How we master changes in the working world.

In spring semester 2021, the lecture Human Resource Management was held for the fifth time at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Lucerne.

More and more employers are giving employees an active role in career planning within the organization. Internal job markets help with this. However, there are also losers in these application processes. How employers ideally deal with this.

Employers often ask applicants about their last salary during the recruitment process. A field experiment shows what happens when such salary information is no longer available to employers.

Researchers from Canada and France are addressing the question of how perceived injustice in the workplace leads to harmful work behavior and how this can be avoided.

Job attitudes in terms of space and time - Has the pandemic affected job satisfaction? Do employees in urban areas behave differently to those in the countryside?

To attract suitable employees, companies use employer branding and headhunting. But what are the differences and can employer branding replace the relatively expensive headhunting?

Based on the Swiss HR Barometer data, Dr. Anja Feierabend, Julian Pfrombeck and Laura Schärrer analyze in their article in the trade magazine personalSCHWEIZ how the Corona crisis has affected the job satisfaction of employees in Switzerland.

The study programme «MAS in Humanitarian Leadership», developed by the University of Lucerne in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), moved into its second round with 19 participants last week, on the 17th of March.

The last months have shown that working from home is possible for many jobs. What are consequences for the future workplace? Will the employees return to the office after the pandemic? What is the purpose of the office in future?