Bachelor of Organisational Psychology, HR and Leadership
Bachelor of Organisational Psychology, HR and Leadership
The bachelor's program is a three-year full-time study, with each academic year comprising 60 credits. In total, the bachelor's program consists of 180 credits. The credit system is in accordance with the European ECTS system (European Credit Transfer System).
This program will provide you with a unique combination of organizational psychology, HR expertise, and economic-administrative knowledge. The program qualifies for a variety of positions in small-, medium-, and large-sized companies, including HR, as well as further studies within the field of organizational behavior.
The courses taught are based on international research. Therefore, international perspectives are naturally integrated into many of the themes of this bachelor's program. The subject matter includes effective leadership and facilitation of employees, as well as organizational development, planning, and implementation of change processes. The study provides insight into a range of psychological processes that affect employees. You will learn to carry out typical HR related tasks such as recruitment, training, and conflict resolution. HR analytics, digital assessment tools, and leadership in a digital world are also topics covered in the program.
The program emphases how to enhance work force performance, productivity, and promoting a healthy and sustainable work environment. In a digital world, it is still crucial for managers and HR professionals to understand the interaction between employee competence and performance, as well as what motivates them to make efforts.
The program will give you skills in analytical thinking and problem-solving, as well as fundamental knowledge in economics and administration. The knowledge and skills you acquire will support future leadership and/or HR roles, including leading, organizing, facilitating work tasks.
With the combination this program offers of leadership, HR management, economics, and administration, you will be able to ensure that employee development and strategic changes in the company go hand in hand.
Candidates may do both an internship and go on exchange as part of this program, providing candidates with excellent opportunities to gain relevant business experience and valuable international experience.
The candidate:
- Has broad knowledge of key topics, theories, issues, processes, tools, and methods within the study's fields, including:
- How organizational and psychological processes affect organizational effectiveness.
- How factors such as motivation, human characteristics, cognition, group dynamics, and work environment influence effective job performance.
- How leadership processes influence organizational effectiveness, including cross-cultural perspectives on leadership.
- How planning and management of human resources affect efficiency and results.
- How strategic HR, HR digitalization, principles of sustainability, and international mobility among employees influence life in organizations.
- Workplace rules and law regulations.
- To succeed in this, candidates should also have broad knowledge of the following:
- How businesses are financed, how investments are evaluated, how economic control tools are used, and how financial statements are analyzed.
- How to establish, organize, and manage a business, develop and implement strategies, and market and position products.
- How consumers and producers make choices and are influenced by economic policy, technology, and international framework conditions.
- How businesses conduct their activities in an ethically responsible and sustainable manner.
- Has basic knowledge of statistics and social science research methods, and understands how methodological tools are used in data collection, organization, and analysis.
- Is familiar with the history, practice, and research tradition of the subject area.
The candidate:
- Can apply academic knowledge and theoretical approaches to practical problems to make reasoned choices, including:
- Leadership, effective communication, and management of change processes.
- Recruitment, competence development, and career planning.
- Workplace environment facilitation, including: equality, conflict resolution, sustainability, and inclusion.
- Compliance with laws and regulations in the workplace.
- Can gather, sort, and assess information on personnel-related issues, including analyzing problems using appropriate theories and empirical methods, critically assessing uncertainties in their own analyses, communicating the content of analyses, method choices, results, and assumptions both orally and in writing.
- Can use work-relevant digital tools, techniques, and forms of expression.
- Can assess the consequences of decisions.
The candidate:
- Will cultivate respect for knowledge, scientific, and organizational values, so that they learn the importance of reliability and in research and professional presentations.
- Demonstrates self-awareness, critical thinking, and ethical reflection.
- Can integrate responsibility and sustainability considerations into business models, innovation, practice, and value creation.
- Can work in international environments.
- Can collaborate situationally and cross-functionally.
- Has a basic understanding of IT systems and processes and how they can contribute to business development and value creation.
The Bachelor Programmes at BI Norwegian Business School are, as a rule, composed of 60 credits with common courses (common courses for all or more programmes), 75 credits with programme courses adapted to the individual study program, and 45 credits with elective courses. The minimum course size is 7.5 credits.
It is possible to apply for admission to another bachelor's program after the first year of study. However, it may be necessary to take additional courses.
Students can apply for admission to the studies after the 1st and 2nd year completed at other colleges, provided that the applicant/student has covered the necessary subject areas or undertakes to take the necessary courses in addition. Specific requirements for subject composition are prepared for each study.
To obtain a Bachelor's degree from BI, at least 60 credits must be acquired at BI Norwegian School of Management.
For students who are admitted to full-time multi-year programmes, there is a requirement for study progression in order to be able to move on to the next academic year. The requirements are:
A minimum of 30 credits (50%) must be completed and passed after the first year of study in order to be approved to the 2nd year.
A minimum of 60 credits (50%) must be completed and passed after the second year of study in order to be approved to 3rd year.
Some studies may require higher progression than this. The requirements for study progression for each study program are specified in the study contract. Students who do not satisfy the requirement for study progression are offered a one-year stay to address missing subjects and exams.
Workload
BI Norwegian Business School has set the norm that a full-time student should spend 1,600 hours per year. years of their studies. This means that a course of 7.5 credits will require a work effort of 200 hours including teaching, supervision, self-effort and examination. This is in line with the European standard set out in the Bologna Declaration. One of the key criteria is that credits can only be achieved through completed and passed work with an associated assessment of the performance and the learning outcome in relation to learning goals (= expected learning outcomes).