University Master's Degree in People Management and Organizational Behavior
Edition 2025-26
The labor market is facing a profound change, not only because of greater digitalization as the future of work advances, but also because we are facing a new labor scenario that welcomes the birth of new professions and opportunities that respond to global challenges.
Artificial intelligence, the need for continuous training, the convergence of different generations in workspaces, talent management, knowledge transfer to develop skills and the ability to contribute and recognize people are the basis of our leadership model.
Enhancing the unique value of people and their talent in a professional environment must be the key strategy of organizations. Today more than ever, people must be at the center of any organization.
Managing people and leading change involves managing talent. In this university master’s degree you will learn to discover the differential value of the People Management function from an integral vision, with a rigorous and comprehensive approach to the company. Throughout this training you will build, through a journey and deepening in the various strategic axes of the company, providing them with knowledge, techniques, methodologies and tools to be agents of change and generate new professional experiences.
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FORMAT
IN-PERSON
CREDITS
60 ECTS
START
SEPTEMBER 2025
HOURS
Monday to Thursday from 18:30 to 21:30
INTERNSHIP
YES
LOCATION
UFV CAMPUS, MADRID
COMPANIES ARE PEOPLE
AIMED AT THOSE PEOPLE WHO..
- Want to develop their professional career in the field of people management.
- Lead and manage talent in organizations.
- Want to assume a more strategic role and promote change.
- Want to respond to today’s challenges in people management.
- Are interested in transforming the meaning we give to work and how the people who make up the company experience it.
- Want to learn to make decisions on talent management based on agile and analytical methodologies, from practice, experience and personal experience.
IF YOU SEE YOURSELF REFLECTED, THIS PROGRAM IS FOR YOU!
TITLE OF UNIVERSITY DEGREE
University Master’s Degree in People Management and Organizational Behavior
CENTERS WHERE THE UNIVERSITY DEGREE IS TAUGHT
Faculty of Law, Business and Government
FIELD OF KNOWLEDGE
Social sciences, social work, labour relations and human resources, sociology, political science and international relations
FIELD OF KNOWLEDGE
Law and Legal Specializations
TYPE OF TEACHING
In-person
LANGUAGES IN WHICH THE UNIVERSITY DEGREE IS TAUGHT
Spanish
TOTAL NUMBER OF ECTS
60
SPECIALIZATIONS
Not applicable
NUMBER OF NEW ADMISSION PLACES OFFERED
60
Teresa De Dios Alija
PhD.
Director of the University Master's Degree
Álvaro Pérez Araújo
University Professor of Human Resources
Ana Villalba
Iberia Learning & Leadership Development
Accenture Director
Antonio Iturmendi Mac-Lellan
UFV Undergraduate and Postgraduate Professor
David Aguado
Professor UAM & Senior Researcher, Institute for Knowledge Engineering
Elena Bernabéu Brotóns
Vice Dean of Academic Management and Quality of the Faculty of Education and Psychology UFV
Elena Campón Laserna
Organizational Psychologist. Executive Coach & Human Talent Development Consultant. Associate Professor UFV.
Enrique Gómez Castillo
HR Director at Thales Defensa España
Gloria Claudio Quiroga
Professor of Economics
Jane Rodríguez del Tronco
Trainer and Coach, expert in Leadership, Communication and Personal Branding.
Founder and CEO of The Bold Choice
Jesús Alarcón
Neobis Secretary General
Jesús Paniagua Calzado
Workmeaning Director
José Luis Parada Rodríguez
Professor of Humanities.
Director of the UFV Chair of Circular Markets - Madrid City Council
Julio Borja Rodríguez Zamarreño
Senior Manager SW & Process Transformation at BBVA
Manuel Olivares de la Cerda
Managing Partner GIC Training & Development. Negotiation, Impact and Influence.
Mara Sánchez Benito
UFV Talent Director
Marta Saavedra Ortiz
Talent Attraction and Recruitment Manager at ManpowerGroup Spain & People Business Partner Talent Solutions.
Marta Montojo Arteaga
Director of the Careers Department
Sergio Travieso Teniente
Compensation and Benefits Manager
Sonia García Merino
HR Specialist
Applicant Profile
University graduates
We are looking for excellent students who, in addition to training and responding to the main challenges of organizations, want to become people and professionals with international vision, talent, intellectual curiosity, vocation of service, responsibility, oriented to the achievement of the common good of the global society.
Required documentation:
- University Degree
- Academic Transcript
- Application Form
- Valid DNI/NIE/Passport
- Passport Size Photograph
- Curriculum Vitae
- English Level B2
Additionally, the following will be valued:
- Other languages from a B1 level
- Training internships in companies from 150 hours
Admissions Process
Start the admission process to the University Master’s Degree 100%.
Complete your data and provide the required documentation through our platform. To start the process it is not necessary to have completed your undergraduate studies.
Once the documentation has been validated by the admission committee, we will assign you an advisor to arrange a personal interview with the program management.
If you are admitted, you must pay the reservation fee within fifteen working days of notification of admission to the program. The amount of the reservation fee will be deducted from the total price to be paid at the time of registration.
The reservation fee will only be refunded in the event that the University Master’s Degree program is suspended, or if the legal requirements for admission are not met. In the case of international students, when the student does not meet the legal criteria for obtaining a visa.
In order to enroll in a UFV FDEG University Master’s Degree program, the candidate must prove that he/she has completed his/her undergraduate studies 10 days before the start of classes.
If the student has not completed his or her undergraduate studies by the first day of the month in which classes begin, the UFV will reimburse the amount paid to reserve a place in the University Master’s Degree program (subject to official documentation).
International students
In the event that the qualification that enables access to the University Master’s Degree or Doctorate is issued in a country that does not belong to the EHEA, it will be necessary to legalize the university degree and transcript, which involves carrying out a series of procedures in order to verify the legal effectiveness of both the institution that issues them, as well as the studies completed. The legalization of academic documents is governed by the international agreements signed for such purposes between the country issuing the document and the country before which the authenticity of the documents is to be accredited.
The documents must be legalized through diplomatic channels, for which you will have to present them at the following instances:
- The Ministry of Education of the country of origin.
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country where such documents were issued
Universidad Francisco de Vitoria is the University focused on people. For this reason, we value the different circumstances, aptitudes, skills and values of the students who wish to be part of our Institution.
Therefore, to pursue your University Master’s Degree studies at the Faculty of Law, Business and Government of the UFV, we offer you a wide range of scholarships and grants that recognize the academic and personal merits of our students, ensuring that financial difficulties are not an obstacle to study with us.
TOMAS MORO SCHOLARSHIP
We are looking for excellent university graduates with a vocation for service who want to be part of a community of professionals who contribute to and inspire change and the positive transformation of society in the areas of Law, Business and Government.
If you are Administrative and Service Staff /Teaching Staff or UFV Collaborator. Submit a candidate to the 2024 Call for Applications for the Tomás Moro Scholarships.
Career Opportunities
This program prepares you to face positions related to management, talent deployment, professional development and training of people in business, corporate and institutional environments.
It is an ambitious and demanding training that focuses on the value of the person as a key element in the organization. Some of the most demanded professional opportunities:
- Direction and Management of Human Resources.
- Consulting in change management in organizations.
- Director of Talent Development.
- Information Technology Recruiter.
- Selection of people.
- Training and career development.
- People Analytics, agile methodologies in decision making. Design of structures and strategies
- Internal communication and work environment.
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability.
- Labor Relations: hiring, conflicts, negotiation, diversity, inclusion, conciliation. Prevention of occupational hazards.
- Development of policies on remuneration, compensation and benefits, performance, performance and recognition.
- Research on talent and organizational behavior.
- Innovation and entrepreneurship in the field of organizational talent
COMMON TRANSVERSAL EXPERIENCE
We create community from the very beginning, understanding that team involvement is essential to achieve positive results within the group itself.
To achieve this, we propose an integrated itinerary parallel to the development of the course, in which you can go through different stages and enjoy activities that expand and complement your university Master’s Degree experience, with the aim of getting students to think beyond the simple day-to-day business, the here and now.
In this journey, the main objective is a radical change of approach, proposing a different and meaningful professional performance.
CAMINO DE SANTIAGO
September 25-28, 2025
As a first milestone, you will share with your classmates from your University Master’s Degree and other graduate programs of the Faculty of Law, Business and Government (FDEG) of the UFV several days of the Camino de Santiago, which will include two team coaching sessions
TRANSVERSAL PROJECT
In order to enhance and reinforce the students’ capacity for work, adaptation and integration, a cross-cutting program has been designed, common to all the on-site Master’s programs of the UFV Faculty of Law, Business and Government, in which, through the business case methodology, you will develop your executive and resolution skills from a multidisciplinary team perspective (collaborative attitude and aptitude).
This project will be tutored by professionals from the sector, and will be developed throughout the academic year, ending with the integrated presentation of the result of the case before a tribunal formed by members of the faculty and the company or institution that raises it.
COACHING SESSIONS
The student will have the opportunity to receive support sessions through individual and group coaching sessions and professional mentoring provided by professionals in the field of dialogic coaching.
WHY THIS UNIVERSITY MASTER'S DEGREE?
CHANGE AGENT IN ORGANIZATIONS: THE NEW MANAGER
To train a new profile of people development managers who, with a focus on the common good, will be agents of change in organizations, contributing positive value to society.
The training itinerary is based on a humanistic and multidisciplinary approach that considers the dimension of purpose/meaning as the key to talent management, in companies that put people at the center of strategic and operational decisions and generates a perspective, integrated knowledge and global vision of the company and the person.
PERSON, PROFESSION AND ORGANIZATION
Professional development requires a coherent, person-centered action plan that takes into account the individuals context and allows them to identify their vocation.
Detecting the innate capacity, motivation, areas of improvement and opportunity of each student is the starting point to develop the talent of each person. For this purpose, and as part of the training, we integrate a personalized itinerary of Dialogic Coaching sessions. The training itinerary covers three areas of action in relation to:
1. The person: Prepares those who work with people in dynamic, demanding and unstable business environments, to manage processes under the premise of person-centeredness
2. The profession: Facilitates the development of a generation of professionals who, thanks to the identification of their sensitivity and professional vocation and the belief in the centrality of the person in organizations, can achieve relevant changes, imbued with purpose and talent, in the business world
3. The organization: Generates the possibility of being proactive and proposing effective changes in the evolution of business organizations (intra-entrepreneurship) towards servant leadership and the common good, in relation to all stakeholders (management, employees, customers, shareholders, society)
NETWORKING
Generating and expanding a network of professional contacts is an essential part of professional career development. To this end, as part of your training, the program includes a series of meetings with active professionals and experts in different areas of knowledge in which, in addition to expanding your agenda of opportunities, spaces will be established to discover new developments, trends and incorporate complementary points of view that will help you understand the current labor context.
PRACTICAL, ACTIVE AND EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING
The faculty, made up of professors and active professionals, are committed to creating an academically excellent, demanding and rigorous space in which the methodologies employed provide added value for students when acquiring the knowledge and skills that they will later replicate in their day-to-day work in the companies:
Problem Based Learning (PBL)
Learning by Doing
Flipped Learning
Agile Learning (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, OKR’s)
THE BEST AGREEMENTS AND PARTNERSHIPS
This University Master’s Degree designed by the UFV offers an innovative proposal for the sector, as it takes a look at the meaning of work in organizations.
Currently, companies are looking for professionals like those trained at the UFV, since they bring a differential value to their teams.
