Management & Administration
Spot legal risks earlier and make better-informed business decisions. This programme connects the foundations of Swiss business law with practical cases involving contracts, companies, liability and commercial disputes. Develop useful checking routines and learn to work more effectively with qualified legal advisers.
Request informationYOUR PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE
For individuals & organisationsWe agree a start that fits your professional and personal commitments.
OSAM certificates: according to your starting level and learning goals. Company group programmes are usually planned in days or half-days.
Synchronous teaching. Both formats include the OSAM platform for course materials and organisational information.
From an eduQua-certified institution.
An individual quotation confirms the programme, delivery format and applicable fees.
Highly personalised teaching with experienced practitioners working at a high professional level.
FROM KNOWLEDGE TO CAPABILITY
For business owners, managers, self-employed professionals and people working in administration, purchasing, sales or project management who make commercial decisions without a legal background.
YOUR LEARNING JOURNEY
These modules form the core programme. Where useful, we refine the emphasis, examples and learning activities to reflect your professional context, starting point and objectives.
Distinguish statutory requirements, contractual arrangements and internal company rules. Use a business scenario to separate facts, assumptions and unanswered questions, then develop a clear checking process. Practise using Fedlex and official guidance, identifying the documents and specialist input needed to support a well-informed decision.
Explore how a contract is formed and why offer, acceptance, form and authority matter. Review extracts covering deliverables, price, payment terms, duration, termination and liability. Identify inconsistent or ambiguous clauses and turn concerns into precise questions for negotiation and professional legal review.
Compare sales, works and mandate relationships through realistic customer and supplier cases. Connect contract documents and general terms with questions about delayed or defective performance. Organise evidence and correspondence, recognise when deadlines require checking and prepare a structured response to an emerging contractual problem.
Compare sole proprietorships, partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations in terms of organisation, funding and responsibility. Formation and collaboration examples connect the commercial register, articles of association, signing authority and shareholder agreements. Build a practical overview of responsibilities, decision-making powers and records for your own working context.
Consider the handling of customer and employee data and relationships with external service providers. Cases connect confidentiality agreements, outsourced data processing and organisational responses to data incidents. Distinguish trade marks, copyright, designs and patents, and recognise when using, protecting or sharing work requires specialist clarification.
Explore where business management meets employment law: the employment contract, workplace instructions, personality rights and the end of an employment relationship. Use employee scenarios to prepare conversations and supporting records carefully. Identify the questions that belong with HR or a legal specialist and how clear responsibilities support better decisions.
Structure your response to overdue invoices, disputed debts and financial warning signs. Distinguish liquidity problems, capital loss and overindebtedness as separate issues to investigate, with an introduction to enforcement, restructuring, composition and bankruptcy. A case illustrates how management, accounting and external advisers share information and document urgent checks.
Work through a connected business case from a draft agreement to a disagreement. Compare negotiation, mediation and court proceedings as possible routes, identifying the information needed to choose appropriately. For cross-border relationships, recognise questions about applicable law and jurisdiction. Finish with a personal checklist that supports your everyday business practice.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND YOUR PROGRESS
Educational direction, subject expertise and adult learning support. Your final trainer assignment is confirmed in your proposal.
DIRECTOR’S PERSPECTIVE
Managing Director
Simon Pawolleck provides OSAM’s overall direction. The focus is on relevant skills, a clear learning structure and personal support that connects professional ambitions with practical progress.
EXPERT’S PERSPECTIVE
Lawyer · OSAM expert network
Carmen Kiavila is presented as a relevant expert from the OSAM network. The course trainer will be confirmed for your programme. Subject expertise supports practical cases, focused feedback and applications related to your working context.
ADULT LEARNING & ANDRAGOGY
Head of Adult Learning
Federal Diploma of Higher Education in Adult Education
Sandrine Mélé oversees the adult learning approach: coherent progression, active participation and learning methods that take account of prior experience. She supports a structured, practical and human approach to developing competence.
Active at a high professional level, selected against demanding criteria.
Developing the skills of their employees with OSAM.
An experience centred on the people who learn with us.
Personal career goals. Shared organisational priorities.
SERI / SEFRIeduQua-certified institution. Federal qualifications listed by SERI in selected pathways.
TRUST, BUILT THROUGH EXPERIENCE
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LEARNERS’ VOICES
OSAM Google review rating
As displayed on the OSAM website, 4 November 2026.View Google reviews“Patient teaching and very engaging lessons.”
“Excellent quality and personalised practical scenarios.”
GOOD TO KNOW
For business owners, managers, self-employed professionals and people working in administration, purchasing, sales or project management who make commercial decisions without a legal background. The programme is available to private individuals and organisations, including company teams. OSAM welcomes learners living or working in Switzerland as well as international participants joining live online.
OSAM is an eduQua-certified continuing education institution. An OSAM certificate documents the learning agreed for your programme; eduQua is a quality label for the institution, not federal recognition of every individual course.
OSAM’s work connects individual professional development with the needs of companies in Switzerland and internationally. Client references and learner reviews below offer a practical view of that work.
You develop skills you can apply in real situations, with guidance from experienced practitioners and access to learning materials on the OSAM platform. The programme focuses on these outcomes:
Yes. We start with the established programme and refine the emphasis, practical cases and learning support where useful. Adjustments take account of the individual or company’s professional context, existing skills and goals. The agreed programme is confirmed before enrolment; federal examination requirements remain binding where applicable.
For the OSAM certificate, contact us to review your current level, prior experience and objectives. We will confirm the appropriate entry requirements and any recommended preparation.
The core programme is designed for people without legal training. OSAM discusses your professional experience, goals and suitable starting point with you. Admission requirements for a more advanced certificate pathway are agreed during your consultation.
Swiss business law is the main focus. Cross-border relationships can be included where relevant to your professional context. The jurisdictions and specialist topics to be addressed are agreed before the programme starts.
No. This programme leads to an OSAM certificate from an eduQua-certified continuing education institution. It is not a Swiss federal professional qualification, a university law degree or admission to legal practice. Your offer sets out the conditions for earning the certificate.
Yes. Appropriate, anonymised documents and typical company situations can inform the exercises by agreement. The programme develops practical understanding and professional judgement; it does not replace individual legal advice on a specific dispute.
YOUR CAREER, IN PERSPECTIVE
Depending on your experience and qualifications, this subject can support development in the following professional directions.
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Tell us where you want to go. Together, we will define the learning journey that gets you there.
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