While occupational transitions increase, employees experience insecurity with regard to their individual employment situation to a much larger degree than in the past. The formal guarantee of a workplace exists no longer, or else only to a lesser degree. Society will have to respond to these...

The Solution-Focused Approach developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg has been well established across many areas of society. In this book, the practical uses of solution-focused work in companies and management are shown. By means of conceptual contributions, as well as many case...

Seit einigen Jahren beschaeftigen sich Wissenschaftler und Praktiker mit den neuen Herausforderungen fuer Personalabteilungen und der Frage, unter welchen Bedingungen sich die Personalabteilung von einer operativ ausgerichteten Supportfunktion zu einem gleichwertigen strategischen Partner...

Seit Jahren sind in Wissenschaft und Praxis verschiedene Managementkonzepte in der Diskussion. Einige Konzepte etablieren sich dauerhaft, waehrend andere nach kurzer Zeit verschwinden. Unklar sind bislang die Gruende fuer ihr (fehlendes) Etablieren. An diesem Forschungsdefizit setzt die Arbeit...

Erheblich verschaerfte und dynamisierte Wettbewerbsbedingungen veranlassen Organisationen zu einer verstaerkten Dezentralisierung und Vermarktlichung. Allerdings zeigt sich dabei nicht nur vereinzelt ein mangelnder Erfolg von Change-Maßnahmen. Konzentriert auf Prinzipien von Berechnung und...

The actual dissertation broadens the already existing literature of film subsidization by asking if single institutions reach their self affixed goals, if there are existing differences in achievement of objectives and if single methods of direct film funding are more effective than others. A...

Target Group Monitoring is a regional approach to generate data to cover adequately the information needs of labour market actors. Approaches from different European regions are presented in this book, applied onto migrants as a target group of labour market politics. Furthermore, the central...

The selection and evaluation of consultants, consultancies, and consulting services belong to probably the most critical issues in management consulting research. However, the research in these areas is still sparse and does not yet reflect their importance in an adequate manner. Additionally,...

Aspects of internationalization found widespread interest in academic research. However, research attention has largely focussed on prominent large firms. Compared to research on multinational enterprises the state of knowledge about the internationalization of entrepreneurial companies is...

Based on insights from recent career research, the present study analyses the correlation between individual characteristics of university and polytechnics graduates and early career outcomes, and delineates the impact of higher education, as a key element within social structure. Departing from...