<p>A good leadership inside a company is able to improve a company’s performance.</p><p>This thesis tries to highlight the importance of an effective leader for a company and</p><p>how a company is able to enhance their performance by upgrading leadership</p><p>training. Therefore, this work concentrates on the technical industry in Germany to</p><p>find a standardized leader image regarding biographical characteristics, which offers</p><p>the requirements for modulating leadership development methods or rather leadership</p><p>training to it.</p><p>The existing literature gave information about the duties and responsibilities of a</p><p>leading person and the major contributors to an effective leader. Beyond that,</p><p>information has been gathered about the educational background of the leadership</p><p>circles in Germany’s top companies to draw a conclusion about the composition of</p><p>the leadership ranks in Germany’s technical companies. Besides, leadership</p><p>development methods have been analyzed from which leadership training is</p><p>emphasized as the most important for this study.</p><p>In order to gather the missing information, a qualitative research has been conducted,</p><p>giving the information about the standard leaders as a male, studied engineer, who did</p><p>not experience leadership soft skills during his academic education. From this it</p><p>follows, that it is possible to adapt leadership training in terms of knowledge transfer</p><p>of leadership soft skills especially to fill the gaps of the technical audience.</p><p> </p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:miun-11151 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Weyermann, Antje |
| Publisher | Mid Sweden University, Department of Social Sciences |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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