Bücher von Matthias Ackermann

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1,3, FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie und Management gemeinnützige GmbH, Hochschulstudienzentrum Freiburg (MBA), course: MBA, language: English, abstract: The idea of globalization has been evolving for centuries and still has not stopped. Visionary enterprises have recognized that competitive advantages can be gained with an effective globalization strategy. Many companies have established recognizable competitive advantages in their industry, but to be part of the global arena they spent many years in learning and implementing their global business models. These global activities can include developing strategic alliances with overseas development and marketing partners, off shoring and outsourcing of their product and service development process, moving operations to other countries, and acquiring companies.As a result of globalization the competition for global acting companies has changed markedly. The increasing complexity of products and processes, increased environmental and market dynamics, shorter product life cycles, and increasing customer expectations are just some of the current trends. These developments affect the entire organization with all its strategic and operational activities. Thus, the quality manage-ment (QM) of global acting companies faces new challenges were established methods and approaches often reach their limits.

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Management Styles, FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie und Management gemeinnützige GmbH, Hochschulstudienzentrum Freiburg, language: English, abstract: This assignment discusses the topic ¿leadership effectiveness in global teams¿. It argues in detail the challenges the leaders of global teams have and which competencies are needed to fulfil the job of a global team leader. Content is also how leadership effectiveness can be measured and evaluated as well as the basic requirements on organizations. This assignment does not include the organizational specifics and changes by ¿globalizing¿ a company.At the beginning key words in context of Leadership Effectiveness in global Teams are defined in chapter two. Chapter three includes theoretical models of leadership effectiveness, effective global leadership, measurement and evaluation of leadership effectiveness, and the organizational requirements to develop global team leaders. At the end a conclusion and outlook is given.

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3, FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie und Management gemeinnützige GmbH, Hochschulstudienzentrum Freiburg, language: English, abstract: The recession in 2008/09 illustrated for some companies the weakness in the marketplace that led to lower company valuations, increased business failures, outsourced businesses of companies, and sell offs of noncore business units. But if the organizations think forward they find opportunities that were not available when business was booming, such as expanding their company through acquisition. Eventually companies always need to look forward to stay competitive, capture market share, and be the first to innovate a new product or service (Mondy 2014, p.115).Organizations use strategic planning as a constantly changing and ongoing process in order to find a competitive advantage. They see the need to diversify and increase variety of goods that are made or sold. At other times companies have the requirement to downsize in response of the external environment or the strategic plan sees integration as their driving force, what means the unified control of a number of successive or similar operations. Therefor strategic planning endeavours to position the organization regarding external environment. Thus strategic planning at all levels of organization is important (Mondy 2014, p.115). To anticipate future business and environmental demands on the company, strategic planning in human resource (HR) is necessary to meet the personnel requirements dictated by those conditions (Lengnick-Hall 1988, p. 457). Hereby the strategic management process is used to answer a central question in HR strategy planning: ¿How to develop a human resource strategic plan?