New Leadership for employees working from home

Seminar paper from the year 2023 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Employee Motivation, grade: 1.3, AKAD University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart, language: English, abstract: The goal of this thesis is to explore New Work, New leadership, as well as Home/Mobile Office and answer the modal goal: How Leadership change to manage employees in the home/mobile office. First, the terms home office, leadership as well as New Work and New Leadership are defined to create a theoretical basis. I will then explain which new methods managers can use to manage employees in the home office and which tools are necessary for this. After this, the theoretical methods will be reviewed with a mini survey, in which the previously explained areas were evaluated in a current environment in order to determine the extent to which the methods are applied in the current working environment. This assignment concludes with an answer of the modal goal and a description of the research results, as well as a discussion, critical reflection and an outlook.

Home office, mobile office, teleworking, and hybrid teams. The coronavirus pandemic has changed the world of work significantly and for the long term. Within a very short time, a majority of employees have been transferred from company offices to their home offices, which many companies continued even after the pandemic. However, this has not only been a major change for employees, who had to get used to it as quickly as possible. The home office has also brought some challenges for management and executives that need to be faced. Because of the reduced direct employee contact and physical distance, employees have to be managed from a distance.1 But how can employee management also be conducted in the home office and how Leadership change because of this new Situation? To answer this question, I have dealt in the following assignment with the problem: What is New Work, New Leadership and home/mobile office? as well as the modal goal: How Leadership change to manage employees in the home/mobile office?