Good Leadership and Leadership Skills (1. Semester: 4 SWS - Master -)

The Kick-Off will take place on 1.10.2025 at 12:30 pm in AW 1-39.

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Introduction

This course is not a lecture in the classical sense. Rather, you are asked to read the material and check with the help of the lessons whether you have understood everything.

For this course you need the book "Fair Management - How to Stop Ruling and Start Leading". The book was published in February 2021.

You can find the recommended timetable in the table below. The date indicates the day on which we will have completed the lesson. The lessons correspond to the chapter headings in the book. The column "pages" contains the corresponding page numbers.

Before we start working on a lesson, you have to read the text in the book carefully.

Each lesson begins with supplementary material for further study. This can be text, illustrations, videos or audio files. Unless these materials are marked "optional", they are relevant to the exam.

After the consolidation, we will begin to answer the questions. A question is only considered to have been answered correctly, and this also applies to the exam, if all check marks are placed correctly.

If you have any difficulties in working out the material, please do not hesitate to take advantage of the consultation hour or send an e-mail.


Timetable

until Lesson pages
1.10.2025 Kick-Off  
8.10.2025 01: Dedicated employees? 1 - 10
15.10.2025 02: Questionable values in business studies 11 - 32
22.10.2025 (digital) 03: Developing a model for good management - part 1 - 33 - 39
29.10.2025 (digital) 04: Developing a model for good management - part 2 - 40 - 72
5.11.2025 (digital) 05: Guidelines of good management 73 - 94
12.11.2025 03 - 05: Evaluation of the digital skills weeks (open questions) 33 - 94
19.11.2025 06: Tasks of good management 95 - 111
26.11.2025 07: Instruments of good management - part 1 - 112 - 139
3.12.2025 08: Instruments of good management - part 2 - 139 - 162
10.12.2025 09: Good management is also a question of decency 163 - 214
17.12.2025 10: Modern management concepts from the perspective of good leadership 215 - 262
7.1.2026 11: Case studies of good management - part 1 - 263 - 281
14.1.2026 12: Case studies of good management - part 2 - // The hope of political support for fair management 281 - 298
21.1.2026 Exercises  

Required reading:

Siebenbrock, Heinz: Fair Management - How to Stop Ruling and Start Leading, Baden-Baden 2021

You can also order free of shipping costs directly from the publisher (Nomos/Tectum Baden-Baden): https://www.nomos-shop.de/tectum/titel/fair-management-id-97745/.

Contemporary personnel management is faced with a number of challenges as work becomes increasingly digital and more flexible in terms of time. ‘New Work’, ‘agile management’ and a genuine culture of dealing with errors have revolutionised personnel management. What becomes especially apparent in this respect is that managers can foster their employees’ commitment to work through their management style.
In this book, Heinz Siebenbrock presents a management model based on trust in and appreciation of employees, which encourages their initiative and enables managers to be both fair and successful in their work. By connecting the model to current concepts of management and by presenting a series of case studies, the author demonstrates how managers can develop their own ethical style of management.

Heinz Siebenbrock is Professor of Economics at Bochum University of Applied Sciences. As a management consultant, he offers practical seminars not just aimed at managers on leadership, strategy and organisation. Siebenbrock is the author of numerous publications on Business Studies.

Examination:

Examination: Written exam in the classroom.

Prof. Dr. Heinz Siebenbrock
Fachbereich Wirtschaft

Sprechstunde:
nach Vereinbarung