Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 15 credits / 22,5 HE credits
A good leadership inside a company is able to improve a company’s performance.
This thesis tries to highlight the importance of an effective leader for a company and
how a company is able to enhance their performance by upgrading leadership
training. Therefore, this work concentrates on the technical industry in Germany to
find a standardized leader image regarding biographical characteristics, which offers
the requirements for modulating leadership development methods or rather leadership
training to it.
The existing literature gave information about the duties and responsibilities of a
leading person and the major contributors to an effective leader. Beyond that,
information has been gathered about the educational background of the leadership
circles in Germany’s top companies to draw a conclusion about the composition of
the leadership ranks in Germany’s technical companies. Besides, leadership
development methods have been analyzed from which leadership training is
emphasized as the most important for this study.
In order to gather the missing information, a qualitative research has been conducted,
giving the information about the standard leaders as a male, studied engineer, who did
not experience leadership soft skills during his academic education. From this it
follows, that it is possible to adapt leadership training in terms of knowledge transfer
of leadership soft skills especially to fill the gaps of the technical audience.
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