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Pascal Schlegel
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Dr.
Last Name
Schlegel
First name
Pascal
Email
pascal.schlegel@unisg.ch
Phone
+41 71 224 71 22
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PublicationKMU-Führungskompetenz / SME Leadership SkillsThe booklet «SME Leadership Skills – A framework approach for leadership and reflection in everyday business life» is now available in its 4th edition. The focus of the booklet is on the conceptual examination of SME leadership. The authors do not aim to impart tips and tricks for clever management tactics, but rather the much more profound competence of the constant adaptation and intervention of entrepreneurial personalities. You, and that really means you, deserve a compliment for your tireless entrepreneurial action and reflection. You continuously improve the impact consistency of company-wide activities and all stakeholders – in your diversity in terms of attitude, willingness and action. Everyday business life is characterised by leadership. The fundamental thesis here is: leadership involves (reflective) perception – communicating – deciding. It is a continuous interplay of the three elements of leadership and impact competence of entrepreneurial personalities to ensure the ability of SMES to develop. The four authors, Urs Fueglistaller, Frank Halter, Alex Fust, and Pascal Schlegel, work/worked at the Swiss Institute of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises at the University of St. Gallen and have been committed to the interests of SMEs from both research and practice-oriented perspectives for many years.Type: book
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PublicationÄsthetische Unternehmensführung - Von der Schönheit der Beziehungen zwischen Führungskräften und Mitarbeitenden( 2024)Aesthetic leadership is concerned with how managers shape interactions with their employees. In doing so, the manner of interpersonal interaction is illuminated. The focus is on building pleasant social relationships by promoting positive feelings, which are evoked in employees by the aesthetically designed interactions, while avoiding negative feelings. Some organizational research has acknowledged and investigated the existence and relevance of aesthetics. However, publications to date have been limited primarily to the visual and materialistic components of aesthetics. Much less attention has already been paid to the other four human senses. Occasionally, approaches have been developed to promote aesthetics in the interpersonal sphere as well. Concrete recommendations for corporate practice are still lacking. Aesthetic leadership has a moral value and cannot be copied, since the process itself has to be gone through. It thus offers sustainable competitive advantages. In order to provide an instruction manual for the conscious integration of aesthetics in everyday business life, Grounded Theory was applied. As part of the data collection, individual interviews were conducted with employees who told their stories of formative aesthetic experiences of both a positive and negative nature. In order to dive even deeper into the subject area, job shadowings were conducted with entrepreneurial personalities. I was allowed to accompany them during several days in their entire professional everyday life and to interview the employees concerned in order to find out their view on specific aesthetic actions of the leader. The data analysis brought to light 199 first-order codes, which impressively show how aesthetic actions can have an effect on employees. Employee-centeredness, communication and the attitude of the entrepreneurial personality represent the superordinate categories. In a fourth, superordinate category, the effects of the aesthetic dimension in leadership on the company and on the private lives of the employees are presented.Type: doctoral thesis