Dr. Arend Oetker Chair of Business Psychology and Leadership

Overview

Supporters

  • Dr. Arend Oetker

Team

  • Prof. Dr. Timo Meynhardt (Chairholder)
  • Christina Stockmann-Zipfel (Team Assistant)
  • Clemens Söhngen (Research Associate)

Courses

  • Human Resource Management
  • Leadership Experience
  • Learning from a Classic: Peter Drucker
  • Leipzig Leadership Model
  • Organizational Behavior

Research Areas

  • Leadership and management
  • Public value management
  • Value creation for the common good
  • Competency diagnostics
  • Competency management
  • Self-organization and management

Network

  • Bundesagentur für Arbeit
  • Center for Leadership and Values in Society, University of St. Gallen
  • Drucker School of Management
  • Ernst & Young GmbH
  • Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
  • FC Bayern Munich
  • Hochschule Fresenius, University of Applied Sciences
  • IF International Forum Design GmbH
  • LEAD | Mercator Capacity Building Center for Leadership & Advocacy
  • Leuphana University of Lüneburg
  • Peter Drucker Society Europe
  • RB Leipzig
  • Sociological Institute, University of Zürich
  • Urton Music
  • XING AG
The Leipzig Leadership Model Leipzig Leadership Coaching Coaching program "New Leipzig Talents" Public Value Atlas Germany Public Value Atlas Switzerland The Public Value of RB Leipzig (Study in German language) The Public Value of 1. FC Lok Leipzig (in German language)

Who contributes leads.

Prof. Dr. Timo Meynhardt
Holder of the Dr. Arend Oetker Chair of Business Psychology and Leadership

What we do

The Dr. Arend Oetker Chair of Business Psychology and Leadership focuses its research and teaching on state-of-the-art management practices and current issues in business psychology. Our main topics are Public Value Management (Gemeinwohl), Leadership & Management as well as Competency Diagnostics & Management. The HHL Coaching Program for students is based on our HHL competency profile. Our work builds on holistic thinking in the tradition of Wilhelm Wundt, founder of psychology and former teacher at Leipzig commercial college and Peter Drucker, father of modern management.

Now, more than ever, managers are supposed to socially legitimize corporate decisions. Innovation and growth require an environment of trust and appreciation. In this respect, we analyze social-psychological conditions and develop new approaches to personnel and business management.

The chair’s public value research is dedicated to the question of how an organization contributes to society with its core business and how this knowledge can play a role in corporate decision making. Today, management tools, such as the Public Value Scorecard© are applied in various organizations to account for their social value and to deduct strategic alternatives. A core project in public value research is the Public Value Atlas (GemeinwohlAtlas) which, for the first time, measures the societal contribution of best known companies and public administrations.
To enhance transfer of knowledge, we are in active dialog with top researchers and research institutions as well as with practice partners from industry and management consultancies.

In recognition for the quality of teaching, chairholder Prof. Dr. Timo Meynhardt was awarded the HHL Best Lecturer Award 2017 as well as the Award for the Most Innovative Teaching Approach at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management 2022.

Dr. Arend Oetker
Chair Donor

Responsible and sustainable leadership has always been important. The psychological component has become increasingly relevant in light of the challenges of current economic developments as well as changing political and societal framework conditions.

About Dr. Arend Oetker

Dr. Arend Oetker was born in March 1939. From 1962 to 1966, he studied business administration and political science in Hamburg, Berlin, Cologne and marketing at Harvard Business School. He received his doctorate (Dr. rer. pol.) from the University of Cologne in 1966.

Arend Oetker is Managing Partner of Dr. Arend Oetker Holding and a member of the Supervisory Board of Leipziger Messe. He is a shareholder of the food company Hero AG and an honorary member of the Supervisory Board of KWS Saat SE.

Until June 13, 2019, Arend Oetker was President of the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), to which he remains associated as Honorary President. He is a member of the Presidium of the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations (BDA) and an honorary member of the Presidium of the Federation of German Industries (BDI).

As a lover of music and contemporary art, Arend Oetker supported the founding of the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Leipzig and is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Leipzig Bach Archive Foundation and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Musikleben. Among other things, he supported the renovation of St. Peter’s Church in Lübeck.

In 2007, he was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Arend Oetker is married and has five children.

FAZ Interview: Prof. Dr. Timo Meynhardt and Dr. Arend Oetker (in German)

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