Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin | LEIZAnnual Report April 2014

Good leadership and right decision-making

are the most important success factors for a rich life.

From my experience as an entrepreneur,

I know that leadership excellence requires

much more than a competent application

of business knowledge.

The Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin | LEIZ is sponsored by the Karl Schlecht Stiftung (KSG)

Prof. h.c. Dipl.-Ing. Karl Schlecht | founder of the Putzmeister Group, President Karl-Schlecht Foundation, and benefactor of the Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin | LEIZ

Good leadership and right decision-making

are the most important success factors for a rich life.

From my experience as an entrepreneur,

I know that leadership excellence requires

much more than a competent application

of business knowledge.

The Leadership Excellence Institute | LEIZ is a platform for

interdisciplary, intersectoral, and intercultural research, teach-

ing, and executive education on the challenges of leadership

excellence in a globalized world.

The LEIZ contributes to: Governance Economics, Organisation

Theory, Business Ethics, Psychology of Ethical Decision-Mak-

ing, and Leadership Ethics. It refers to normativity as an orga-

nizational governance challenge resulting from different social

interests and expectations concerning the integrity of leader-

ship decisions. Linked to that, it focuses on challenges of trans-

cultural management based on the ability to develop global

inter-organizational relationships. Leadership excellence, in this

sense, can be understood as mastery of leaders to navigate

confidently in this global system of transparency, inclusion and

integrity, and to take the right decisions.

The LEIZ was formally inaugurated on April 12th, 2013 as an

expertise center on leadership at Zeppelin University.

the institute

ConneCtion bet ween

ReseaRCh and PRaCtiCe

The starting as well as reference point of LEIZ is practice-orien-

ted research and the development of solutions for real societal

problems. Its academic research is connected with continuing

education, expert fora, and business services, which in turn

provide new inspiration for academic research. Its approach is

interdisciplinary, intesectoral, and international.

Two academic chairs belong to LEIZ. Their responsibilities lie

in developing and realizing teaching, research, and practice-

oriented activities of the institute. The Chair Institutional Eco-

nomics Organisational Governance, Integrity Management

& Transcultural Leadership is held by Prof. Dr. Josef Wieland

who is also the director of LEIZ. The Chair for Psychology and

Leadership Ethics will be appointed by autumn 2014.

Leadership excellence as a

motivational competence depends on

a continuous learning process

for developing personal integrity,

transcultural competence, and character.Prof. Dr. Josef Wieland | Director LEIZ

PRojeCts

Development of an organizational control instrument for

for evaluating the effectiveness of CSR measures; expert

interviews and survey research among 30 50 firms; Client:

Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs; External fun-

ding: 96.000 ; Start: January 2014; Duration: 11 months.

Graduate School Ethics and Responsible Leadership to-

gether with the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics; External

funding: 259.200 ; Start: April 2014; Duration: 36 months.

Conception and development of a Transcultural Profiler:

An instrument for developing transcultural competence

and leadership in organizations; External funding: 25.000 ;

Start: March 2013; Duration: 13 months.

Transcultural Caravan: A study on success factors of contem-

porary global cooperation between economics, politics, and

society along transcultural places; Aims: 1) Analysis of expe-

riences collected at these historical or contemporary places

of transcultural cooperation; 2) Development of a virtual ca-

ravan with global network partners.

Shared Value, Corporate Social Responsibility, and competi-

tiveness of firms.

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GRaduate sChool

ethiCs and ResPonsible leadeRshiP

In January 2014, the Leadership Excellence Institute Zeppelin

LEIZ and the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics (WZGE)

jointly established a Graduate School on Ethics and Respon-

sible Leadership. The discourse and doctoral platform is spon-

sored by the Karl Schelcht Foundation (KSG) and supports mo-

tivated and internationally oriented doctoral candidates who

delve into questions of good management in global contexts.

The program developed by Prof. Dr. Dr. Karl Homann (LMU,

Mnchen), Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. h. c. Christian Kirchner (HU, Berlin),

Prof. Dr. Andreas Suchanek (HHL Leipzig), and Prof. Dr. Josef

Wieland (ZU, Friedrichshafen), offers a unique platform for re-

search in the field of economic and business ethics. It connects

specific qualification of the graduate students with the exper-

tise of leading business ethicists and encompasses practical

fora, project studies, and lectures.

The objective of this school is to compile theoretically grounded

and practically relevant contributions for responsible manage-

ment in global competition and thereby shape the discourse in

academia, corporations, and the general public.

teaChinG 2013/2014

Bachelor Corporate Management & Economics

Prof. Dr. Josef Wieland

Business Ethics & Leadership Excellence

Compliance & Integrity Management

Global Ethics | Between Economy and Politics

Zeppelin Projekt: Fachliche Perspektiven | Stdte

Andreas Heck & Murali Nair Rajendran

Values Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Corporate Governance

Master Corporate Management & Economics, Communication & Cultural Management,

and Politics, Administration & International Relations

Dr. Angelica V. Marte

Diversity Management

Leadership A | B

Dr. Angelica V. Marte & Murali Nair Rajendran

International & Intercultural Management

PhD-Program

Prof. Dr. Josef Wieland

Models of economic and business ethics

tRansfeR to PRaCtiCe

Executive Education

Executive Master Intersectoral Leadership and Governance: An

executive program for the next generation of top management

in and between the market, the state, and the civil society

Start: September 2014; more information: zu.de/intersek

EMBA Compliance Management and Corporate Governance

in cooperation with Lake Constance Business School. An exe-

cutive study program for Chinese young leaders from Daimler

North East Asia, Beijing and for European Young Leaders from

Daimler Financial Services, Stuttgart

Master Classes on Confucian Entrepreneurship with the World

Ethics Institute Beijing (WEIB)

Expert Fora

Forum Compliance and Integrity (FCI). A nationally and interna-

tionally recognized council for the development of standards of

Integrity and Compliance Management

Forum Transcultural Caravan (in planning)

Business Services

LEIZ Lecture Series on Leadership and Moral Character

Values Management & Leadership Toolbox: practically appli-

cable instruments of values management

LEIZ Transcultural Profiler. An instrument for transcultural com-

petence and leadership development in organizations

Coaching of leaders and management teams

Organizational and leadership development (tailor-made)

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team

Murali Nair Rajendran, MA, MBA Research Associate

Christoph Forster Intern

Dr. Ursula GlunkManager and Program Director LEIZ

Dr. Angelica V. Marte Research Fellow and Program Director Tailor-Made

Julika Baumann Montecinos, Diploma in Internat. Cultural and Business Studies Research Associate

Gabriele Pirkl Assistant LEIZ

Alexander Spelsberg Student Assistant

Pauline VernimbStudent Assistant

Rebecca Werst Student Assistant

Prof. Dr. Josef Wieland Director LEIZ | Chair Institutional Economics Organisational Governance, Integrity Management & Transcultural Leadership

Andreas E. H. Heck, Diploma in Bus. Admin.Research AssociateResearch Manager

adVisoRY boaRd

Dr. h. c. Ernst Susanek

Chairman LEIZ-Advisory Board,

Honorary Chairman ZU Foundation

Prof. Dr. Stephan A. Jansen

President ZU

Dietmar Kokott

former Senior Vice President BASF SE,

Board of Trustees Wittenberg-Zentrum fr Globale Ethik

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Klaus Leisinger

President Foundation Global Values Alliance

Prof. Dr. Christa Rohde-Dachser

Institut fr Psychoanalyse der DPG Frankfurt

Prof. h. c. Dipl.-Ing. Karl Schlecht

Chairman Karl Schlecht Gemeinntzige Stiftung (KSG)

Tim SchleicherStudent Assistant

most ReCent PubliCations

WIELAND, J. (2014, forthcoming):

Moralische Charakterbildung, Leadership Excellence und Corporate Character.

In: Zeitschrift fr Wirtschaft und Unternehmensethik.

WIELAND, J. (2014, forthcoming):

Governance Ethics: Global value creation, economic organization and normativity.

Berlin: Springer.

WIELAND, J., HECK, A. E. H. (2013):

Shared Value durch Stakeholder Governance.

Marburg: Metropolis.

WIELAND, J. (2013):

Governancestrukturen des Gemeinwohls Eine wirtschaftsethische Skizze.

In: v. Kempf, E., Lderssen, K., Volk, K. (Hrsg.): Gemeinwohl im Wirtschaftsstrafrecht.

Berlin: De Gruyter, S. 45 64.

WIELAND, J. (2013):

Unternehmensethik und Wertemanagement in der Medizintechnik.

In: Ungethm, M., Kramer, W. (Hrsg.): Tuttlingen Weltzentrum der Medizintechnik. Innen- und Auen(an)sichten.

Ostfildern: Thorbecke, S. 241 252.

Contact LEIZ Transfer to Practice

Dr. Ursula Glunk

Manager and Program Director LEIZ

Phone: +49 7541 6009 2265

E-Mail: ursula.glunk@zu.de

Contact LEIZ Research

Andreas E. H. Heck

Research Manager

Phone: +49 7541 6009 2263

E-Mail: andreas.heck@zu.de

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Editor: Dr. Ursula Glunk

Art Director: Philipp N. Hertel

Date: May 2014

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