Executives and Leadership Structures in Private Businesses (Augsburg Study, Survey of Businesses)

Topics: Organizational principle of the company; number and designation of hierarchy levels of the company; type of position designations; number of employees and average income at the various hierarchy levels; employment of academics; company re-organization in the last few years; utilization of external advisers; use of leadership directions and position descriptions; decision committee with authority disputes; regularly conducting and type of employee evaluations; training junior executives in the business; manner of applicant search and applicant selection regarding respective hierarchy levels; entry position and starting salary for college graduates; reasons for not hiring graduates; perceived weaknesses in college education of business people; most important subjects in college education; possibilities to increase the practicality of college education; requirement profile of a graduate; training time and possible measures to reduce this; topics, type as well as extent of further education measures within the company and outside of the company; instructors used with measures for further education; attitude to participation of company employees in distance learning courses or classroom studies; possible goals of classroom studies; interest of the company in university contacts; legal form of company; characterization of share owners; founding year of business and of the operation; fusion data; share of export; changes of the need for personnel; proportion of women among the employees; primary type of production in the company; use of electronic data processing; size of data processing facility; occupation career.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; number of children; ages of children (classified); religious denomination; school education; vocational training; regional origins.