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Die vorliegende Publikation analysiert die Integration digitaler Tools in die strategische Personalentwicklung mit Fokus auf den Einsatz von Microsoft Forms zur Optimierung von Skill-Checks in einem mittelständischen Dienstleistungsunternehmen des Sondermaschinenbaus. Gegenstand der Untersuchung ist, inwiefern IT-gestützte Qualifikationsprozesse die Effizienz, Genauigkeit und Skalierbarkeit der Mitarbeiterbewertung verbessern können. In der Untersuchung werden Herausforderungen des Fachkräftemangels, der digitalen Transformation und der Prozessautomatisierung berücksichtigt. Die praktische Implementierung und Wirkung der digitalen Skill-Checks wird durch eine Fallstudie evaluiert. Die Veröffentlichung leitet Handlungsempfehlungen für Unternehmen ab, die ihre Wettbewerbsfähigkeit nachhaltig sichern wollen, indem sie innovative Personalentwicklungsstrategien implementieren.

As living, economic and cultural spaces, cities require a sustainable energy system and must be designed to be highly energy efficient. The book provides a framework for practitioners and scientists on how the energy transition can contribute to achieving climate goals in the building sector. Innovations and creative approaches for solutions from the lighthouse projects of the Solar Building/Energy Efficient City funding initiative are presented.

In this paper we contextualize Carl Menger’s work in relation to the transformations of German political economy from the 1860s to the 1890s. We demonstrate that his Grundsätze (1871) was a culmination of the German subjectivist tradition which had started in the early nineteenth century. Menger’s synthesis of this tradition is comparable to Adam Smith’s synthesis of earlier knowledge in theWealth of Nations (1776). Menger’s contribution was continuous with the intellectual project of leading German economists, such as Wilhelm Roscher, to whom Menger had dedicated his book. Roscher, however, also promoted a historical turn, that was combined with a progressive policy agenda by a new generation of German economists after they founded the Verein für Socialpolitik in 1872. These divergent Roscherian legacies clashed vehemently in the Methodenstreit. During this debate Menger elaborated in his Untersuchungen (1883) an evolutionary and spontaneous theory of institutional change, in line with the legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment and in contrast to a more rationalist and constructivist theory of institutional change expounded by Gustav Schmoller and other Verein economists. The new policy-oriented direction of German political economy carried the day, also due the fundamental socio-economic transformations in the German and Austro-Hungarian Empires, and prompted Menger to restate in 1891 the social policy agenda of the classical political economists, most prominently Smith. Menger’s recurrent proximities to Smithian political economy – in the synthetic contribution of 1871, the theoretical innovation of 1883, and the policy agenda of 1891 – suggest that his arguments are best understood as a defense of what Boettke has called the “mainline” in economics.

Rwanda is among the fastest‐growing economies in Sub‐Saharan Africa, often discussed in the context of a ‘development state’. This paper examines whether Rwanda can be classified as a ‘developmental dictatorship’, a term closely associated with South Korea. It compares Rwanda's development under Paul Kagame (2000–2024) with South Korea's under Park Chung‐hee (1963–1979). Although both countries share similarities in their developmental preconditions and the motivations of their leaders, their policies differ significantly. Park Chung‐hee focused on industrialization through Five‐Year Plans, whereas Kagame emphasizes creating favourable business conditions. Consequently, South Korea has achieved significant wealth, whereas Rwanda remains a Less Developed Country, though both exemplify successful ‘developmental dictatorships’.

Die vorliegende Ausarbeitung befasst sich mit der strategischen Einordnung des Qualitätsmanagements in die Organisationsstruktur eines Unternehmens. Sie beleuchtet die theoretischen Grundlagen der Organisationslehre sowie die spezifischen Anforderungen und Vorteile des strategischen Qualitätsmanagements. Im ersten Teil werden die verschiedenen Organisationsformen und deren Anwendung in Unternehmen detailliert beschrieben. Der zweite Teil widmet sich der Integration des strategischen Qualitätsmanagements in die Managementpyramide, um dessen Einfluss auf die Unternehmensführung und die Umsetzung der Qualitätsziele zu verdeutlichen. Es wird aufgezeigt, wie das strategische Qualitätsmanagement zur Erreichung einer nachhaltigen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit beitragen kann, indem es die Prozesse und Strukturen eines Unternehmens optimiert. Die Arbeit betont die Wichtigkeit einer klaren Trennung zwischen operativem und strategischem Qualitätsmanagement und stellt dar, wie diese beiden Ebenen effektiv zusammenwirken können.

An increasing digital interconnection of commercial and residential buildings is an important element to achieve a more and more energy efficient control by communication and automation. It provides a significant approach to fight climate change and increasing energy prices in a cost-effective manner with low initial investment. Besides potential energy saving for inherent amortization, automation solutions and resulting communication infrastructures allow us to establish innovative digital services and new points of intersection. Another aspect of smart buildings is the matter of fact, that systems are getting more and more complicated, error-prone and challenging during planning, implementation, maintenance and more general the entire management and lifecycle process. During the last years we have developed an automation platform with standard and open-source components including configuration generating processes to efficiently build up infrastructure for a digital heating community in apartment houses. The resulting information and communication infra-structure between smart homes and smart buildings opens up a nearly undiscovered field of interconnection beyond individual internet access of the inhabitants and an important opportunity to provide innovative digital services based on this. Therefore,we are going to provide an additional insight for example into our latest implemented services that go hand in hand like an emergency call service and automatic analysis of heartbeats as well as a rental system for micro mobiles.