Das Karriereplateau

The career-plateau as challenge to enterprises, employees and consultantsThe authors intend to link life-span-psychology to career-research in order to make understand the phenomenon of career-plateau and how individuals and organisations can deal with it. People take stock in the middle of their lives and assess their personal or professional targets. This process often relates to a personal crisis, especially when the success rate of a job is an important part of the self-concept and hierarchical development has stopped simultaneously. Nevertheless, the desire for a career continues to exist. On top of that what makes it even harder is that the individual has to work at least 20 more years because of demographic reasons. We assume that the way how to manage this crisis has a big influence on performance motivation and that life-span-orientated management development can help the individual to overcome the crisis or even prevent it.     

Das Image von Supervision im Klinikkontext

In this study the image of supervision in organizations is conceptualized for the first time and defined as the collective conception of supervision in the relevant stakeholders’ minds characterized by subjectivity. In a pilot study, the image of supervision and its influencing factors and effects in the hospital context are explored from 63 executives’ point of view. Results show that self- and external image have to be differentiated based on experience with supervision. Furthermore, the image’s potential influence on behavior and its importance as a process extern impact factor is demonstrated.     

Das Geschäft mit dem Erfolg

The success businessThis article explores dubious strategies engaged in by individuals and organizations in the lifelong learning, coaching and consultancy field. Business in this fledgling industry is largely conducted outside the bounds of quality standards and neutral accrediting bodies and is considered fertile ground for making a fast buck by profit-hungry companies. They beguile practitioners in the field to invest their assets in purportedly attractive businesses. The author analyzes the business practices used by these fly-by-night organizations and reveals the types of enticing offers inexperienced practitioners may fall a prey to. The author presents ways to determine, whether a company is employing practices of this kind and to safeguard against exploitation by potentially fraudulent business partners.     

Das „Hochstaplersyndrom“ in der Wissenschaft

Real impostors are people who obtain their academic degrees by fraud. On the contrary, the qualifications of those who suffer from the impostor syndrome are authentic and legally acquired. Nevertheless, they feel they are not worthy of their certificates and are afraid their feeling of inferiority will be “exposed”. After a summary of psychological findings, it is explained by means of different aspects to what extent the impostor syndrome thrives at higher education institutions and why many (female) academics feel like impostors. Subsequently, the significance of this syndrome in the field of coaching (female) academics is made clear and suggestions of methods to be used in order to successfully cope with the impostor syndrome are given.     

Erich Wulff: Das Unglück der kleinen Giftmischerin und zehn weitere Geschichten aus der Forensik

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