Feuerwehr und Supervision

Supervision in the fire services is not too common. This article will first describe the multifunctional field of work of the emergency services as well as their job requirements. Then the article will show possible starting points for supervision, and the difficulties in its acquisition and execution. Concludingly there will be a special example of supervision with psychotraumatherapeutic approaches.     

Replik zu dem Kommentar von Jörg Laitenberger zu meinem Aufsatz „Nutzenorientierte versus traditionelle subjektive Unternehmensbewertung”

Zusammenfassung  Der Kommentar Laitenberger’s zu meinem Aufsatz „Nutzenorientierte versus traditionelle subjektive Unternehmensbewertung” befruchtet zweifelsohne an zwei Stellen die Diskussion um eine theoretisch fundierte Unternehmensbewertung. Zum Ersten arbeitet Laitenberger heraus, dass Konsumvorgaben ein Problem bei der Unternehmensbewertung beinhalten. Allerdings trifft diese Problemerkenntnis gerade nicht auf die von mir vorgeschlagene nutzenorientierte Unternehmensbewertung zu wie irrtümlich von Laitenberger angenommen. Laitenberger kehrt n?mlich die Vorgehensweise der nutzenorientierten Unternehmensbewertung um: Anstatt, wie von der nutzenorientierten Unternehmensbewertung verfolgt, Vorgaben für Stückzahlen zu treffen und damit Konsumzahlungen zu errechnen, gibt Laitenberger Konsumzahlungen vor und berechnet daraus Stückzahlen. Darüber hinaus sind die Vorgabe eines Konsums und die Vorgabe einer Stückzahlstrategie trotz der Budget-Identit?t gerade nicht identisch.-Dieser Irrtum Laitenberger’s bezüglich der nutzenorientierten Unternehmensbewertung erlaubt es mir aber, sowohl Konsistenz als auch Leistungsf?higkeit der nutzenorientierten Unternehmensbewertung nochmals herauszuarbeiten. Zum Zweiten konnte, angeregt durch Laitenberger’s grafische Erl?uterungen, ein formaler Beweis dafür geliefert werden, dass der nutzenorientierte Unternehmenswert bei ausschlie?licher Investition in das Unternehmen immer kleiner als der entsprechende Wert der traditionellen subjektiven Unternehmensbewertung sein muss.

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Befristete Beschäftigung: Chance oder Risiko?

The paper investigates whether increased labor market flexibility leads to a reinforcement of the existing segmentation of the labor market or whether it is dismantling the barriers in the labor market. Using spell data (employment and unemployment periods) from the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP, time period: 1984–1999) both determinants of fixed-term contracts and their consequences (renewed temporary employment, unemployment) are investigated with the help of random-effects logit-models. The results show that respondents’ characteristics (amount and type of human capital, formerly experienced periods of unemployment), structural variables (branch, firm size), and occupational characteristics (position, marginal employment) are influencing the risk of getting a temporary job. Furthermore it becomes evident that fixed-term contracts are increasing the risk of getting a temporary job again or of becoming unemployed after termination of the temporary job. These results show that fixed-term contracts above all are part of the secondary labor market, and that they especially have negative consequences for the employees in this segment. On the other hand fixed-term contracts can be seen as a chance in the way that they offer at least an alternative to unemployment. Hence, a too narrow evaluation of temporary employment would be too simplistic.     

Studienanfänger in Leipziger Bachelorstudiengängen der Sozialwissenschaften

During the introduction of bachelor degrees to the acadamic year 2006–2007, the faculty for social sciences and philosophy at the University of Leipzig conducted a survey among freshmen. The study focused particularly on students’ motives for starting their studies at a university, for choosing a particular university and on their intentions to complete a master’s degree later on. Furthermore, data on freshmen’s age structure, study and work experience and geographical provenance were collected. The data analysis showed that extrinsic motives related to future occupational status prevailed among the freshmen. Among the relevant motives for choosing a university were also proximity to a students hometown, the attractiveness of the university’s location and its reputation. While it could not be clarified whether there was a relation between tuition fees and the choice of university, there was a clear trend among students to a master’s degree. More than two thirds of the freshmen felt certain that they would do one after their bachelor.     

Von Realisten und Konformisten — Wider die Theorie der Wertsynthese

Klages’ theory of value synthesis claims that those people whom he calls “active realists” represent the evolutionary potential to generate a general process of value change. Realists combine high esteem for the traditional values of diligence and law and order with an equally high esteem for the ‘newer’ values of participation and self-determination. As a result, Klages’ approach contradicts the basic assumption of value theory in general: According to Parsons, Rokeach and Inglehart, the competent, rational and ‘good’ citizen is seen as an individual who is able to assign clear priorities to the diverse and contradictory range of modern values. Individuals who lack this ability are supposed to act erratic, patternless and anomic. Klages, by contrast, understands the value synthesis as an expression of a mature and competent personality. Based on a representative survey conducted in 1992, this article examines attitudes and action pre-dispositions of individuals who perform value synthesis compared to individuals who give clear priorities to certain values over other values. The empirical analyses clearly confirm the assumptions of general value theories: values function as guidelines for action only if they are organised hierarchically. Therefore, a synthesis of contradictory values leads to helplessness, fear of the future and, in particular, conformism.