Value-based corporate governance in practice value with values of Starnberg, June 10, 2013 – rarely the need for ethics, credibility, and orientation in our Western society was higher than it is today. Also in the economy: under the stern of the shareholder value is the mission statement of the Honorable merchant often fall into oblivion. While top managers and entrepreneurs want to correct their course, get bogged down but often in the small small. In his book, Andreas Welther shows how common values in practice defined, lived, and new on this Foundation can contribute added value. Differently than usual in a non-fiction book, Welther the story of Erik Malmstrom AG and illustrated their example what it actually arrives at the value-based corporate governance. Twenty years after founding his company, Malstrom relentlessly takes stock. To create, not only the numbers make him.
Worry made him especially the daily coexistence. The corporate culture shows significant cracks. Supported by his closest advisors, He questioned employees and executives Thomas Sand, as well as HR Director Antje Sommer by using a software program anonymously. What is the company from their point of view, what values are personally important to them? Where the cooperation works well, where there is tension – for whatever reason? The analysis of the corporate culture promotes days, which values the company in the future will be build. And it leaves no doubt that now unpleasant decisions follow. With his exciting written practice Advisor Welther familiarizes the reader in an entertaining way with cornerstones of value-based management. Instead of overtaxing recipients in the management literature often practiced with abstract expertise Welther realistically draws the multifaceted image of a company at a turning point.
Governance, value creation and long-term orientation, as his credo, can enter quite a dynamic connection to the benefit of all. Andreas Welther Wertebasierte corporate governance. An introduction for practitioners. Publishing books on demand GmbH, Norderstedt, 2013 188 pages, 24.90 euro.