Friedrich Glasl

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Friedrich Glasl (born May 23, 1941 in Vienna ) is an Austrian economist , organizational consultant and conflict researcher . He currently lives in Salzburg and works, among other things, at the Trigon development consultancy, which he co-founded .

Live and act

Phases of conflict escalation according to Glasl

Glasl first learned the profession of typesetter and then studied political science as well as the minor subjects psychology and philosophy at the University of Vienna . In 1967 he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on international conflict prevention. rer. pol., In 1983 he completed his habilitation with a focus on organizational development and conflict research at the Department of Economics at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal .

Professionally, Glasl was secretary for the Austrian branch of the peace organization Service Civil International . In this context, he organized work camps to meet people from both sides of the Iron Curtain , for example in Hungary and in the Waldviertel . He also worked in the statistics office of the Linz city ​​administration , in printing and publishing houses and as an assistant director in a cellar theater .

In 1966 Glasl emigrated to the Netherlands , where he worked from 1967 to 1985 at the Institute for Organizational Development (NPI) founded by Bernard Lievegoed in management consulting , research and teaching. In their thinking and acting, Glasl and Lievegoed were influenced by Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy as well as by systemic models of interpretation and control . It was initially Lievegoed who presented and published a systemic-evolutionary process of dynamic organizational development in three phases, Glasl then later expanded this model to include a fourth phase:

  1. Pioneering phase
  2. Differentiation phase
  3. Integration phase
  4. Association phase.

The phases are characterized by Glasl and Lievegoed on the basis of the change in 7 essential elements, which in turn enable a diagnosis of the current processes and prevailing subsystems within an organization (social subsystem; technical-instrumental subsystem; cultural subsystem). As essential elements of Glasl and Lievegoed:

  1. identity
  2. Policy, principles, programs,
  3. Structure (organizational structure),
  4. People,
  5. Individual functions,
  6. Process organization and
  7. Physical means

named.

In 1985 Glasl returned to Austria from the Netherlands. There he co-founded “Trigon Development Consulting” in Salzburg and lecturer in applied business administration at the University of Klagenfurt and, in 1993, lecturer in organizational development and conflict management at the University of Salzburg . As a visiting professor Glasl at the State University of Tbilisi (Georgia) and in was Switzerland , in South Africa , in Russia , in Finland and in Brazil operates.

Friedrich Glasl is married and has three children.

In addition to over 150 specialist publications, Glasl also wrote literary radio plays , stories, legends and poetry and in his spare time runs a puppet theater with his wife and friends .

In 2017, Glasl received the Life Achievement Award of the continuing education industry for his life's work.

Fonts

  • Conflict management. Diagnosis and treatment of conflicts in organizations (= organizational development in practice, Volume 2), Bern, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-258-02971-7 ., 4th edition 1994, ...., 10th edition 2011, 11th edition Edition 2013.
  • Self-help in conflicts . 2002, ...., 5th edition 2008
  • Ability to deal with conflict instead of lust for conflict . 1998
  • The company of the future. Moral intuition in the design of organizations . 1st edition 1994, 2nd edition 1999
  • Conflict, crisis, catharsis and the transformation of the doppelganger . 2007
  • with Trude Kalcher and Hannes Piber: Professional process consulting, the Trigon model of the seven basic OE processes . 2nd edition 2008
  • with Bernard Lievegoed: Dynamic corporate development. How pioneering companies and bureaucracies become lean companies (= organizational development in practice, volume 6), Bern, Stuttgart, Vienna, Haupt, 1993, 1996, 2004, 4th edition 2011, ISBN 3-258-05389-8 and ISBN 3- 7725-1162-7 .
  • with Willem JJ Jasper: From cooperative market strategy to corporate development . 1988

literature

  • Rudi Ballreich, Marlies Fröse and Hannes Piber (eds.): Organizational development and conflict management . 1st and 2nd part. Part 3 on Glasl's life's work, collection of articles, 2007, ISBN 978-3-258-07212-8 .
  • Friedrich Glasl, Bernard Lievegoed: Dynamic corporate development, foundations for sustainable change management , 4th edition 2011, ISBN 978-3-258-07685-0 (main publisher Bern) and ISBN 978-3-7725-1162-2 (Verlag Freies Geistesleben Stuttgart )

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marlies W. Fröse: Organizational Development and Conflict Management. Biographical milestones in the life of Friedrich Glasl . S. 17-18 ( concadoraverlag.de [PDF]).
  2. ↑ Prize winner 2017 Friedrich Glasl
personal data
SURNAME Glasl, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian economist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna