Horst-Joachim Rahn

Horst-Joachim Rahn

Horst-Joachim Rahn (born February 20, 1944 in Olbernhau ) is a German business economist , university professor and writer . He lives in Grünstadt .

Life and work

His professional career began in 1962 with training as an industrial clerk at the large company Grünzweig & Hartmann in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , which he completed in 1964. He then became head of education and training. Here he gained management experience and practical experience in human resources and training. He planned and coordinated seminars for the company's executives and was responsible for hiring, supporting and training the trainees.

Rahn later studied business administration and education at the University of Mannheim . He is considered a specialist in group-oriented leadership style or system-oriented personnel management or team management . In addition, he represents the 'level-oriented' approach to corporate management , which is linked to strategic, tactical and operational management. In addition, he dealt intensively with the structuring of connection paths between positions within the framework of the operational organizational structure and with the tasks of the organizational department , organizational controlling and group controlling.

For students, he developed special procedures for solving a written exam (examination) and for lecturers he developed suggestions for assessing seminar, bachelor, master and diploma theses, i.e. for scientific work . In addition, he designed human resource management processes and he developed process-oriented human resources . His scientific role models were Konrad Mellerowicz and August Marx . In 2015 he published the title Small Dictionary of My Aphorisms and in 2016 he brought out a comprehensive work on the dialectic of the humanities universe . In the latter book, a little over 300 terms are explained, theses and antitheses on the respective topic are explained, which lead to a synthesis based on personal points of view.

His life's work forms hypotheses about the meaning of life . Here the so-called personal basis of meaning contains the special meaning of life that every person can give himself, e.g. B. living for the family or striving for success at work or in sport. People with “longings” will, however, hold a view according to higher standards, which in a model perspective concern the so-called theoretical superstructure. This consists of a theological part and a philosophical part, e.g. B. Justice, freedom, happiness, which in antiquity was primarily seen as the meaning of life. The link between the personal basis of meaning and the theoretical superstructure is the pursuit of satisfaction, which is expressed in the well-being of people. The permanent pursuit of life satisfaction (which is in constant battle with dissatisfaction) is the general meaning of life and forms the key to happiness.

Teaching assignments

Since 1975 he has been teaching at the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences , primarily in the fields of human resources , management psychology , corporate management , corporate planning and marketing , as well as at the Heidelberg University of Applied Sciences and the Ludwigshafen Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Mannheim.

Awards

• 2005: University medal from the FH Ludwigshafen

Fonts (selection)

• with Olfert and Zschenderlein: Lexicon of business administration. 9th edition. Herne 2020, ISBN 978-3-470-45609-6 .
• with Svenja Mintert: corporate management. 10th edition. Herne 2019, ISBN 978-3-470-43010-2 .
• The little economist. Leipzig 2019, ISBN 978-3-96145-767-0 .
• Organizational organization of the company educational work. Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-96145-418-1 .
• Current leadership psychology. Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-96145-374-0 .
• Operational personnel organization. Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-96145-323-8 .
• with Olfert: Introduction to business administration. 12th edition, Herne 2017, ISBN 978-3-470-64942-9 .
• Tips for successful football. Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-96008-917-9 .
• The operational management organization. Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-96008-885-1 .
• Tips for a successful bachelor thesis. Leipzig 2017, ISBN 978-3-96008-845-5 .
• Small dictionary of humor. Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-96008-486-0 .
• Dialectics of the humanities universe. Leipzig 2016, ISBN 978-3-96008-227-9 .
• Corporate governance. 9th edition. Herne 2015, ISBN 978-3-470-43019-5 .
• with Olfert: organization. 7th edition. Herne 2015, ISBN 978-3-470-49867-6 .
• Small dictionary of my aphorisms. Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-95744-909-2 .
• Small dictionary on football. Frankfurt am Main 2015, e-book, ISBN 978-3-03830-067-0 .
• Small dictionary for education. Norderstedt 2014, ISBN 978-3-7357-9596-0
• To the meaning of life. Memories and postulates for coping with life. Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86451-005-2 .
• Process-oriented human resources. Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86451-003-8 .
• with Crisand: The employee appraisal as a management tool . 3. Edition. Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86451-000-7 .
• with Crisand: Psychology of the trainees. 3. Edition. Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-937444-96-3 .
• with Crisand: personnel appraisal systems . 4th edition. Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-937444-95-6 .
• Mental work techniques. Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-937444-81-9 .
• Rhetoric and presentation. 2nd Edition. Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-937444-74-1 .
• Successful team leadership. 6th edition. Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-937444-66-6 .
• with Crisand: Psychological basics in the management process. 3. Edition. Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-937444-70-3 .
• with Crisand: Psychology of Personality. 9th edition. Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-937444-64-2 .
• Compact personnel management. A system-oriented approach. Munich / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58506-3 .
• Leadership of groups. Group tour with a system. 5th edition. Frankfurt a. M. 1998, ISBN 3-7938-7199-1 .
• Design of HR processes. Frankfurt a. M. 2005, ISBN 3-8005-7323-7 .
• Operational management. 3. Edition. Ludwigshafen 1996, ISBN 3-470-43013-6 .
• Forms of the organizational structure of the company education system in large industrial companies. Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-428-05503-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst-Joachim Rahn in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rahn on the homepage of the FH Ludwigshafen LB Horst-J. Rahn: publications

Individual evidence

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