Roland Springer

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Roland Springer (born December 5, 1954 in Schenkenzell ) is a German industrial and organizational sociologist, automobile manager and management consultant.

Life

Springer studied sociology, philosophy and political science at the Universities of Heidelberg and Paris VIII as well as at the TU Darmstadt and received his doctorate from the TU Darmstadt with a thesis on the introduction of computer-controlled machines in German mechanical engineering. After receiving his doctorate, he spent several years researching at the Sociological Research Institute (SOFI) in Göttingen on the organizational requirements and consequences of the introduction of Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) in the automotive, mechanical engineering and chemical industries. At the end of the 1980s, he took over the management of a staff position in the HR department of what was then Mercedes-Benz AG (today Daimler AG), where he worked for more than ten years. During this time, he was involved in the development of the Mercedes Benz Production System (MPS) , which had to be coordinated and negotiated with the company's works council and the responsible bodies at IG Metall . At the end of the 1990s, Springer wrote a study on labor policy in the German automotive industry, with which he completed his habilitation in 1999 at the University of Tübingen.

In 2000 Springer founded his own consulting company, which he has been managing since then. At the same time he taught first as a private lecturer and then as an adjunct professor at the University of Tübingen in his field of industrial and organizational sociology. For several years now, Springer has also been dealing with the topics of migration and integration, about which he published a book in 2017.

Publications

• with Joachim Bergmann, Hartmut Hirsch-Kreinsen and Harald Wolf: Rationalization, mechanization and control of the work process. The introduction of CNC technology in mechanical engineering companies. Frankfurt / New York 1986, ISBN 3-593-33693-6 .
• New forms of work organization - causes, goals and current status at Mercedes-Benz AG. In: Leo Kißler (Ed.): Toyotism in Europe. Lean production and group work in the German and French automotive industries. Frankfurt aM 1996, ISBN 3-593-35552-3
• Future of Scientific Management . In: Institute for Applied Work Science (Hrsg.): Work organization in the automotive industry - status and outlook. Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-89172-413-6 .
• Return to Taylorism? Labor policy in the automotive industry at a crossroads. Frankfurt / New York 1999, ISBN 3-593-36258-9 .
• Sociology as a design science. In: Birgit Blättel-Mink, Ingrid Katz (eds.): Sociology as a profession? Sociological advice between science and practice. Wiesbaden 2004.
• Competitiveness through innovation. Successful management of organizational change. Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2004, ISBN 3-540-40420-1 .
• Survival of the Fittest. In this way, top companies improve their processes and their management culture at the same time. Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-89879-474-9 .
• Lane change. How refugee policy really works. Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-95972-058-8 .
• Ideology of openness to the world - how left is the identity-left purification agenda? In: Sandra Kostner (Ed.): Identity Left Purification Agenda. A debate on its consequences for migrant societies. Stuttgart 2019, ISBN 978-3-8382-1307-1