Utho Creusen
Utho CW Creusen (born April 24, 1956 in Bad Honnef ) is a German social psychologist .
Live and act
In addition to his honorary professorship at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, he has been honorary professor at the Faculty of Economics at the Catholic University of Eichstätt / Ingolstadt since November 2008. There he deals with the application of positive psychology in questions of leadership, motivation and development of employees in companies. For years he has been leading the Summer School on Positive Psychology, which was founded in the USA by Martin Seligman . In addition, Creusen is the chairman of the jury for the science award of the European Trade Institute.
Creusen has almost 30 years of management experience in various board and management positions in the trading companies Obi , Media-Markt and Saturn . He was a member of the Supervisory Board at Arcandor until 2009 and is currently a non-executive board member at the Russian market leader in electronics retailing M.video and since 2010 at Dixons Retail plc . Since 2013 Creusen has been a member of the supervisory board of the Theo Müller group and Nordsee GmbH .
Creusen is best known for his management performance and scientific work in the field of positive leadership , a leadership model derived from positive psychology. He has implemented and scientifically examined the three elements of positive psychology - flow (engagement), sense (vision) and strength orientation (StrengthsFinder) in numerous companies and was awarded the Leadership Award by the Gallup Institute .
He also worked out and researched the connection between these approaches and the grid model of organizational development . He made decisive progress in building a positive corporate culture .
literature
- 1993: Creusen / Halbe: Merger as an entrepreneurial opportunity: The case study Bräutigam-OBI Wiesbaden: Gabler, 1993 ISBN 3-409-19648-X
- 1993: Creusen / Hommerich / Maus: The chance for innovation: How you live and shape change with employees Wiesbaden: Gabler, 1993 ISBN 3-409-18735-9
- 1995: Creusen / Hommerich / Maus: How much management do people need: Farewell to the mania for feasibility Wiesbaden: Gabler, 1995 ISBN 3-409-18778-2
- 2008: Creusen / Eschemann: Fortunately there is success: How positive leadership leads to top performance. Zurich: Orell Füssli, 2008 ISBN 978-3-280-05298-3
- 2008: Creusen / Eschemann: Finding and promoting talent. (PDF; 892 kB) ; Harvard Business Manager, 2008/01 edition
- 2009: Creusen / Müller-Seitz: Das Positive-Leadership-GRID - An analysis from the perspective of positive management Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2009 ISBN 978-3-834-91948-9
- 2010: Creusen / Eschemann / Johann: Positive Leadership, Psychology of Successful Leadership, Extended Strategies for Using the Grid Model Wiesbaden: Gabler, 2010 ISBN 978-3-8349-2215-1
- 2010: Creusen / Eschemann: GlücksTagebuch Münster: Coppenrath, 2010 ISBN 978-3-8157-9932-1 and ISBN 978-3-8157-9933-8
- 2011: Creusen / Eschemann / Kellner: Positive Psychology in Leadership Hamburg: Windmühle, 2011 ISBN 978-3-9374-4490-1
- 2012: Creusen / Eschemann: Measuring and promoting motivation. How employees grow beyond themselves Zurich: Orell Füssli, 2012 ISBN 978-3-2800-5452-9
- 2013: Creusen / Bock / Thiele: Leadership is three-dimensional - value orientation with Synercube Hamburg: Windmühle, 2013 ISBN 978-3-8645-1009-0
Web links
- Literature by and about Utho Creusen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage Utho Creusen
- Press release from the Catholic University of Eichstätt
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Creusen, Utho |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Creusen, Utho CW (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German social psychologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Honnef |