Executives and Leadership Structures in Private Businesses (Augsburg Study, Survey of Businesses)

Description of leadership structure as well as requirements of training
and further education of company executives by company management.

Topics: Organizational principle of the company; number and
designation of hierarchy levels of the company; type of position
designations; number of employees and average income at the various
hierarchy levels; employment of academics; company re-organization in
the last few years; utilization of external advisers; use of leadership
directions and position descriptions; decision committee with authority
disputes; regularly conducting and type of employee evaluations;
training junior executives in the business; manner of applicant search
and applicant selection regarding respective hierarchy levels; entry
position and starting salary for college graduates; reasons for not
hiring graduates; perceived weaknesses in college education of business
people; most important subjects in college education; possibilities to
increase the practicality of college education; requirement profile of
a graduate; training time and possible measures to reduce this; topics,
type as well as extent of further education measures within the company
and outside of the company; instructors used with measures for further
education; attitude to participation of company employees in distance
learning courses or classroom studies; possible goals of classroom
studies; interest of the company in university contacts; legal form of
company; characterization of share owners; founding year of business
and of the operation; fusion data; share of export; changes of the need
for personnel; proportion of women among the employees; primary type of
production in the company; use of electronic data processing; size of
data processing facility; occupation career.

Demography: age (classified); sex; marital status; number of children;
ages of children (classified); religious denomination; school
education; vocational training; regional origins.