This book introduces readers to essential facilitation techniques for leadership in the contexts of project and network management. It provides method-based messages, a facilitator curriculum, and a veritable arsenal of 50 carefully selected and 'reality-tested' tools for facilitation in non-hierarchical contexts. As such, readers will benefit just as much from learning by doing as from doing by learning. This book is also intended for all managers who are responsible for successful communication and co-operation in projects in and across organisations or networks of organisations, and who want to know how to share their plans effectively and improve collaboration. Though the book employs scientific principles, it is chiefly a practical guide, and draws on the authors' extensive experience in consultancy and management.

In recent years, social innovation has experienced a steep career. Numerous national governments and large organisations like the OECD, the European Commission and UNESCO have adopted the term. Social innovation basically means that people adopt new social practices in order to meet social needs in a different or more effective way. Prominent examples of the past are the Red Cross and the social welfare state or, at present, the internet 2.0 transforming our communication and cooperation schemes, requiring new management concepts, even empowering social revolutions. The traditional concept of innovation as successful new technological products needs fundamental rethinking in a society marked by knowledge and services, leading to a new and enriched paradigm of innovation. There is multiple evidence that social innovation will become of growing importance not only concerning social integration, equal opportunities and dealing with the greenhouse effects but also with regard to preserving and expanding the innovative capacity of companies and societies. While political authorities stress the social facets of social innovation, this book also encompasses its societal and systemic dimensions, collecting the scientific expertise of renowned experts and scholars from all over the world. Based on the contributions of the first world-wide science convention on social innovation from September 2011 in Vienna, the book provides an overview of scientific approaches to this still relatively new field. Forewords by Agnes HUBERT (Member of theBureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA) of the European Commission) and Antonella Noya (Senior Policy Analyst at OECD, manager of the OECD LEED Forum on Social Innovations)

Personal stress has an enormous impact on organizational and employee performance. This book introduces the web-based diagnostic tool IMPRESS, which provides employees, managers and HR professionals with information about potential stress factors. The book describes the underlying methodology for this integrated approach and presents the tools and learning modules to support the methodology. A series of case studies from pilot implementations in companies and universities illustrate the application of the approach in a variety of work environments. The book is based on an international research project for a holistic approach to stress prevention by combining Human Systems Audit with the European Excellence approach as promoted by the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) and the EFQM Excellence Model. This approach is intended to contribute to organizational development that supports effective employee stress management.

The title of the book derives from the theme of the 20th Conference on Applied Social Sciences of the Professional Association of German Sociologists, held in Munich in May 2019. The question of what concrete contributions social innovations can make to the transition to forms of sustainable coexistence and economic activity is as much the focus of this book as the question of what contribution the social sciences can make. Thus, on the one hand, it is about concrete social innovations that help us to achieve the goal of living and doing business sustainably, but on the other hand, it is also about the way in which the social sciences - not least through appropriate theoretical and methodological training - can be made socially responsible for the success of such socially innovative processes.

1 1. 1 The book The book in your hand is not a scientific book, although it is based just as much on science as on my own experience in consultancy and management. As its title suggests, we want to build a bridge between the leadership that is typical of facilitation techniques and that of pr- ect and network management. Therefore this book does more than p- vide you with insights into the mainly methodical Messages we want to transmit. It will also make suggestions for how to train facilitators, and in the centre of the book you will find a wealth of 40 carefully selected and reality-proof Tools, many of which have never been pre- ously published in English, and in some case have never been published at all. With all of these you will find a presentation of our way of using them. Our sole objective is to offer our views and experience in impr- ing communication for effective co-operation, i. e. we want people who collaborate in some way to find and decide on the best courses of action, then share and implement these decisions better. We want to promote learning by doing, just as well as doing by learning. So this book is for people who in some way are responsible for s- cessful co-operation in projects, in and across organisations or networks of organisations. Action Learning has many fathers (but few mothers) and roots.

In recent years, social innovation has experienced a steep career. Numerous national governments and large organisations like the OECD, the European Commission and UNESCO have adopted the term. Social innovation basically means that people adopt new social practices in order to meet social needs in a different or more effective way. Prominent examples of the past are the Red Cross and the social welfare state or, at present, the internet 2.0 transforming our communication and cooperation schemes, requiring new management concepts, even empowering social revolutions. The traditional concept of innovation as successful new technological products needs fundamental rethinking in a society marked by knowledge and services, leading to a new and enriched paradigm of innovation. There is multiple evidence that social innovation will become of growing importance not only concerning social integration, equal opportunities and dealing with the greenhouse effects but also with regard to preserving and expanding the innovative capacity of companies and societies. While political authorities stress the social facets of social innovation, this book also encompasses its societal and systemic dimensions, collecting the scientific expertise of renowned experts and scholars from all over the world. Based on the contributions of the first world-wide science convention on social innovation from September 2011 in Vienna, the book provides an overview of scientific approaches to this still relatively new field. Forewords by Agnes HUBERT (Member of the Bureau of European Policy Advisers (BEPA) of the European Commission) and Antonella Noya (Senior Policy Analyst at OECD, manager of the OECD LEED Forum on Social Innovations)

Personal stress has an enormous impact on organizational and employee performance. This book introduces the web-based diagnostic tool IMPRESS, which provides employees, managers and HR professionals with information about potential stress factors. The book describes the underlying methodology for this integrated approach and presents the tools and learning modules to support the methodology. A series of case studies from pilot implementations in companies and universities illustrate the application of the approach in a variety of work environments. The book is based on an international research project for a holistic approach to stress prevention by combining Human Systems Audit with the European Excellence approach as promoted by the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) and the EFQM Excellence Model. This approach is intended to contribute to organizational development that supports effective employee stress management.

Dieser Band macht konkrete soziale Innovationen zum Gegenstand. Der Schwerpunkt liegt bei den Kommunen von Stadt und Land, sei es beim Carsharing oder bei der Bewaltigung der zahlreichen Erscheinungsformen des demografischen Wandels, bei neuen Wohnformen oder Schulen als Innovationszentren. Der Band soll das Verstehen sozialer Innovationsprozesse erleichtern, fur das Verhalten in solchen Prozessen qualifizieren und den Diskurs uber die Rolle der Sozialwissenschaften in, fur und bei sozialen Innovationsprozessen vor Ort befoerdern. Gezeigt wird, wie vielfaltig involviert Sozialwissenschaft mit ihren Theorien und Methoden praktisch wird, wie sie soziale Veranderungsprozesse unterstutzt, verbessert und bereichert; auch, wie sie ihr theoretisches Verstandnis sozialer Prozesse und ihre methodische Kreativitat an ihnen scharft; und, zu guter Letzt, wie SozialwissenschaftlerInnen selbst als wissenschaftliche Begleitung solcher Prozesse von deren Beobachtung und Analyse lernen, daran wachsen koennen. Der InhaltDiffusionsprozesse sozialer Innovationen beobachten und begleiten * OEkosysteme sozialer Innovation entdecken und entwickeln Die HerausgeberDr. Hans-Werner Franz ist Mitglied des Geschaftsfuhrenden Vorstandes des BDS (Berufsverband Deutscher Soziologinnen und Soziologen) und Permanent Advisor of ESSI (European School of Social Innovation) mit Sitz in Wien. Dr. Christoph Kaletka ist Senior Researcher und Mitglied der Geschaftsfuhrung der Sozialforschungsstelle, zentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtung der TU Dortmund.

Der 22. Deutsche Soziologentag fand vom 9. bis 12. Oktober 1984 in Dortmund statt. Sein Thema lautete: "Soziologie und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung." Der vorliegende Band dokumentiert die Arbeit der Sektionen und der Ad-hoc-Gruppen. "Sektionen" sind innerhalb der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Soziologie langfristig institutionali sierte Arbeitszusammenhange, die sich mit jeweiligen "Bereichssoziologien" beschaftigen. "Ad hoc-Gruppen" sind von einem oder mehreren Interessenten zu einem bestimmten Thema initi ierte Arbeitskreise, die zunachst nur im Rahmen eines Soziologentages stattfinden, u.U. aber auch danach noch weiter zusammenarbeiten und eventuell auf einem folgenden Soziologentag wieder vertreten sind. Die Referenten der Sektionen und Ad-hoc-Gruppen wurden vom Herausgeber gebeten, maximal funfseitige Kurzfassungen ihrer Beitrage anzufertigen. Ich danke allen Autoren, dass sie es ermoglicht haben, eine nahezu vollstandige Dokumentation der Sektions- und Ad-hoc Gruppen-Arbeit des Soziologentages vorzulegen. Der Band gibt zugleich einen Eindruck von der Vielfalt und Bandbreite der gegenwartigen soziologischen Arbeit in der Bundesrepublik Deutsch land, wobei die Beitrage aus Nachbarlandern eine Bereicherung darstellen. Danken muss ich den Autoren auch fur ihr Verstandnis, wenn ich aufgrund der grossen Fulle von Beitragen und des damit verbundenen Umstandes, alles setzen lassen zu mussen, in etlichen Fallen rigide um Einhaltung des vorgegebenen Umfanglimits nachsuchen musste. In einigen Fallen konnte ich die uberschreitung des Limits dulden, weil andere Beitrage ausfielen oder aufgrund von Absprachen unter den Autoren entsprechend gekurzt wurden. Dass die an nahernd 1.400 Seiten Manuskrfpt gesetzt werden konnten, wurde durch einen Zuschuss der Stadt Dortmund ermoglicht, fur den ich auch an dieser Stelle danken mochte."

Der Titel des Buches geht auf das Thema der 20. Tagung fur Angewandte Sozialwissenschaften des Berufsverbandes Deutscher Soziologinnen und Soziologen zuruck, die im Mai 2019 in Munchen durchgefuhrt wurde. Die Frage, welche Beitrage soziale Innovationen beim UEbergang zu Formen des nachhaltigen Zusammenlebens und Wirtschaftens konkret leisten koennen, steht in diesem Buch ebenso im Mittelpunkt wie die Frage, welchen Beitrag die Sozialwissenschaften leisten koennen. Es geht also zum einen um konkrete soziale Innovationen, die uns bei dem Ziel, nachhaltig zu leben und zu wirtschaften, weiterhelfen, zum anderen aber auch darum, in welcher Weise die Sozialwissenschaften - nicht zuletzt durch entsprechende theoretische und methodische Ausbildung - in die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung fur das Gelingen solcher sozialinnovativen Prozesse genommen werden kann.