(Photo: Sebastiano Pitruzzello)

July 24th-26th, 2009 Research colloquium: Great interest - more than 80 highly qualified PhD students applied for the 20 places at the research colloquium hosted by the RespectResearchGroup. A multifaceted program is awaiting the participants ...more >>

July 24th, 2009 Invitation: The group is hosting a panel discussion on "Diversity - A Bump for Efficiency or a Boost for Enrichment" with a top-class panel in Hamburg. The discussion will be in German only, nevertheless you are warmly invited to join ...more >>

June 19th, 2009 Day of Research: Anja Schmerling, Anna Beregova and Tilman Eckloff presented the RespectResearchGroup at the "Day of Research" at the University of Hamburg.

June 11th, 2009 Defense: Tilman Eckloff has successfully defended his PhD thesis on "respectful leadership and its consequences". Congratulations!

May 19th, 2009 Scientific article (Journal of Business Ethics): New article on the concept of respectful leadership ...www >>

May  12th, 2009 Presentation in Cologne:Sebastian Zenker was invited to talk about his research at the annual meeting of the Bundesvereinigung City- und Stadtmarketing Deutschland e.V. (bcsd).

April 15th 2009 Article (Menschen - Das Magazin): New Article on the topic of power, influence and violence ...pdf >>

April 9th,  2009 Distinguished!:Jan Borkowski, PhD candidate with the RespectResearchGroup, received a scholarship of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung program for gifted post-graduates.

April 1th-8th, 2009 Workshop "German-Israeli Youth Encounter":Tilman Eckloff works as moderator of the German- Israeli youth encounter in Israel by using the betzavta- approach.

April 2nd, 2009 Media coverage (Deutschlandfunk): In an extensive interview, members of the RespectResearchGroup present their viewpoint on the issue of respect ...www >>  ... mp3 >>

March 31th, 2009 Service (BMUKK): Tilman Eckloff finished a consulting project  for the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture in cooperation with the Akademie Führung und Kompetenz.

March 27th, 2009, Open doors in Hamburg: Under the topic "the

utility of respect", the RespectResearchGroup presents some of its past and current research projects. ...more >>

February 20th, 2009 Symposium in Leiden:  Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke presented his conception of the term "respect" as part of aresearch symposium on"Pride, Respect, and Work Motivation"...www >>

February 15th, 2009 Media coverage (SWR 2 Radio): "Neither hot nor cold - about the evil of indifference" was the topic of a broadcast by Doris Weber. Jan Borkowski and Tilman Eckloff were interviewed on the topic ...www >>

January 19th-24th, 2009 Symposium in Montreal: As part of his

admission to the Transatlantic Doctoral Academy on Corporate Responsibility, Jan Borkowski presents his research project on "when can respectful leadership be successful"...www >>

January  17th, 2009 Symposium in Hamburg: At the 25th Hamburg Symposium on Methodology of Social Psychology, Sebastian Zenker and Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke present how personal values work in the context of talent migration and how city slogans can communicate such values. ...www >>

January 5th, 2009 Media Coverage (Zeitschrift für Personalführung): Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke in an interview on the issue of respect in business...pdf >>

January  5th, 2009 Scientific Article (Zeitschrift für Personalführung): In this article, some of our staff sketch why the general perspective on leadership in organizations has been missing a crucial point ...pdf >>

December 19th, 2008 Media Coverage (Frankfurter Rundschau): "It's not about being nice" says Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke in an interview on respect ... www >>

December 4th-6th, 2008 Conference in Berlin:Sebastian Zenker presented part of his work at the "International Conference Marketing Cities: Place Branding in Perspective" at the city hall in Berlin. ...www >>

December 4th, 2008 Media Coverage (Tink): Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke was interviewed by the Swiss youth portal Tink.ch on the topic of respect ...www >>

November 11th, 2008 Research grant: The Research Support Department of the University of Hamburg supports the work of the RespectResearchGroup with 1000,- Euro.

October  27th, 2008 Presentation in Jena:Tilman Eckloff was invited to talk about respect in leader- follower relationships at the Social Psychology Colloquium at the Friedrich- Schiller- University Jena.

October  25th, 2008 Scientific Article (Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie):Tilman Eckloff and Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke present two studies in which they show how identification processes mediate the relationship between leader categorization and subordinates' openness to a leader's influence. ...more>> ...www>> ...pdf>>

October  21th, 2008 Article about talent-city Hamburg: Sebastian Zenker wrote for the German MTP Mehrwert about the needs of the Creative Class and the opportunities for the city of Hamburg. ...pdf >> 

October 1st, 2008 New team member: Jan Borkowski started a PhD with the RespectResearchGroup after having worked for

the Boston Consulting Group for the last two years. His thesis will focus on respectful leadership ...more >>

September 6th, 2008 Research grant: The Research Support Department of the University of Hamburg supports the work of the RespectResearchGroup with 1000,- Euro.

Sept. 5th, 2008 Presentation at UKE: Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke and Tilman Eckloff were invited to talk about advanced statistics regarding continuos variables at the University Clinic Hamburg Eppendorf.

Aug. 26th, 2008 Political chat: Sebastian Zenker was invited as a guest speaker from the "Junge Union (CDU)" for a political

discussion about talent migration and Hamburg city branding.

Aug. 25th, 2008 Media Coverage (Psychologie Heute): Respect was the lead topic. In "Respect from the heart" Ingrid Strobl writes about the phenomenon in today's society and refers to the RespectResearchGroups's research ... pdf >>

Aug 20th-29th, 2008 Workshop "German-Israeli Youth Encounter": Tilman Eckloff works as moderator of the German- Israeli youth encounter "Through Each Others' Eyes - to experience and understand Germany" by using the betzavta- approach

Aug. 15th, 2008Media coverage (Concret): The German magazine Concret wrote an article about respectful leadership

based on our work... pdf >>

July 30th, 2008 Scientific Article (Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie):  Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke and Prof. Felix Brodbeck present two instruments to capture leader categorization in German speaking countries and a scale which captures subordinates' respect for their leaders ...more >> ...pdf >>

July 20th-25th, 2008 Conferences in Berlin:Tilman Eckloff and Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke of the RespectResearchGroup present some works at the 24th International Congress of Psychology and at the 9th Leadership Meeting in Berlin. ...more>>

July 16th, 2008 Defense:Swantje Möller successfully defended her

PhD thesis.

June 1st, 2008 DVD "What's respect?": The WBF (Institut für Weltkunde in Bildung und Forschung) has produced a DVD to be used in high-schools. The topic of respect is illustrated via a documentation of a class council, conveyed via a hip-hopper, and explained by Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke  ...www >>

May 17th, 2008 Scientific Article (Social Psychology and Values):In a book section we describe the development and validation of our scale for the assessment  of respectful leadership behavior. ...more>>  ...pdf>>

May 16th, 2008 Media Coverage (werte[haltig]):The magazine

werte[haltig] wrote on results of our research on respectful leadership in "Respect as factor of success" ...pdf>>

May 15th, 2008 Scientific Aricle (360° Journal): Guest article on "Power: Energy of the social world" ...www >>   ...pdf >>

May 13th, 2008 Media Coverage (Financial Times Deutschland): The ENABLE part of the FTD wrote about a respectful "no" ...pdf >>

May 8th-9th, 2008 Conference in Portsmouth: Tilman Eckloff presented part of his work on respectful leadership at the Leadership Meeting in Portsmouth, UK. ...more>>

May 6th, 2008 New team member:By means of grant money from

the Stiftung Wertevolle Zukunft Suzanne van Gils starts her PhD within the RespectResearchGroup at the Rotterdam School of Management  ...more >>

April 5th, 2008 Media coverage (Hamburger Abendblatt Journal): "Respect is the social lubricant of our society", Theodor-Wolff awardee Özlem Topcu in an interview with Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke ...pdf >>   ...www >>

February 27th, 2008 Respect at the workplace:Tilman Eckloff gave a vocational training on "respect at the workplace" in cooperation with Mehde & Banse Personaltraining und Beratung at the Klinikum Rothenburg.

February 27th, 2008 Media coverage (Stuttgarter Nachrichten):The Stuttgarter Nachrichten Newspaper wrote on respect and results of our research. ...pdf>>

February 7th-10th, 2008 Conference in Albuquerque: Tilman Eckloff presented part of his work on respectful leadership at the 9th Annual Conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Albuquerque, New Mexico. ...more>>  ...pdf>>

February 9th, 2008 Media Coverage (Alles für die Frau): The women magazine interviewed Niels van Quaquebeke on how to get more respect ...pdf >>

Jan. 30th, 2008 Media Coverage (e-Journal Wissenswert): The

e-Journal Wissenswert wrote on results of our research on respect and self-determination. ...pdf>> ...www>>

Jan. 22th, 2008 Research support: SystemOne provides the RespectResearchGroup with its information interface ...www >>

Jan. 14th, 2008 The RespectResearchGroup as a guest of the Federal President: The Federal President Horst Köhler honoured the winner of the "landmarks of idears 2007 contest" at the Annual Reception in Berlin. ...more >>

December 3rd, 2007 Defense:Niels van Quaquebeke defended his PhD thesis on "Respect & Leadership: A Psychological Perspective" successfully. It will be published in the

Wissenschaftsverlag Berlin.

December 2nd, 2007 Media coverage (Welt am Sonntag):"Respect to motivate" was the title of a newspaper article on the work of the RespectResearchGroup ...pdf >>  ...www >>

November 15th, 2007 Philosophical chat: Niels van Quaquebeke was invited as a guest speaker for Samova's 8th philosophical talk series on the issue of "awareness" ...www >>

November 11th, 2007 Media coverage (Careerbuilder):The RespectResearchGroup was contracted to present results of its research at the German Careerbuilder site ...www >>

October 27th, 2007 Media coverage (Südkurier): The Südkurier Newspaper wrote on respect and results of our research. ...pdf >>

October 17th, 2007 Gallery for respect pictures:Our gallery with relevant images related to the subject of respect has been set up now. Your recommendations and forwardings are most welcome. ...more >>

October 10th, 2007 Talk at AWO:Tilman Eckloff gave a presentation on a forum for hospital staff on the topic of respect in

the relation of leaders and their followers.

October 8th, 2007 Media coverage (Hamburger Abendblazz):The Hamburger Abendblatt Newspaper wrote about respect in the relation between leaders and their subordinates ...www >>

October 5th, 2007 Film "What's respect?":Moritz Meyer and his brother Florian asked this question on the occasion of the new "Lord of the Flies " production with pupils from diverse backgrounds at the Deutschen Schauspielhaus Theater ...video (high bandwith) >>    ...video (low bandwith) >> 

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September 29th, 2007 Media covergae (FOCUS-Online):

FOCUS-Online wrote on results of our research in "Respect as factor of success" ...www >>

May 9th-12th, 2007 Conference in Freiburg:Tilman Eckloff and Sebastian Zenker of the RespectResearchGroup present some works at the 11th Conference of the Section of Social Psychology. ...more >>

September 9th, 2007 Interview with Deutsches Schauspielhaus: Due to a new production of "Lord of the Flies" at Hamburg's Schauspielhaus theater, Niels van Quaquebeke was asked to provide some comments on the issue of respect (page 70) ... pdf >>

July 25th, 2007 Media coverage (Mopo): The Hamburg newspaper

Morgenpost writes on "Why respect pays off - Young researchers fight for more positive recognition in organizations" ...pdf >>

July 31st, 2007 Media coverage (Radio N-Joy): Why respect is more important than a salary raise. An interview with Niels van Quaquebeke ... mp3 >>

July 9th, 2007 Special Paper Series on Respect: Together with Prof. Erich H. Witte, we edit a special series on respect in the Gruppendynamik & Organisationsberatung Journal. The papers are provided in English ...more >>

June 18th, 2007 Colloquium in Tilburg: Niels van Quaquebeke presents his research on the egocentricity of

leader-categorization processes at the Center for Justice and Social Decision Making at the Tilburg University.

June 12th, 2007 Symposion in Rotterdam: Niels van Quaquebeke talks on the legitimization of leadership at the Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University) ... www >>

June 1th, 2007 Survey on respectful leadership:Big online-survey was launched to investigate the relationships between employees and their supervisors. Its aim is to identify the consequences of respectful leadership.

May 31st, 2007 Talk at Roundtable: TheRespectResearchGroup presented their works on "respected leaders" and "respectful

leadership" as part of the Hamburg Media Roundtable.

May 9th-12th, 2007 Conference in Stockholm: The RespectResearchGroup presents various works at the 13th Conference of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology. ...more >>

May 2nd, 2007 Media coverage (Deutsche Bank PWM) The Private Wealth Management magazine of Deutschen Bank reports in its newest issue on "values" on the work of the RespectResearchGroup ...pdf >>

April 27th-29h, 2007 Conference in New York: Niels van Quaquebeke presents part of his work on leader categorization at

the 22nd Annual Conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology in New York  ...more >>

April 20th, 2007 Open doors at the RespectResearchGroup:The RespectResearchGroup present its projects ...more >>

April 13th, 2007 How to found an independent research group? Together with the HARP group, we present some "lessons learned" to interested students and are available for a Q&A session afterwards. (10:00 to 12:00 at the University of Hamburg, Von Melle Park 5, Lecture Hall 4027).

March 28th-29th, 2007 Symposion in Aachen: Niels van Quaquebeke and Alice Buxton presented their works on the

relevance of ideal values and counter-idealvalues for businesses at the Leadership Meeting  ... more >>

March 10th, 2007 The value "respect" among youths: Niels van Quaquebeke in an interview with LizzyNet - online learning interatcive - 1. part ...more >>  2. part ....more >>

March 3rd, 2007 Distinguished!: Christina Mölders, member of the RespectResearchGroup, has been accepted by the prestigious German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). Our group comprises four stipends of that foundation by now.

Feb. 16th, 2007 Media coverage (Handelsblatt): The

Handelsblatt Newspaper reports on the "Who cares?" study in "Why respectful leaders are more important than salary" ... www >>

Jan. 13th, 2007 Symposion in Hamburg: At the Hamburg Symposion on Methodology of Social Psychology, Niels van Quaquebeke and Tilman Eckloff present how leadership processes are mediated by identification and how respectful leadership feeds into this process.

Jan. 11th, 2007 Why do humans need values?: In a panel discussion on the development of values Niels van Quaquebeke discusses with other scientist the topic from the perspectives of science. ... www >>

Jan. 4th, 2007 Media coverage (Stern):Stern Magazine and Stern online report on the "Who cares?" study of RespektReseachGroup in an article titled "Awful bosses" ... www >>

Jan. 3rd, 2007 "Who cares?:"Research report revealing that employees care more about respect at the worksplace than high salaries or job security ... more >>

Dec. 19th, 2006 "Are you my type of leader?":Research report on the ideal leader prototype in German companies and its consequences for employees' respect towards their bosses ... more >>

Dec. 18th, 2006 Ceremony on Town Hall of Hamburg:RespectResearchGroup was invited by the  Jörg Dräger (Hamburg's Senator of Science) to join a reception as one of the "365 Locations in Germany for 2007" ...www >>

Dec. 6th, 2006 Distinguished!:The RespectResearchGroup was chosen as an innovative "idea" by the German goverment iniative "Germany - Land of Ideas" ... www >>

Sept. 26th, 2006 Research support: IQ Medialab GmbH provides the RespectResearchGroup with the projectmanagement tool InLoox ... www >>

Sept. 25th, 2006 Research grant: Deutsche StiftungsTrust of the

Deutsche Bank supports a new project of the RespectResearchGroup "Young teachers facing new challenges: How respect can be gained and used in today's schools"... www >>

Sept. 17th-21st, 2006 Conference in Nuremberg: RespectResearchGroup present various research works as posters on the 45th Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) in Nuremberg... overview >>

Sept. 15th, 2006 Respect on campus: Victoria B. Robinson will organize a discussion forum on respect for pupils the age of 14 . The talk will be part of the Carneval of Cultures at the University of Hamburg...www >>

Aug. 2nd, 2006 Media coverage (Mini): Niels van Quaquebeke in an interview with the women's magazine Mini on "we demand respect". ... pdf >>

June 18th, 2006 Media coverage (ZDF):Tilman Eckloff in an interview with the ZDF-TV in a sunday morning show on "Did we lose respect?". ...www >>   ...video >>

June 9th, 2006 Survey on respectful leadership:Big online-survey was launched to investigate the relationships between employees and their supervisors. Its aim is to identify the criteria for and the consequences of respectful leadership. ...www >>

June 9th, 2006 Research grant: Research Funding Department of

the University of Hamburg grants the RespectResearchGroup a fund of 1000,- Euro.

June 8th, 2006 New online guestboook:New guestbook feature was implented so that you can leave comments and inspirations for our research. ... more >>

June 1th, 2006 Too old? Rejected!:Valentin Heyde, Niels van Quaquebeke, Matthias Graf and Tilman Eckloff in an interview with Astrid Nourney in the book:  To old?  Rejected!  Reports out of Germany over the ageing. ...www >>

Mai 16th, 2006 Respect among pupils: Marco Bemmlotte gave a talk about "respect at school" within the schoolproject "Respect" at

the comprehensive school in Geesthacht. Together with pupils of the 10th grade they derived respectful behavior.

April 27th, 2006 Media coverage (Bild):Tilman Eckloff in an interview with Bild-Woche in a respect-report. ...pdf >>

March 16th, 2006 Research grant: Fund for innovations at the University of Hamburg grants 10.000,- Euro for the group's infrastructure.

Jan. 1st, 2006 Media coverage (SW3):Tilman Eckloff in an interview with SWR3 in a radio special on respect.  ...www >>

Dec. 20th, 2005 Research grant: Stiftung Wertevolle Zukunft

(Foundation for a future with values) sponsors a 75.000,- Euro grant for the group's research undertakings: ...www >>

Dec. 6th, 2005 Media coverage (Deutschlandradia Kultur):Niels van Quaquebeke in an interview with the Deutschlandradio Kultur (radio broadcast) on respect in organizations and today's society.

Dec. 1st, 2005 Media coverage (Stern): Some research of the RespectResearchGroup is presented as part of the Stern Magazine series on "The new yearning for old values".

Nov. 30th, 2005 Media coverage (T-Online Business): Niels van Quaquebeke in an interview with T-Online Business Personnel on value management in organizations ...www >>

Oct. 29th, 2005 Research grant: The "Stiftung Wertevolle Zukunft" (Foundation for a future with values) sponsors a 2000,- Euro grant for the group's research undertakings: ...www >>

Oct. 25th, 2005 Study on identification processes: Joint study of the University of Hamburg and the LMU University of Munich investigates about the biggest identification killers and promoters in organisations.

Pressrelease on the study: ...www >>

May 25th, 2005 Press release: Public Relations Department of the University of Hamburg features a press release on the big online survey "relationships between employees and their supervisors"...www >>

May 21st, 2005 Research grant: Research Funding Department of the University of Hamburg grants the RespectResearchGroup a fund of 750,- Euro.

May 20th, 2005 Survey on respect for leaders:Big online-survey way launched to investigate the different relationships between employees and their supervisors. Its aim is to analyse constellation which on the one hand produce a very powerful dyad and on the other pointing out conditions when one should be aware that the relationship might be toxic and inefficient for the whole team or organisational performance. 

March 24th, 2005, Media coverage (duz-Magazine):As part of their report on innovation in science the duz-magazine describes the

RespectResearchGroup and its difficulties fitting into the tradtional German research funding system.

Dec. 9th,  2004, Distinguished!:Niels van Quaquebeke, a PhD- candidate in the RespectResearchGroup, received a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation.

Dec.  6th, 2004, Media coverage (E-Fellows):RespectResearchGroup was introduced on the the stipend's initiative section of the e-fellows website ...www >>

Nov.  20th, 2004, Big online study:RespectResearchGroup started a first big online questionaire. Here is the link ...www >>

May  17th-19th, 2004, Conference in HamburgThe RespectReasearchGroup gave a presentation on a forum for businessmen on the topic „Respect in Leadership: Why it pays off. How you recognize it. How you train it.“

Download the congress programm

Oct. 1st, 2003, Homepage online:Team of the RespectResearchGroup looks forward to all visitors, their interests, proposals, contacts and comments.

Aug. 25th, 2003, Office opened:Department of Social Psychology at the University of Hamburg provided the RespectResearchGroup with rooms and sufficient infrastructure.

May 29th, 2003, Founding of the RespectResearchGroup:At the University of Hamburg five young scientists from several academic fields formed the research group with the aim of exploring the topic of Respect.