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The RespectResearchGroup was founded in 2003 as a multidisciplinary research group and think tank. In our work, we investigate the essences and functions of different kinds of interpersonal respect in various domains, such as business, education, or society in general. Read here why ... more >>

March 8th, 2012 Article (JPMD):Dr. Sebastian Zenker and Adrian Seigis publish their new paper "Respect and the City: Resident Participation in Place Marketing" in the Journal of Place Management and Development. ...www >>

February 20th, 2012 Echo (DRadio): Prof. Dr. Niels Van Quaquebeke and Dr. Tilman Eckloff give an interview on DRadio on "Respect - Schmiermittel unserer Gesellschaft" (respect, grease of society):  ...www >>

February 13th, 2012 Event (Colloquium): The RespectResearchGroup invites graduates, doctoral students, and post-docs to apply for our 5th interdisciplinary colloquium, this time on the topic of "Learning respect". It will take place from the

12th to the 15th of July in Hamburg and Gut Siggen near the Baltic Sea. See the Call for Papers here [in German] ...pdf >>

February 6th, 2012 Event (PhD Defense): Matthias Graf successfully defended his PhD thesis on the influences of ideal values and counter-ideal values on the perceptions and behaviors of leaders and followers. Congratulations!

January 20th-21st, 2012 Congress in Utrecht: At the International Place Branding Conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands, Dr. Sebastian Zenker presented parts of his research about "respect and the city". ...www >>

November 7th, 2011 Echo:Julia Johannsen of the RespectResearchGroup together with the group ExzellenzCampus of the ThinkTank „stiftung neue verantwortung” present their policy brief on the German Exzellenzinitiative at the final presentation at October, 28th in Berlin.

November 1st, 2011 Echo (manager magazin): The manager magazin prints future-perspectives on society, world economy and management developed in a participative process by Prof. Dr. Niels Van Quaquebeke, Dr. Tilman Eckloff and others.

October 31th, 2011 movie, photo, and text on respect: Participants of the summer academy 2011 in Greifswald intensively worked on

respect on a broad multimedia base. You can find the final outcome here ...more >>

October 28th, 2011 Event (round-table discussion): Dr. Tilman Eckloff leads a round-table discussion of the 15th Alumni-dinner of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes.

October 20th, 2011 Echo (Radio):Dr Tilman Eckloff visits the radio show "Maybe, I don't know yet - on bindingness" on SWR2 ...mp3 >>

October 17th, 2011 Event (Presentation): Dr. Sebastian Zenker gives a talk about "Respect and the City - New Challenges for Place Marketing" for the Stiftung Weltweite Wissenschaft of the University of Hamburg.

September 26th-28th, 2011 Event (Symposium):Dr Tilman Eckloff gives a talk "on the 'good' handling of conflicts" on the interdisciplinary symposium "Dynamics of moral" at Dornhaus castle.

September 14th-16th, 2011 Conference in Linz: Dr. Tilman Eckloff is invited to talk at the 14th Conference of the DeGEval - Society for Evaluation.

September 1st, 2011 Conference proceedings: The conference proceedings of the interdisciplinary research colloquium hosted by the RespectResearchGroup in July are now available [in German] ...pdf >>

August 27th, 2011 Echo (Hamburger Abendblatt): The article cites research of the RespectResearchGroup that respect is the most important ingredient of employee motivation. ... www >>

August 26th, 2011 Echo (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung): The FAZ prints and interview with Prof. Dr. Niels Van Quaquebeke in which he argues why it is important to consider counter-ideals next to ideals in corporate communication. ... www >> 

August 25th, 2011 Echo (Financial Times Deutschland): The German Financial Times describes a study authored by Matthias Graf und Prof. Dr. Niels Van Quaquebeke on the relevance of counter-ideal values next to ideal values in leadership communication. ... www >>

July 21st-24th, 2011 Event (Colloquium): The RespectResearchGroup invites external graduates, doctoral students, and post-docs to apply for our fourth interdisciplinary colloquium. This time on the topic of "The communication of recognition". It will take place from the 21st to the 24th of July in Hamburg and Gut Siggen near the Baltic Sea. See the Call for papers here   ... pdf >>

July 12th Article (Personalführung): In the latest issue of the German journal "Personalführung" Christina Mölders and Prof. Dr. Niels Van Quaquebeke describe the ])obstacles women have to face on their way to leadership positions. (original article here [in German])  ... pdf >>

June 24th, 2011 Echo (WirtschaftsBlatt): The Austrian business newspaper writes about the interview with Prof. Dr. Niels Van Quaquebeke on the topic of respect  ... www >>

June 11th, 2011 Change in Management: Dr. Tilman Eckloff passes on his management position to Christina Mölders.

May 26th, 2011 Event (PhD Defense): Jan Borkowski has successfully defended his PhD thesis on Respectful Leadership. Congratulations!

May 10th-11th, 2011 Service (Presentation): Jan Borkowski was invited to give a presentation on respectful leadership for the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung at their all-staff meetings at St. Augustin and Berlin.

May 1st, 2011 Research grant: The German Research Council (DFG) supports the research about resident-city identification by Dr. Sebastian Zenker with a two years full post-doc fellowship.

April 29th, 2011 Echo (brand eins): Wolf Lotter refers in his lead article on respect to the interview with Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke ... www >>

April 28th-May 3rd, 2011 Symposium in St Gallen: At session V of

the Transatlantic Doctoral Academy on Corporate Responsibility, Jan Borkowski presented his work on respectful leadership. ...www >>

March 23rd, 2011 Website (Newsletter): The new issue of our newsletter has just been sent out. You can also find it here ... more >>

March 17th, 2011 Echo (Erasmus Centre for Leadership Studies): The center's website features an article on the research done by RespectResearchGroup members Suzanne van Gils and Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke on ethical leadership ... www >>

March 9th, 2011 Echo (Gehirn und Geist): The magazine extensively reports on the perception experiment conducted by

Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke and Anja Schmerling on the malleability of the picture of women in leadership positions (original article here) ... pdf >>

March 7th, 2011 Echo (Die BKK): The magazine describes some of the research on respect at the workplace conducted by the RespectResearchGroup ... pdf >>

February 16th, 2011 Article (RSM Insight): Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke sums up some of the results on respectful leadership ... pdf >>

February 13th, 2011 Website (Facebook):You are invited to join our newly founded Facebook group RespectResearchGroup and discuss

with us... www >>

January 20th-22nd, 2011 Congress in Bogota: At the 2nd International Place Branding Conference in Bogota, Columbia, Dr. Sebastian Zenker  presented parts of his research. ...www >>

January 11th, 2011 Echo (FAZ): The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes about a perception experiment by  Dr. Niels van Quaquebeke and Anja Schmerling on the malleability of people's view of women in leadership (original article here) ... pdf >>  ...www >>

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