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Christian Pirker

Christian Pirker
Independent Researcher · Management

Doctor of Philosophy
I am currently working on the topic of sustainable enterprise.

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Introduction
Christian Pirker currently works at Christian Pirker KG. Our main topics are Leadership, Management Competence, Change Management and Digital Transformation. Our typical methods are empirical social research and participatory observation. My current topic is the deepening of the theory of management competence.
Additional affiliations
April 2021 - July 2024
EURO-FH
Position
  • Lecturer
Description
  • I accompany students in the modules Digital Work & Collaboration, Digital Transformation and Digital Work. In addition, I am a lecturer in the area of scientific work, digital transformation and new work in the new online evening course. I also supervise bachelor's and master's theses.
October 2019 - present
University of Graz
Position
  • Lecturer
Description
  • IP Awareness raising for waste prevention, IP Hard Facts of Hardware - Sustainability Impacts of Computers, IP Alternative packaging concepts and packaging avoidance for supermarkets, IP We create the world-space IP Packaging reduction in the supermarket, Change Management and Learning for Sustainability, IP Africa! Beyond clichés and stereotypes Change Management and Learning for Sustainability, Interdisciplinary Practical Training Plastic Planet, Interdisciplinary Practice Reflection
July 1998 - present
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Historische Pädagogik und Schulgeschichte (ÖGHPS)
Position
  • CEO
Description
  • The ÖGHPS is the leading scientific association for the topics of educational history and historical educational research in Austria. I have been a member since 1998, president of the ÖGHPS since 2020, and since October 2021 now editor of the "Retrospektiven in Sachen Bildung", the leading educational history series in Austria. Besides the scientific work, the ÖGHPS tries to anchor its topics in society and to communicate them for the citizens.
Education
October 2006 - November 2017
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
Field of study
  • Dr.-Studium der Philosophie Pädagogik
October 1993 - February 1998
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
Field of study
  • Angewandte Betriebswirtschaft mit Berufs- und Betriebspädagogik

Publications

Publications (41)
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What is management competence? How and where will management competence mediated? An empirical Study on management competence. The result are eight elements of management competence: "System and Control", "Professional", "Personality", "Team", "Interaction", "Responsibility", "Customer and Market" and "Learning and Future ". The study shows the imp...
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Interdisciplinary Practical Trainings (IPs) as a service-learning approach link higher education and the public to foster education for sustainability in both groups. In IPs, students work on a specific Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-related topic and acquire knowledge and skills for it. They also engage in devising methods of addressing the pu...
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The Science Elevator Pitch as a possible innovative pedagogical tool in the didactics of historical education.
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In the field of care management, there have been various new developments in recent years. These include, on the one hand, the consistent focus in care management on the core topic of management competencies and, on the other hand, the focus on digital transformation and the term "Care 4.0". This consistent attitude of the nursing staff in the digi...
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Contemporary companies have to master the handling of increasing dynamics and complexity. For this, the systems approach offers for a long time the right theory and the necessary tools to successfully deal with high dynamics and complexity. In practice, intelligent companies are needed that demonstrate a high degree of viability and sustainability....
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The controversy surrounding Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) using the example of the representation of his person and pedagogy in selected encyclopedias of their time.
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The term "care with heart" is widely used in the practice of healthcare and nursing. On the one hand he will really seen as a matter of the heart and lived intensively. On the other hand, it is also viewed critically by some. "Strong care" is a term with which I have tried the nursing staff as well as possible and self-confidently to prepare for th...
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The term "Pflege 4.0" has now become established in the practice of health care. It describes, following the term "Industrie 4.0", the topic "Digitisation in care" good and to the point. The question is always: "How much digitisation needs nursing?" As a management consultant and keynote speaker I have critically examined the term "Industrie 4.0"...
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The term "personnel development" was a much-used term in the 1990s, which never had the meaning in practice as the intensive academic discussion might have suggested. It never came to pass that the then ideal of the Learning Organization (Senge 1990, Rieckmann 1997, Pirker 1998) was able to assert itself across the board. It is therefore all the mo...
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In recent years, the author has repeatedly and intensively dealt with the topic of "Effective Learning in Management". The starting point of the in-depth employment was the own dissertation on the topic "management competence" with the question: What is management competence? How and where is the management competence assigned? (Pirker 2017) The r...
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I chose this topic because Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1883-1950) has always fascinated me. The fact that we both have the same day (February 8) birthday, there is an additional connection from my side. In my publication "Joseph A. Schumpeter and the study of social science. A Contribution to the Austrian History of Science "(1999) I first dealt with...
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The results of the empirical study on management competence are now being implemented in particular in the practice of management education. This applies to various specialist areas, including nursing and care management. There are also new scientific publications that deal both with the eight "elements of management competence" and the questions...
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In recent years, the concept of "competence" has developed into an of the most used and popular terms in science, society, economy, pedagogy and in care. The term has a problem, that all fashion terms have in common. It becomes unclear and used blurred, it is used in an inflationary manner and its quality suffers from its popularity. The work show...
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Management, management competence and nursing management have arrived as terms in nursing. However, they are often used with little differentiation. Accordingly, an awareness of the importance of management in nursing and, above all, of the necessary management skills must be developed.
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Effective learning is becoming increasingly important in our organisations. This is especially true for effective learning in management. On the one hand it is important to keep up with the times and on the other hand not to take part in any nonsense. However, it is much more a matter of understanding management correctly and of making learning in...
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Today, effective change management is more up-to-date and important than ever before. The increasing dynamics and complexity in business and society as well as globalization and digitization make effective change management a central element of successful corporate development.
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Industry 4.0 is one of the buzzwords of our time. The term is often associated with ambiguity and fear of change as well as the loss of one's own job. However, it is about creating clarity and orientation, as well as actively tackling the future and shaping it yourself. This is best done with a human-oriented approach, with heart, brain and hand as...
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Management has become a widely used term. Sometimes it has even become a common term that is used unconsciously and uncritically over and over again. However, it is important to understand management correctly and to develop a corresponding awareness of the importance of management in nursing. This applies in particular to management in nursing and...
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The European Qualifications Framework as an academic imperative. The European Qualifications Framework for lifelong learning (EQF) has achieved its objective and created a single framework for classifying different qualifications across the European Union. The question of the academic imperative shows that a very high demand is placed on the three...
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From me to us. How you as an EPU address your customers correctly.
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The four pedagogical dimensions of management. From management competence to management pedagogy.
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Industry 4.0 meets strong care
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Industry 4.0 is one of the buzzwords of our time. The term is often associated with ambiguity and fear of change and the loss of one's own job. However, it is particularly important in the area of care, to create clarity and orientation as well as to actively shape the future and design them yourself. This happens on best with a people-oriented app...
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Fichte establishes the close relationship between philosophy and being human. In the eyes of his contemporaries, he was possessed of an insane belief in the creative power of the will. Störig points out at this point that Fichte said about himself that he knew only one need, namely to act and to act beyond himself. This is reflected in his philosop...
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How much state does education need? Fichte against the pedagogical chaos.
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Industry 4.0 and the changing world of work and learning.
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Effective leadership through self leadership with heart, brain and hand.
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On the attempt to formalise informal learning between lifelong learning (LLL), globalisation and the search for competences.
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Entrepreneur coaching as the pulse beat of successful corporate development.
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Is efficiency a contemporary educational goal?
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