Current Research Interests

• HRM in Healthcare Institutions
• Strategic HRM; HRM Systems

Publications, Conference & Workshop Contributions

Education

• 2023: Master of Science (M.Sc.), Vocationomics, Chemnitz University of Technology
• 2022: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business Administration and Economics, Chemnitz University of Technology
• 2010: Completion of vocational training as hotel specialist, Hilton Dresden
• 2007: Abitur, Lessing-Gymnasium Hohenstein-Ernstthal

Work Experience

• since Jan 2024: Research Associate, Chair of Human Resource Management and Leadership Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
• Mar 2023 – Dec 2023: Teacher, BBS Gerd Condé Competency-Center HOGA, Chemnitz
• Apr 2022 – Jul 2023: Student Assistant, Chair of Innovation and Technology Management, Chemnitz University of Technology
• Dec 2016 – Sep 2017: Sales and Personnel Planner, Chemnitz
• Mar 2015 -  Feb 2016: Accounts Receivable Clerk and Supervisor, Hilton Vienna
• Apr 2014 – Feb 2015: Maternal Leave
• Jul 2011 – Feb 2015: Front Desk Clerk and Supervisor, Renaissance Wien Hotel, Vienna
• Jul 2010 – Jun 2011: Front Office Agent, Le Méridien Grand Hotel, Nuremberg
• Aug 2007 – Jun 2010: Vocational Training, Hilton Dresden

Academic Self-Administration

• since May 2024: Academic Advisor, Master "Management and Organization Studies"
• since May 2024: Member, Study Commission Master "Management and Organization Studies"
• since May 2024: Advisory Member, Examination Board Master "Management and Organization Studies"

Teaching Portfolio

Master

• Human Resource Management (Tutorial) (German)
• New Concepts of Leadership (Seminar) (English)
• Inter|Ventio (Business Simulation) (German / English)
• Master Project (German / English)
• Supervision of Master Theses (German / English)

Bachelor

• Supervision of Bachelor Theses (German / English)

Current Research Interests

• Sustainable HRM
• Meaningful Work
• HRM in Family Firms
• Strategic HRM; HRM Systems
   

Publications & Conference Contributions

• Sauer, H., Hansen, N. K., & Swart, J. (2024, June 25–28). Addressing sustainability through HRM practices: A qualitative study of HRM configurations in small and medium-sized family firms [Conference presentation]. European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference 2024, Bath, UK.
   
• Sauer, H., & Hansen, N. K. (2023, September 21–22). Antecedents and adoption of a common good HRM approach in small- and medium-sized family firms [Conference presentation]. Herbstworkshop der WK Personal, Berlin, Germany.
   
• Sauer, H., & Hansen, N. K. (2023, July 6–8). Antecedents and adoption of a common good HRM approach in small- and medium-sized family firms [Conference presentation]. 39^th EGOS Colloquium, Cagliari, Italy.
   
• Fronczek, S., Sauer, H., & Hansen, N. K. (2023, July 6–8). Meaningful work during telework: A qualitative study on the influence of leaders’ behaviors on meaningful work during working from home [Conference presentation]. 39^th EGOS Colloquium, Cagliari, Italy.
   
• Huber, C. M., & Sauer, H. (2023, June 20–22). Sufficiency within neoliberal academia: Squaring the circle? [Conference presentation]. 13th International Critical Management Studies (ICMS) Conference, Nottingham, UK.
   
• Sauer, H., & Hansen, N. K. (2022, September 29–30). Hybrid forms of human resource management systems: A qualitative study of family firms in Germany [Conference presentation]. Herbstworkshop der WK Personal, Berlin, Germany.
   
• Fronczek, S., Sauer, H., & Hansen, N. K. (2022, September 29–30). The influence of leaders on meaningful work during working from home: A qualitative study [Conference presentation]. Herbstworkshop der WK Personal, Berlin, Germany.
   
• Fronczek, S., Sauer, H., & Hansen, N. K. (2022, July 7–9). Meaningful work during remote work: A qualitative study on how e-leaders can influence the work meaningfulness of their employees [Conference presentation]. 38^th EGOS Colloquium, Vienna, Austria.
   
• Fronczek, S., Sauer, H., & Hansen, N. K. (2022, June 15–17). A qualitative empirical analysis of the influence of virtual leaders on their employees' perception of meaningful work [Conference presentation]. European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference 2022, Winterthur, Switzerland.
   
• Sauer, H., Hansen, N. K., Kulachek, J., Maurer, C., & Reichel, L. (2022, June 15–17). Human resource management system hybrids in family firms: A qualitative study of small and medium-sized companies in Germany [Conference presentation]. European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference 2022, Winterthur, Switzerland.
   
• Hansen, N. K., Sauer, H., & Swart, J. (2021, September 16–17). Challenges and relevance of a sustainable HRM approach for law enforcement agencies in the post-Covid era: The empirical case of a German state ministry [Conference presentation]. Herbstworkshop der WK Personal, Düsseldorf, Germany.
   
• Huber, C. M., & Sauer, H. (2021). The lack of sufficiency among management researchers through the institutionalization of air travel. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2021(1). https://doi.org/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.15861abstract
   
• Huber, C. M., & Sauer, H. (2021, July 29–August 4). The lack of sufficiency among management researchers through the institutionalization of air travel [Conference presentation]. 81st Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic).
   
• Sauer, H., & Cmok, K. (2020). Knowledge advantage through social software "Slack"? Opportunities and challenges for knowledge management in Enterprise 2.0. In G. Schiuma (Ed.), IFKAD 2020. Knowledge in Digital Age. Proceedings (pp. 794–804). https://www.ifkad.org/proceedings-eBooks/eBook-ifkad-2020/
   
• Sauer, H., & Cmok, K. (2020, September 09–11). Knowledge advantage through social software "Slack"? Opportunities and challenges for knowledge management in Enterprise 2.0 [Conference presentation]. 15th International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics (IFKAD), Matera, Italy (virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic).
   
• Huber, C. M., & Sauer, H. (2020, May 20–23). Take a look in the mirror: Questioning scientific sufficiency [Conference presentation]. 15th Organization Studies Workshop, Chania, Greece (virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic).
   

Education

• 2018: Master of Science (M.Sc.), Management and Organization Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
• 2016: Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Business Administration and Economics, Chemnitz University of Technology
• 2012: Abitur, Friedrich-Spee-Gymnasium
   

Work Experience

• since Aug 2024: Parental leave
• since Feb 2019: Research Associate, Chair of Human Resource Management and Leadership Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
• since Jul 2019: Lecturer, TUCed – An-Institut für Transfer und Weiterbildung GmbH
• Aug 2016 – Jan 2019: Student Assistant, Chair of Human Resource Management and Leadership Studies, Chemnitz University of Technology
   

Academic Self-Administration

• Jun 2019 – May 2024: Academic Advisor, Master "Management and Organization Studies"
• Jun 2019 – May 2024: Member, Study Commission Master "Management and Organization Studies"
• Jun 2019 – May 2024: Advisory Member, Examination Board Master "Management and Organization Studies"
   

Teaching Portfolio

Master

• New Theories and Concepts of Leadership (Tutorial) (German)
• HRM Research (Seminar) (English)
• Inter|Ventio (Business Simulation) (German / English)
• Master Projects (German / English)
  • Sustainable HRM (Summer 24 – Winter 24/25)
  • Challenges in implementing Common Good HRM-Systems (Summer 23 – Winter 23/24)
  • Meaningful Leadership in Public Administration (Summer 23 – Winter 23/24)
  • HRM Systems in Family Firms (Summer 22 – Winter 22/23)
  • Employer Branding in the Generation Z (Summer 21 – Winter 21/22)
  • Perception and implementation of meaningful work (Summer 21 – Winter 21/22)
  • Controll and Commitment HRM-Systems (Summer 20 – Winter 20/21)
  • Remote Work & Covid-19 – Implications for the design of sustainable HRM (Summer 20 – Winter 20/21)
• Supervision of Master Theses (German / English)

Bachelor

• Seminars & Projects (German)
  • Sustainable Human Resource Management
  • Meaningful Work
  • Knowledge management in healthcare
  • Leadership lessons from extreme contexts
• Supervision of Bachelor Theses (German / English)
   

Memberships

• since 2022: European Academy of Management (OB & HRM | FABR)
• 2022 – 2024: European Group of Organization Studies
• 2021 – 2023: Academy of Management (HRM | CMS)

Prof. Dr. Peter Pawlowsky is professor of Personnel Management and Leadership Studies at Chemnitz University of Technology and director of the Research Institute for Organizational Competence and Strategy (FOKUS). He studied Economics and Social Sciences at the University of Gothenborg, Sweden; the Universidad Autonoma de Honduras in Tegucigalpa, the University of California San Diego in the US; and the Georg August University in Göttingen, Germany. His Ph.D. in Business Administration ("summa cum laude") is obtained from The Free University of Berlin and his "venia legendi" (Habilitation) from the University of Paderborn, Germany. Prof. Pawlowsky has held positions as an Executive Programme Director for Corporate Leadership issues at the Bertelsmann Foundation in Gütersloh, as Assistant Professor and Managing Director of the Research Centre on Labor Economics - Behavioral Economics - Free University of Berlin. Later, he was appointed as full professor in Personnel Management and Leadership Studies at Chemnitz University of Technology in 1994.

In 1998, Peter Pawlowsky stayed at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), School of Knowledge Science, Hokuriku as a visiting professor and has received several defined appointment offers as a full professor, inter alia, from the Free University Berlin (2004) and the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen (2003). He is co-founder and president of the German Society for Knowledge Management 2001-2003, and he was appointed as vice president for the Commission on Learning in Further Training Institutions of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMFT) in 2006. He has played an active role in the New Club of Paris developing concepts for intellectual capital management (ICM) and has conducted large studies on the development of KM Knowledge Management (KM) and ICM in the German economy. In 2001 Prof. Pawlowsky initiated the first European Master's Program in Knowledge Management and became course director of the CUT "Executive Master of Knowledge Management" program between 2004 and 2006. He has been successful in fund raising and has been playing a leading role in several international projects in knowledge management and high performance research.

Peter Pawlowsky has an extensive record of consulting activities, involving companies and public organizations. His experience of organizational practice has helped him to teach students, professionals and managers, and to develop new approaches to Human Resource Management and organizational learning. He has developed several courses and program curriculums and taught, inter alia, at the Free University Berlin, University of St. Gallen, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, AutoUni Volkswagen. He has taught a wide range of courses, ranging from business administration and human resources management to knowledge management, organizational change, leadership and organizational behavior to students of Economics, Business Administration, Engineering, Psychology and Sociology. He has been invited to hundreds of talks and keynotes in German as well as international conferences and workshops. Furthermore, he is listed in the London Speaker Bureau, as one of the leading researchers in the field of high performance.

Peter Pawlowsky has written more than 150 scientific and professional publications, including several books, and he was active in dozens of affiliations and assignments as liaison professor for the Foundation of the German Economy Foundation (Stiftung der deutschen Wirtschaft e. V.), in the Executive Board of the Institute for Innovation Management and Personnel Development CUT; as Member of the Scientific Policy Advisory Group "FORUM Ost" SPD (German Social Democrat Party); as member of the FIBAA (Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation) Accreditation Team; as Reviewer & Editorial Board Member for the Journal for East European Management Studies, Organisational Studies- Journal of Intellectual Capital, Management Revue and ZfP Zeitschrift für Personalforschung.

Prof. Peter Pawlowsky has worked on a wide range of topics in labour market issues, meaning of work, leadership, personnel development and training, organisational learning and knowledge management. Since 2000, his focus has been on high performance management and excellence in culture, sports, business and emergency operation as well as on the development of transfer trainings that promote learning from high performance teams. This research has received significant public attention including a ZDF-TV documentation ("Abenteuer Wissen": The secrets of high performance). Recently, his research team has focused on learning in emergency and disaster management systems.

Habilitation treatise

Publications