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Page from 17. April 2019
Executive Search
Excellence is essential. Kienbaum is excellently positioned and has decades of experience in filling top management positions as a personnel consultancy and recruitment agency. We know the challenges faced by CEOs, owners, supervisory boards and personnel managers and we can help you to find suitable personne…
Pressemitteilung from 31. October 2018
André Paetzel Is Leaving Grey to Become Head of Brand at Kienbaum // Nicole Mai Joins Executive Search
In November, the HR and management consultancy company Kienbaum will be welcoming two seasoned experts from the media, digital, and start-up sector to its team: brand and digital expert André Paetzel is starting as head of brand in Cologne on November 1, and Nicole Mai will be joining the Hamburg office as d…
Referenz from 14. March 2019
Candidate search for Webasto with special requirements
The company sought an experienced Head of HR with language skills that included Slovakian, German, English and ideally Hungarian for a specific location in Slovakia where the majority of residents regard themselves as Hungarian and speak Hungarian. We recruited an experienced HR generalist with expertise i…
Pressemitteilung from 17. December 2018
This Year, Hungarians’ Basic Salaries Rose by an Average of 7.5 percent
The Hungarian economy is continuing to boom. In fall 2018, employment reached its highest level since the country’s transition from Communism over 25 years ago, while unemployment fell to its lowest level in the same period. That’s according to the 2018 Hungary Salary Report recently published by the HR a…
Page from 22. February 2019
Services
With our high-quality consulting services in the areas of Leadership Advisory, Management Consulting and Empowerment & Acceleration. We will take your organization further or support you in the next step of your career. Respectfully. Binding. Result oriented.
Pressemitteilung from 4. April 2018
DAX30 Bosses earn on Average 6.2 Million EUR
Compensation for DAX30 executive boards grew in the past year when compared to the year before, with executive chairpersons earning 6.2 million EUR on average, a rise in guaranteed total direct compensation of 7.7%. For other board members, the figures were slightly lower, with an average rise of 4.9% on the …
Pressemitteilung from 22. January 2018
Only One in Three Companies Offer Innovative Career Tracks for Talents
Many companies have overhauled their organizational structures, but when it comes to talent management they’re still doing things the same old way. Only one in three companies allow employees to develop outside of established career tracks, and almost 70% have talent management practices that are aimed squa…
Page from 26. February 2019
Compensation & Performance Management
Our compensation and performance management systems takes into consideration an operating model in combination with control logic and effective means of motivation control. These can involve monetary incentive systems as well as non-monetary leadership and feedback principles that creates a favorable environ…
Page from 23. April 2019
Accelerator
The Kienbaum Accelerator is an innovative approach to corporate leadership: Creation of a clear focus on the strategic agenda, agile work structures and enthusiasm for change on the part of management and the important key individuals – this approach will enable companies to be more nimble and precise in ta…
Page from 24. September 2019
Financial Services
Page from 27. November 2018
Executive NewPlacement & Career Consulting
Our goal is to optimally position you as an executive in your career in times of digital change – whether through Career Consulting in an existing employment relationship or with the help of Executive NewPlacement as a springboard to new professional success.
Page from 27. November 2018
Assessment Services
In addition to management assessments, we support your company in the development and step-by-step implementation of sustainable aptitude diagnostic assessment processes, tools and instruments as well as the corresponding qualification of your employees. In addition, we advise and accompany you in the identif…
Pressemitteilung from 19. November 2018
Flexible, Hierarchical, Digital? Managers and Employees Experience Their Work Very Differently
Workflows are speeding up, people can connect with colleagues around the world in a matter of seconds, and processes are constantly being reassessed: the digital revolution is still ongoing, but it has already had a massive impact on the world of work. How have these changes affected managers’ and professio…
Pressemitteilung from 3. July 2018
Attractive Fringe Benefits Draw Top Talents to Austrian Businesses
Whether a company bike, childcare or a fitness studio, fringe benefits are on everybody’s tongue. In fact, four out of five Austrian businesses consider fringe benefits to be an important part of their overall compensation packages. It is a well-known fact that monetary incentive systems are effective, but i…
Pressemitteilung from 28. November 2018
Managing Directors Earn 3.4% More
The salaries of German executive directors continue to increase, with companies raising executive directors’ salaries by an average of 3.4% this year—the figure for the previous year was 3.3%, according to a recent study by consultancy firm Kienbaum. On average, regular members of the executive management…
Blog-Beitrag from 29. May 2018
Candidate Experience Matters
Candidate Experience continues to be a hot topic in talent acquisition, and with good reason. In brief (and brevity is very much called for considering the many definitions of the term that can be encountered), the concept of Candidate Experience refers to overall impressions and perceptions of the candidate …
Blog-Beitrag from 25. June 2018
A path towards more fairness in compensation strategies?
Since the “Loi Sapin II”’ came in force in March 2017, a major change in France on the “Say on Pay” has been introduced, with an even stricter framework for executive compensation than the EU Shareholders’ Rights directive. During the 2017 annual general meetings in France (SBF 120 companies), 88% …
Blog-Beitrag from 1. October 2019
Securing appropriate human resources for international companies in Japan
After more than six years since the introduction of Premier Minister Shinzo Abe’s economic reform package “Abenomics” and with the Olympic Games in Tokio coming up, it is time to take a closer look at the 6,852 islands encompassing East Asian state of Japan. As the world’s third largest market and one…
Profil from 4. April 2019
Jörg Breiski
Jörg Breiski has proven expertise in the areas of executive search and management diagnostics. He works primarily with medium-sized international companies in the successful filling of key vacancies up to director/board member levels. He has more than 15 years …
Referenz from 15. March 2019
Replacement of Advisory Board for Merz
When Merz sought a new candidate for its Advisory Board, our board services team quickly and straightforwardly made the connections.
Referenz from 15. March 2019
Replacement for Hamborner Reit AG at Supervisory Board
Our urgent task was to find an appropriate candidate with the necessary skill set for the Supervisory Board in time to be approved by the General Meeting in April 2018. From the perspective of professional background, the challenge consisted of the narrowly focused competency profile of the new member of the …
Pressemitteilung from 17. April 2018
Supervisory Boards — Values in the Economy Beginning to Stabilize
Think that supervisory boards just run on the spot? Or that regulations are paralyzing inspectors? Quite the opposite in fact. The role of the supervisory board is in a state of flux, with new challenges and regulatory changes both expanding and limiting the breadth of responsibilities for top decision makers…
Page from 4. December 2018
Art and Kienbaum
The Kienbaum Collection, which has been compiled by Jochen Kienbaum since the 1970s, comprises around 1,500 works of contemporary art, including paintings, sculptures, objects and works on paper. Under the term Color and Abstraction, the collection brings together works of European and American artists. The c…
Page from 27. November 2018
Corporate Learning & Academy Building
Digitalization, new work, leadership and future HR needs are immensely challenging issues for executives and management. They are faced with the need to transform themselves and their employees into entrepreneurs within the company and to promote innovations in processes, products and services. They can be su…
Page from 23. April 2019
Corporate Acceleration & Transformation Engine
The pace of change in markets, technologies and customer behavior has increased significantly – not only in Germany. We see this as an opportunity for our own advancement and, with this unique program, we support our customers in developing new business models, responding to converging markets and makin…
Pressemitteilung from 12. April 2018
Demands on Supervisory Boards are Rising even in SMEs while Compensation is Lagging Behind
The role of the supervisory board in corporate management is gaining in importance, with boards having a considerable influence over the future development of companies through staffing and incentivization of the executive board. Given the valuable role of the supervisors, the compensation given to them fails…
Publikation from 18. December 2018
Findings on the maturity level of the HR function in agile transformation
Kienbaum and DGFP have used a framework model for the agile HR function to determine the current maturity level of HR and personnel management in the context of its agile transformation. In a survey between HR personnel from 118 companies in Germany, strengths and development needs regarding agile HR methods,…
Pressemitteilung from 4. October 2018
In 2019, German Salaries Are Forecast to Rise by an Average of 3.1 percent
In 2019, salaries in Europe and worldwide are forecast to rise, in some cases significantly. The steepest nominal pay increase will be in Poland (3.8%), with Austria (3.2%) and Germany (3.1%) slightly behind. At the other end of the scale, the forecast salary growth for Switzerland is far lower, at 1.2%. Sala…
Publikation from 26. September 2017
Performance Management in Transformation
Performance management is changing and performance management processes are on the agenda of the vast majority of companies. This is confirmed by the participants in our study. The importance in companies will continue to grow and many plan short-term changes.
Blog-Beitrag from 31. August 2018
Low unemployment in the Czech and Slovak Republics – Danger to economic growth?
The Czech and Slovak economies have been in great shape for several years now and still continue to improve with companies reporting record results year after year. Today, the two are among the largest manufacturing bases for the automotive industry in Europe. Countless car parts are manufactured there and hu…
Blog-Beitrag from 27. July 2018
Compensation in the United States versus the rest of the world
Compensation in the United States is different from compensation in most countries. Just like pay scales in Sweden differ from pay scales in Italy. Within the country, there are salary differences between Mobile in Alabama, Aspen in Colorado, New York City, and San Francisco in California, but generally speak…
Beteiligung from 19. February 2019
Jobtender24
Kienbaum is an investor in the JobTender24 job posting tool. The aim of the online platform is to digitise the processes between companies and personnel consulting firms. This includes, above all, the possibility to fill open vacancies considerably faster, and often more cheaply and transparently, by means of…
Beteiligung from 13. February 2019
Capitalheads
The young personnel consultancy Capitalheads is a subsidiary of Kienbaum. Founded in 2014, the start-up focuses on the search for graduates and young professionals with up to five years of professional experience. Its clients are primarily family businesses, medium-sized companies and hidden champions.
