Miterarbeiter- und Managementführung

English translation: human resources/people management

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German term or phrase:Mitarbeiter- und Managementführung
English translation:human resources/people management
Entered by: philgoddard

00:04 Dec 11, 2013
German to English translations [PRO]
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German term or phrase: Miterarbeiter- und Managementführung
One of the main roles of the "Strategic Business Partner Corporate", who is the HR adviser to members of the board and department heads, is: Beratung des Managements zu Fragen der Mitarbeiter- und Managementführung

I understood Mitarbeiterführung to be personnel management but have always thought Managementführung was leadership, i.e. how managers lead, but in this case I wonder if they mean how the managers (executives?) themselves are "managed" (led?). Any thoughts?
Patricia Will
Australia
Local time: 23:50
human resources
Explanation:
It sounds like a fancy way of saying something very simple, perhaps because they want to avoid repeating "human resources". If there is such a repetition, you could say "people management" instead.
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philgoddard
United States
Grading comment
Client confirms people management is what they meant
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +1human resources
philgoddard
3 +2employee and management guidance
Bernhard Sulzer
3 +1personnel and operational management
Michael Martin, MA
3personnel and leadership management
Richard Burck


  

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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
personnel and leadership management


Explanation:
Mitarbeiterführung: I think you are right with "personnel management." "employee management" & "staff management" work too.

Managementführung: I think "top management" or "leadership management" are good equivalents.


    Reference: http://www.linguee.com/english-german/search?source=auto&que...
    Reference: http://www.linguee.com/english-german?query=mitarbeiterf%FCh...
Richard Burck
United States
Local time: 08:50
Works in field
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Bernhard Sulzer: it's short for Mitarbeiterführung und Managementführung - Führung as in "guidance/advising" IMO
3 hrs
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48 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
human resources


Explanation:
It sounds like a fancy way of saying something very simple, perhaps because they want to avoid repeating "human resources". If there is such a repetition, you could say "people management" instead.

philgoddard
United States
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 58
Grading comment
Client confirms people management is what they meant

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Steffen Walter: Phil, could you please correct the German part of the glossary entry: Miterarbeiter- -> Mitarbeiter- . Thank you. / I see. This error got copied from the original question headline (see above).
7 days
  -> I didn't even notice!
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
personnel and operational management


Explanation:
Managementführung is not about leadership management, e.g., managing executives or fostering general leadership skills. My sources below (and others) draw a clear distinction between leadership (strategic) and managerial (operational) aspects of running an organization: „Die Mitarbeiterführung ist strategischer und das Management betrieblicher Natur“ https://osha.europa.eu/de/topics/management-leadership


    Reference: http://www.healthy-workplaces.eu/de/leadership/leadership-gu...
    Reference: http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/01/management-is-still-not-leaders...
Michael Martin, MA
United States
Local time: 11:50
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 113

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  British Diana
5 hrs
  -> Thanks, BD!
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
employee and management guidance


Explanation:
Advising/counseling management on issues of employee and management guidance
alternative: ... on the issue(s) of employee and management leadership

literal: advising/consulting management on (issues pertaining to) leading/how to lead/guide employees/associates and management

my read





Bernhard Sulzer
United States
Local time: 11:50
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Horst Huber (X): Not sure about "guidance", but clearly direction is to be provided for both staff and management.
11 mins
  -> thanx Horst!

agree  gangels (X): guidance is fine.
12 hrs
  -> thanks a lot!
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