Wolfgang Baars

Contact:baars@arbeitundzukunft.de

Field of activity:

• Making contacts and organising empirical field studies in the area of small and middle enterprises doing business in the areas of crafts, industrial service and environmental protection
• Organising and completion of forums of labour research
• Participating in and developing instruments for fast analysis of collective situations of persons and enterprises with hints to requirements of design especially in SME

Short biographie:

• Born 1941
• 9 years education in the merchant fleet in small, middle and big travel; 1970 degree as a captain in big travel at FH Hamburg
• Worldwide deployment as III., II. and I. officer at ships for packaged goods and reefers
• Additional studies in sea geology in Kiel and journeys on research ships and fishery guard ship
• 1973 – 1991 Institutional work in the area of national and international industrial relations in the branchs navy, logistics and waste management; negotiaton of minimum standard in UNO, ILO, IMO and EU;
• 1992 – 1996 Staff manager in holding for industrial service providing; at the same time in matrix-organisation operatively responsible for 360 employees in the area of water high pressure engineering (www.haniel.de)
• 1993-1999 Chief executive/member of the management of two country wide trade associations with/without tariff connection for the industrial service range (www.uvgruppe.de)
• since 1996 since 1996 Independent work as advisor for industrial relations
• Member of International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA), Geneva (www.fu-berlin.de/iira2003/)
• Coach at a private business university (www.eps.de)
• since 1998 Additionally acting partner of the ACC Consulting and service team GmbH, Sitz Stuttgart (www.acc-team.de); Introduction of coworker financial participation and consultative management
• since 01-09/2002 Advisor to the executive committee of the VDRK during first introduction of a career profile for the pipe -, channel and industrial service after 9 years preparation (www.vdrk.de)
• since 10/2002 Concentration on consultation of companies and associations in the field of industrial service and environmental protection

Stand: 18.09.2002