Wilhelm Haller

Wilhelm " Willi" Haller ( born July 25, 1935 † 2 August 2004) was a Swabian entrepreneur, social entrepreneur, father of flexitime and founder of InterFlex data systems.

Life

Even as an apprentice with the company Hengstler, a manufacturer of electro- mechanical meters, he realized that rigid concepts in business developments can not cope in the world of work. In 1964 he went with his family to New York, where he Hengstler branch HECON Corporation built together with Paul Buser and including the KeyCounter invented, in 1966 the U.S. patent was awarded. The late 1960s, Haller returned to Germany and began intensively with the flexibility of working time to deal, developed concepts for the flexitime, the variable working hours and annual working time. On the basis of industrial meters Haller developed the first time recording devices without that would not be a successful implementation of flexible working hours possible. This instrument allowed for the first time to grasp the actual hours worked by employees and not just start and end of working time - in the late 1960s, a revolution. To introduce a wider public to its flexible working time concepts and make them popular, Haller created the Swabian English slogan " Ai laik flextime ," which caused a lot of conversation and numerous as stickers cars graced. His ideas and concepts made ​​him the "Father of flexitime " and meant that was discussed nationwide on more flexible working hours and she was able to win by one. Not only in Germany but worldwide, his counsel was asked as flextime expert.

In the course of this development, Willi Haller set out to design the world's first computer system from which a little later was the first PC-based time and attendance system for medium -sized businesses. In the basic functions of the system conforms to the standard today for any time management systems. Many more products and patents belong to Haller's inventions.

In order to realize its goals better and faster and to allow the employee to participate in the success, Haller founded in 1974 with three like-minded company InterFlex data systems that continuously ( later acquired by Ingersoll Rand ) developed to become the European leader. Haller built the company on the basis of progressive management concepts. Employee motivation has played a central role. The idea was that one-third of the profits should be distributed under each of the investors, employees and aid projects. A rarity for that time was also the active involvement of employees in decision-making processes. Willi Haller never saw himself as a boss, but as part of a team that was for all the recognized and competent manager anyway. He was able to present his ideas to understand and communicate, inspire employees and gain for a common goal and open up potential performance. Was very important for Haller that the work was fun. His concepts were seen around the world. Flexible working hours have changed the world of work seriously. Millions of workers will benefit from this every day.

In the early 1980s Willi Haller retired from his business, worked as a consultant and coach for corporations, unions, institutions and social organizations. He founded several social projects, including the " house of life " and the " noodle house ". He was guest speaker at universities and management seminars and appeared on TV shows. Although Willi Haller was a radical thinker, he also had influence on leading manager because he was not only charismatic, but could argue pragmatic and logical. He is the author of several books and numerous articles on management, business, and theological issues. He saw himself as a pupil of the philosopher Martin Buber, whose influence " The Dark Fire" is clearly in Haller's book.

Find Haller's ideas after his death continues to appeal, including through the work of the International Leadership and Business Society eV, which has also been the humanization of the working world as a goal.

Works

  • The Human Job Article in Mondcivitan Bridge 1973
  • We work times? Flexible working as a business opportunity, Willi Haller, Hermann Neher, Gabler Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1986. ISBN 3-409-19101-1
  • The beneficial alternative: Jesuanic ethics in business and politics, Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal, first edition 1989 ISBN 3-87294-385-5.
  • Flexible working: benefits and opportunities for the company and its employees, Heyne Verlag, Munich, 1990, ISBN 3-453-03720-0.
  • Without power and mandate: the messianic way in economic and social affairs, Peter Hammer Verlag, Wuppertal, 1992, ISBN 3-87294-475-4.
  • Flexible working hours in residential care services, nursing union, Radolfzell, first edition 1993. ISBN 3-00-001150-1
  • The dark fire: God's destructive and loving force in man, Oberursel, 1994, ISBN 3-88095-071-7.
  • The interest whip, St. Georgen: Angela Hackbarth Verlag, undated, 1994
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