INKOVEMA Podcast „Well through time“

#113 – Systematic conflict management as a legal requirement of risk management

On the legal requirements of corporate risk management and the need for systematic conflict management

In conversation with Prof Dr Thomas Knobloch and Dr Jörg Schneider-Brodtmann

Well through time. The podcast about mediation, conflict coaching and organisational consulting.

  • Prof Dr Thomas KnoblochAs a tax consultant and business mediator certified by the German Federal Chamber of Tax Consultants, he represents the fields of risk and conflict management in teaching and research at the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences - in addition to accounting law. After studying business administration and working as a manager in the Mannesmann Group, he previously worked for several years as a university lecturer in accounting/controlling at the University of Paderborn in Meschede.
  • Dr Jörg Schneider-Brodtmannmediator and lawyer at Menold Bezler in Stuttgart. WirtschaftsWoche 34/2019 described the negotiation expert as one of the most renowned lawyers for IT law (co-author of the IT law commentary published by Dr Otto Schmidt KG), who has been advocating the benefits of mediation for years, even in conflict-prone, complex contractual relationships.

"STRATEGY IS THE PATH TO THE GOAL."

Contents of the conversation:

(TRANSCRIPT of the conversation follows!)

  • How do you get from accounting to conflict management?
  • Concept of risk: understanding and recognising risk
  • Conflict-dependent and non-conflict-dependent risks of a company
  • Legal requirements in stock corporation law and now also in the StaRUG to systematically record risks, including the recording of potential conflicts.
  • Integration of conflict management into risk management
  • ConflictMap and RiskMap

Noteworthy relationships in organisations

Risk management and conflict management means first of all taking a look at the relationship landscape.

  • B2B = Business to Business = Business relationships
  • B2C = Business to Customer = Customer relationships
  • B2A = Business to Authority = Relationships with public authorities (municipality, authorities, etc.)
  • B2P = Business to Public = Relations with the public (press, neighbourhoods, etc.)
  • B2X = Business to External = Relationships with other stakeholders_

"THERE IS A LEGAL MANDATE – NOT ONLY IN THE GERMAN STOCK CORPORATION ACT, BUT NOW ALSO IN THE STARUG - TO PURSUE SYSTEMATIC CONFLICT MANAGEMENT AS AN ASPECT OF RISK MANAGEMENT."

"I COME FROM THE WORLD OF ZDF: NUMBERS, DATA, FACTS."

"IN A RISK LANDSCAPE, THE RISKS ARE OF CONFLICTS FOR THE COMPANY."

"A CONFLICT LANDSCAPE HAS ASPECTS OF A RISK LANDSCAPE."

Left:

  • THOMAS KNOBLOCH: Integration of conflict and Risk management (CMRM model). A business challenge for companies, in: Konfliktdynamik 2012, 224-232.