Conflicts with superiors, colleagues, staff members

• Official agreement on fair and respectful behaviour in the workplace
• Responsible authorities:
  
  • the immediate superior
  • Staff representative
  • Director of Human Resources
  • Head of department
  • Dean
  • Kanzler
  • Rector
  • Director of the departmental administration
  • Head of faculty administration
  • Equal Opportunity Representative (for academic staff)
  • Equal Opportunity Representative (for non-academic staff)
  • Representation for employees with disabilities

Professor Bernhard Schink
Room: M 905
Office hours: by appointment
Phone: +49 7531 88 -2140

• Our ombudsperson for research
  
  • provides advice, mediation services and support to all researchers and scientists working at the University of Konstanz,
  • advises (anonymously, if required) on questions of good scientific practice, potential violations as well as related conflicts,
  • supports individuals who have reported a potential case of academic misconduct (whistleblowers) and may therefore be subject to sanctions by other institutions,
  • is your point of contact, if you are being suspected of academic misconduct.

Renate Pfeifer
Room: V 836
Office hours: by appointment
Phone: +49 7531 88 -2366

• Human Resources offers advice on the following topics
  
  • Resolving conflicts
  • Transferring to another location, changing your workplace
  • Facilitating mediations within working groups
  • Facilitating personal coaching sessions
  • Re-integration programme after absence due to illness
  • Resolving work issues related to illness
• Qualification:
  
  • Lawyer
  • Transaction analysis expert

Email
Room: G 402
Office hours: usually from 9:00 - 15:30 or by appointment
Phone: +49 7531 88 -3556, -3939, -5274

• Responsibilities:
  
  • Ensures that all members of the unit are treated equally
  • Contact person for problems that individuals may experience in relation to the unit, their superiors or whilst working alongside their colleagues

• Legal framework:
  
  • Landespersonalvertretungsgesetz - LPVG (state staff representation act)

Jochen Trautner
Uhlandstrasse 15
78464 Konstanz, Germany
Phone: +49 7531 1200 -250

• Services (see also: Caritas advisory services flyer):
  
  • At the University of Konstanz, we collaborate with the Caritasverband Konstanz charity to offer free psycho-social counselling. As your employer, the University of Konstanz will not be notified if and when you seek advice or which issues you raise
  • You are welcome to discuss your individual situation as well as possible ways forward in up to five sessions
• Qualification:
  
  • Social worker