This book deals with a dialogic organizational development process carried out with managers and employees in the Research & Development Department of Bang & Olufsen, Denmark. This action research project did not start with ready-made concepts to be implemented. They were developed during the...

Regional factors are important for the economy and employment in highly competitive, international markets. As a precondition for the functioning of regional labour markets, adequate information has to be generated and transformed into new knowledge – for all actors involved. Regional Labour...

The Solution-Focused Approach developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg has been well established across many areas of society. In this book, the practical uses of solution-focused work in companies and management are shown. By means of conceptual contributions, as well as many case...

Based on insights from recent career research, the present study analyses the correlation between individual characteristics of university and polytechnics graduates and early career outcomes, and delineates the impact of higher education, as a key element within social structure. Departing from...

Recently the transfer of the “solution-focused approach” developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg into the field of management can be seen in many applications in HR-Management, leadership, team-management, marketing and sales and so on. But there are only few studies which...

Leuphana University of Lueneburg and the University of Minnesota hosted the international symposium on “Personality at Work” in Lueneburg. This symposium was co-organized by Deniz S. Ones (University of Minnesota, USA) and Juergen Deller (Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Germany). The...

This special issue of the German Journal of Human Resource Research sets out to clarify the functioning of employee participation and involvement, paying attention to the explanatory power that the concept of corporate culture has for these phenomena. The following papers concentrate on...

Die Schaffung von Transparenz ueber Stand und Entwicklung von Weiterbildungsintensitaet und -umfang, das fruehzeitige Aufzeigen von Qualifikationsbedarfen und -defiziten, die Einordnung und Evaluierung von (Foerder-) Aktivitaeten im Bereich der beruflichen Weiterbildung sind auf der regionalen...

Organisationen sind zur Erreichung ihrer Ziele im besonderen Masse darauf angewiesen, dass die Aktivitaeten der Mitarbeiter und Fuehrungskraefte so ausgerichtet sind, dass sie der Zielerreichung optimal dienen. Fuer Organisationen ist dabei besonders wichtig, dass ihre Organisationsmitglieder...

Trotz Internationalisierung und Globalisierung hat die Bedeutung der Regionen fuer die Wettbewerbsfaehigkeit von Unternehmen und Arbeitskraeften zugenommen. Um die wesentlichen Wettbewerbsfaktoren „funktionsfaehiger regionaler Arbeitsmarkt“ und „effektive regionale Arbeitsmarktpolitik“...