Organizational change is characterized by different measures of business policy, work organization and personnel policy, e.g. delayering, teamwork, job-rotation, further training and education, incentive payment and flexible working time. These measures work both, alone and in combination, on...

The economic potential of ethnic and cultural diversity is often underestimated. This paper summarizes a number of recent studies which show that 'soft' factors such as attitudes, perceptions and identities - and in particular ethnic identities - significantly affect economic outcomes. More...

The article tries to answer the question empirically, whether and under which conditions the key competencies 'acting autonomously' and 'interacting in socially heterogeneous groups' as well as some forms of motivation and forms of the self concept can be improved by university courses, which...

The aim of this paper is to measure the returns to human capital. We use a unique data set consisting of matched employer-employee information. Data on individuals' human capital include a set of 26 tasks that capture the utilization of workers' skills in a very detailed way. Thus, we can expand...

Kooperation ist ein unverzichtbarer Leistungsbestandteil. Nur durch kooperatives Verhalten gelingt die Abstimmung der Arbeitstätigkeiten, ohne Kooperation gibt es keinen Informationsaustausch, keine Unterstützung und keine Hilfe, sondern allenfalls eine Menge unfruchtbarer Konflikte....

In den letzten Jahren ist in Forschung und Praxis ein zunehmendes Interesse an unternehmerisch orientierten MitarbeiterInnen, sogenannten IntrapreneurInnen, zu beobachten. Der vorliegende Artikel beschreibt ein Modell für Intrapreneurship in der beruflichen Erstausbildung (Lehre), das empirisch...

Aufgrund der derzeit breiten Einführung von Bachelor- und Masterstudiengängen sowie des zunehmenden Drucks vom Arbeitsmarkt sollte die Einführung von Angeboten zum Erwerb von Schlüsselkompetenzen möglichst schnell und flächendeckend erfolgen, wobei ein hoher Qualitätsstandard der Angebote...

In this paper, I analyse how the survival of new firms is affected by the average ability level in the founding team, the team size, team members' homogeneity with respect to ability, and team members' heterogeneity with respect to education. As a theoretical basis, I apply the O-ring theory...

This article considers cognitive distance and combined competence as predictors of concrete outcomes in co-operative Research and Development projects. The operationalisation is based upon a dedicated survey, answered by matched pairs of projects managers in partnering organisations, addressing...