This paper presents the results of a business – university collaborative research project on defining lower management competencies in the year 2025. The purpose of the research was to help a large local airport to define and understand what competencies lower management will need in order to function …

De zogenoemde “21th century skills” worden, aldus het Ministerie van Onderwijs, steeds belangrijker. Het zijn eigenschappen die we terugvinden in de eindtermen van vrijwel alle hbo-opleidingen en die – in de woorden van Donald Schön – de kern zijn van een “reflective practitioner” : een vakvrouw of –man, …

This paper addresses demographic change in the European Union, marked by an ageing population, rising retirement ages, and labor shortages due to baby‑boomer retirements and fewer younger workers. These developments increase the average age of workers and challenge knowledge‑intensive organizations that …

Interview Donald Ropes in Advisie (oktober 2013) Het verhaal is bekend: Nederland heeft te maken met vergrijzing, oudere werknemers gaan in de komende jaren met pensioen. Daarom zijn bedrijven op zoek naar jong personeel met frisse ideeën. Maar krijgen die jeugdige medewerkers wel de kans die frisse …

The workforce in the EU is ageing, and this requires investment in older workers so that the organisations in which they work remain competitive and viable. One such investment takes the form of organising and facilitating intergenerational learning: learning between and among generations that can lead …

The purpose of this paper is to lay the groundwork for a large-scale prescriptive research project on organizing intergenerational communities of practice as a way to help organizations deal with some of the problems an ageing worker population brings with it. After a definition of the problem, a review …

Hoofdstuk 38 uit boek: Er is veel geschreven over leren, maar goede en toegankelijke overzichtswerken zijn er nauwelijks. Een basiswerk over leren in en om organisaties ontbrak al helemaal. Tot nu toe, want die constatering bracht Manon Ruijters en Robert-Jan Simons ertoe een basisboek te maken met 50 …

As technology and the Internet rapidly change the way that people interact, the business world continually readjusts to keep up. The field of marketing is no exception. Not only have the information superhighway, social networks, and brand new marketplaces revolutionized business as usual for the marketing …

With the average age of the working population increasing, Europeans now have to work longer. How can these extended careers become more successful and satisfying? And how can lifelong guidance and counselling specifically support older workers? 

The strengths of design-based research (DBR from now on) is that it teststheories in the real word of practice and in doing so generates newknowledge and artifacts useful to both the scientist and the practitioner.However, DBR’s strength might also be considered its weakness; becausethe research takes …