Trend reports project up to 50% of the experienced FM workforce within the upper and middle management levels of an organization will leave the workplace within the next 10-15 years. Current leadership continues to be tested by early retirement incentives, and constricting human resource management budgets. …

In 2015 and 2016, Saxion University of Applied Sciences organized the 2nd and 3rd edition of the Regional Innovation and Entrepreneurship Conference (RIEC).The Building challenge is a new education model in which students work in mixed international teams on a real assignment, in order to use the different …

This chapter gives an overview on the Healthy Ageing research portfolio of the research group Lifelong Learning in Music (Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen, the Netherlands). Lifelong learning enables musicians to respond to the continuously changing context in which they are working nowadays, …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the characteristics of talent in relation to international business to facilitate selection and development of talent in human resources (HR) and human resource development (HRD). Design/methodology/approach – A mixed method design was used: focus groups …

This essay addresses the relationship of improvisation and identity. Biographical research that was conducted by the author into professional musicians’ lifelong learning showed the huge importance of improvisation for personal expression. Musically, the concept of sound appeared to serve as a strong …

This article provides a narrative response to a precariousness labour situation. The question it attempts to answer is: how does one cope with the precariousness and injustices of contemporary employment without becoming pessimistic or hopeless? The piece, based on the author’s personal experience, argues …

Conference report ´The Musician as Creative Entrepreneur´, Polifonia 3, The Hague (NL), 19-20/9/2014.

‘Creating the Difference’ is the theme of the 2014 edition of the Chi Sparks conference. It is also the challenge that the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community is facing today. HCI is a creative field where practitioners engage in design, production, and evaluation of interactions between people …

Jocelyn Bergland developed a preparatory training program for adolescent dancers of which critical reflection is an important part in addition to daily technical training and creative work. Through reflection, the young dancers monitor their own growth and development. Jocelyn Bergland was asked to join …

This study investigates whether creative, expressive, and reflective writing contributes to the formation of a narrative career identity that offers students in higher education a sense of meaning and direction. The contents of writing done by students who participated in 2 two-day writing courses before …