Personnel & Labour

Have you ever wondered why universities still educate tomorrow's managers with yesterday's tools? Our contemporary higher education landscape is facing rapid technological advancements and the promises of web 2.0 to foster a new mode of knowledge production and collaborative learning among students around the world. We are always online, continuously updating and connecting to electronic information nodes in the globalised digital village of the web.

Are career opportunities influenced by the place where you live? Does it help your career if you accept a job at a longer distance? What is the best place to live if you want to combine maximum career opportunities with a minimum of commuting and migration costs?

Do innovative team leaders play? Do innovative teams play with budgets and rules? Should a successful innovative team allow conflicts? Do the literature on small work groups and on teams present a different truth? Is leading an innovative team a paradox?