How do empathy and socioperception affect organisations in the Western world? Action research involving in depth interviews with 50 change agents operating in a dozen European companies showed that these men and women have highly developed socioperception skills. They pick up and interpret the weak signals …

De kwaliteit van het hbo moet omhoog. Daarvoor is een kwaliteitscultuur nodig die ruimte geeft aan vakmanschap en het innerlijk streven naar kwaliteit door hbo-docenten. Dit artikel gaat in op de manier waarop die kwaliteitscultuur gestimuleerd kan worden, met een aanpak die top-down kaderstelling en …

Corporate Social Responsibility is an emerging term often used in the globalizing world. The concept CSR has many definitions. The general idea is that companies involved in CSR improve their activities on economic, social and environmental level. This theory is called the Triple Bottom Line. Thus, a …

Contemporary economical problems require new innovative solutions. The potential role of higher education (HE) as a change agent for regional sustainable development is investigated. Stakeholders from firms, education and government within an R&D Campus form Innovation Teams and Communities of Practices …

The European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) wants to maintain a key player in the field of Higher Engineering Education. The central question of this report is therefore: What options should SEFI take into account to prepare the organization for the future and to remain an important player …

Duurzaamheid wordt breed erkend als belangrijke factor in de economie. Veel bedrijven, met name uit het MKB, zijn er in de praktijk maar heel beperkt mee bezig. Duurzaam ondernemen beperkt zich tot relatief marginale activiteiten zoals energiebesparing, wat extra milieumaatregelen, iets leuks voor de …

Let us assume that organizations want to blossom in order to achieve their goals in the best possible manner. Why, then, does this fail to occur so often, despite major efforts in HRM such as education, development of competencies, and management training? This article deals with learning obstacles in …

Frank Jan de Graaf argues that the domination of neoclassical economic thinking in academia has contributed to the economic crisis and hindered thinking about sustainable development. Currently, ethics is re-entering the debate about how to develop prosperous open societies. A group of NGOs recently …

Artikel over de theorie van De logica van het gevoel en afstemmen van de interventie aanpak op de situatie in een organisatie.

The Fociss (Focussing Innovation for a Sustainable Strategy) approach is a structured method to define core business related issues within sustainable development that require main attention in a specific company. In theory, Fociss has the ability for all kinds of innovations, but the implementation …