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March 1, 2019

By Antwerp Management School

Start to Lead: taking time to discover your leadership DNA

Human Resources

“Spot on”, according to Elena Secuianu, 29 and HR Manager at the Mediterranean Shipping Company Belgium. She started working there two years ago and has recently been promoted to team leader. She was on the lookout for a training program to finetune her leadership skills when Antwerp

Expertise Report

January 7, 2019

By Karen Wouters

Leadership Lab: Strengthening teams for shared leadership: shifting from me to meaning

Human Resources

Our last leadership lab of 2018 was hosted by Fluvius who has taken its recent merger (between Eandis en Infrax) as an opportunity to introduce a new way of working centered around shared leadership and teamwork. A huge undertaking for an organization with more than 5000 employees who

Expertise Interview

March 8, 2018

By Antwerp Management School

War for Talent 2.0: Are we fighting for the best robot, or the best manager?

Human Resources

Most managers wouldn’t spontaneously call themselves ‘middle management’, if only to avoid being associated with the ‘middle’ or the ‘mean’, and the reputation of being unnecessary middle men. And yet, a lot of managers find themselves in this role. Research often shows they’re the ones

Expertise Report

February 12, 2018

By Karen Wouters

Do you know your "switching cost" as a leader?

Human Resources

We’ve gotten rid of our tails, but not our emotions. With that statement Dr. Steven Poelmans, professor at Antwerp Management School and EADA Business School, started the Leadership Lab “inside a leader’s brain”. How come emotions have survived all these years? The limbic system takes

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February 5, 2018

By Peggy De Prins

Social dialogue - part 2: up there

Human Resources

At the end of 2018, a new book by AMS professor Peggy De Prins‘Social Dialogue: opportunity or agony?’ (‘Sociale dialoog: kans of kwelling?’) will be published by ACCO. Leading up to this publication, Peggy uses everyday experiences to reflect on the content of her book.

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January 17, 2018

By Peggy De Prins

Social dialogue - part 1: the terrible divorce

Human Resources

At the end of 2018, a new book by AMS professor Peggy De Prins ‘Social Dialogue: opportunity or agony?’ (‘Sociale dialoog: kans of kwelling?’) will be published by ACCO. Leading up to this publication, Peggy uses everyday experiences to reflect on the content of her book.

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December 15, 2017

By Peggy De Prins

Investing in ‘workable work’ for executives pays off, even in spades

Human Resources

Starting January, Peggy will introduce a new blog series based on her contributions to 'In the mood for another social dialogue'. In this series, she will translate theory to the concrete and tangible practice. Prior to this, Peggy discusses the importance of workable work for managers in

Expertise Report

December 12, 2017

By Karen Wouters

Why self-leadership without context doesn't work

Human Resources

“As HR and organizational development professionals, what brings you to a lab about self-leadership?” Jesse Segers and Anne Lemaire asked the attendees at our leadership lab. “It’s been on my agenda for a while,” one of the participants said. “There are big changes coming our way, the

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December 6, 2017

By Antwerp Management School

How to make a difference as a HR Manager

Human Resources

Last spring at HRM Night, Kristian Vandenhoudt’s HR colleagues awarded him with the title ‘HR Manager of the Year’. According to Kristian, who is Vice President Human Resources of the ‘Compressor Technique Service Division’ at Atlas Copco, this award is mainly a recognition of his

Expertise Research

November 29, 2017

By Ans De Vos

Deploying talent flexibly: opportunities and success factors of co-sourcing

Human Resources

We all must, and we all shall, be employed for a longer period of time. Thereby, the question arises what is necessary to ensure that this is not a case of “having to” but of “wanting to” for employees. Organizations are faced with the challenge of creating ‘workable work’ for employees

Expertise Research

October 6, 2017

By Antwerp Management School

Make the right study choice and boost your career opportunities

Human Resources

Choosing what to study is never easy. It’s a big decision and, with your future in mind, you need to take the current labor market situation into account. Right now, about 104,000 Flemish students are studying subjects that are unlikely to lead to jobs. You make your very first study

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October 2, 2017

By Koen Marichal

Leadership with a small ‘l’

Human Resources

A few weeks ago, Doctors for Doctors organized an evening devoted to the film Burning Out by the Belgian Jérôme Le Maire. The award-winning documentary shows the lives and the silent suffering of surgeons, anesthetists, nurses and other personnel in the operating theatres of Paris’s