TY  - CHAP
A1  - Huber, Frédéric
A1  - Bleck, Wolfgang
A1  - Scheik, Sven
A1  - Schleser, Markus
A1  - Reisgen, Uwe
T1  - Investigation of galvanneal coating adherence in adhesive bonded joints using lap shear test
T2  - Galvatech 2011 : 8th International Conference on Zinc and Zinc Alloy Coated Steel Sheet, June 21 - 24, 2011, Genova (Italy) ; proceedings
Y1  - 2011
SN  - 978-88-85298-82-8
SP  - Paper No. 43
PB  - Associazione Italiana di Metallurgia
CY  - Mailand
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Steuer-Dankert, Linda
A1  - Sharma, Mamta Rameshwarlal
A1  - Bleck, Wolfgang
A1  - Leicht-Scholten, Carmen
ED  - Farn, C. K.
T1  - Innovation through Diversity - Development of a Diversity and Innovation management concept
T2  - International Conference on Innovation and Management : IAM23017S : Date: July 4-7, 2017, Osaka, Japan
N2  - Acknowledging that a diverse workforce could be a potential source of innovation, the current research deals with the fine details of why diversity management is central to achieving innovation in heterogeneous research groups and how this could be effectively realized in an organization. The types of heterogeneities addressed mainly include gender, qualification, academic discipline and intercultural perspectives. The type of organization being dealt with in this work is a complex association of research institutes at a technical university in Germany (RWTH Aachen University), namely a 'Cluster of Excellence', whereby several institutes of the university work collaboratively in different sub-projects. The 'Cluster of Excellence' is a part of the 'Excellence Initiative' of the German federal and state governments German Research Foundation (DFG) and German Council of Science and Humanities, with the ultimate aim of promoting cutting-edge research. To support interdisciplinary collaboration and thus the performance of the cluster, the development of a diversity and innovation management concept is presently in the conceptual phase and will be described in the frame of this paper. The 3-S-Diversity Model, composed of the three elements: skills, structure and strategy, serves as a basis for the development of the concept. The proposed concept consists of six phases; the first two phases lay the ground work by developing an understanding of the status quo on the forms of diversity in the Cluster of Excellence, the type of organizational structure of the member institutes and the varieties of specialist work cultures of the same. The third and the fourth phases build up on this foundation by means of qualitative and quantitative studies. While the third phase deals with the sensitization of the management level to the close connection between diversity and innovation; the need to manage them thereafter and find tailor-made methods of doing so, the fourth phase shall mainly focus on the mindset of the employees in this regard. The fifth phase shall consolidate the learnings and the ideas developed in the course of the first four phases into an implementable strategy. The ultimate phase shall be the implementation of this concept in the Cluster. The first three phases have been accomplished successfully and the preliminary results are already available.
Y1  - 2017
SN  - 2218-6387
SP  - Panel C
PB  - Kuang Hui Chiu
CY  - Osaka
ER  -