Mobility and career development of professionals and managers

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Mobility and career development of professionals
and managers

• Seminar
• Brussels, 4 5 October 2007

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Background

• In this project we want to treat another
  difficult subject convincing P MS of the
  advantages of working in another country. The
  decision to work in another country depends on a
  number of conditions, and many of those are
  related to the career development, the motivation
  and the psychological motivation of the
  individual professional or manager as well as the
  company culture. Will mobility further ones
  career? Will it have positive impacts? These are
  crucial questions for any individual.

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Whats different about this project?

• It goes beyond mobilnet additional topics and
  partners
• UNIZO as partners
• Three topics in connection with career
  development job mobility, cross-border mobility
  and international mobility

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Background

• We want to study and discuss these questions,
  which will help professional and managerial staff
  and their trade unions to make better decisions.
  We also want to look at the attitudes and
  problems of small and medium sized enterprises
  together with the partner UNIZO, the Flemish
  representative of SMEs which has the EuresChannel
  Coordination. We want to achieve that by a.
  researching the impact of mobility on the careers
  of P MS in different regions of Europe b. to
  concentrate one case study on the region Flanders
  / France / Netherlands / England, c. discussing
  the impact of mobility on the career development
  of professionals and managers as well as the case
  study at a trans-national seminar and c.
  publishing the results in three languages.

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Objectives

• To compare and discuss the impact of mobility on
  the career development of professionals and
  managers
• To research the impact, especially the drivers
  and barriers from the viewpoint of professional
  and managerial staff in companies, of mobility on
  the career development of professionals and
  managers
• To discuss
• motivational factors added value for mobility
  with a career perspective
• fears concerning mobility and its impact on
  career development
• HR perspectives
• mobility barriers based on psychology, personal
  attitudes and company culture
• whether there are cultural differences when it
  comes to mobility and its impact on careers
• mobility at different stages of a managers
  career
• the attitudes of SMEs to the mobility of
  professionals and managers

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Objectives

• To develop recommendations for professionals and
  managers, their trade unions as well as SMEs
  concerning mobility
• To develop a case study in the Flanders / France
  region to learn more about attitudes of P MS
  but also employers in small and medium sized
  enterprises in other European regions, sometimes
  faced with serious bottlenecks on the labour
  market for high skilled professional jobs.
• To compare the results with other European
  regions at the seminar

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Schedule

• Start of project 15 December 2006
• Preparatory phase 15 December 2006 30 January
  2007
• Preparatory meeting 15 January 2007
• Research 1 February 30 September 2007
• Preparation of seminar 1 February - 30 September
  2007
• Seminar The impact of mobility on the career
  development of P MS 1 - 2 October 06
• Wrap-up and dissemination 3 October 15
  December 2007 (to be extended to 15 March 08)

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Results

• Research on the impact of mobility on the career
  development of P MS, with a special emphasis on
  the drivers and barriers from the viewpoint of
  professional and managerial staff in companies.
• A case study focusing on the attitudes of P MS
  and SMEs in the Flanders / France / England /
  Netherlands region
• Seminar on the research results and the case
  study, which will provide a comparison of
  different European experiences, and a discussion
  of possible solutions participants experiences
  and relevant case studies to further analyse the
  questions
• A report comprising the research, case study and
  seminar results, which will be published in
  English, French and Dutch

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Research

• During 2006, the European year of workers
  mobility, the Dublin Foundation has commissioned
  a research team to analyse the special
  Eurobarometer on Mobility. This research will
  result in one descriptive report on mobility in
  Europe, and five analytical research papers on
  the drivers and barriers to mobility and the
  economic and social effects of mobility in
  Europe. EUROCADRES will ask a researcher or an
  institute to revise the main finding of this
  research from the viewpoint of professional and
  managerial staff in companies. The mobility
  research revision will also imply the
  (re)calculation of the main indicators for this
  specific occupational category. This will assure
  a decent empirical introductory contribution on
  the closing seminar on the impact of mobility on
  the career development of PMS.
• A 2nd part will look at a specific region, namely
  the France / Flanders region, where also the
  Netherlands and England have an influence, and
  analyse the attitudes, drivers and barriers of
  both employers and P MS. This will be compared
  to the findings of the first part of the study as
  well as to other European experiences.

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Seminar

• 2-day seminar with the following possible topics
  motivational factors for mobility with a career
  perspective, fears concerning mobility and its
  impact on career development, HR perspectives,
  advantages disadvantages, mobility barriers
  based on psychology, personal attitudes company
  culture, are there cultural differences when it
  comes to mobility and its impact on careers,
  mobility at different stages of a managers
  career presentation of the case study and
  comparison with other regions in Europe
  presentation of research results, addition of
  participants experiences

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Programme for today morning

• 9.00 Welcome introduction to the project
• 9.30 Introduction of participants
• 10.00 Keynote speaker Lambert Kleinmann, DG
  Employment, EURES
• 10.30 Coffee break
• Topic - Job mobility
• 10.45 Job mobility - impact on career, long life
  learning, education, etc. (Tom Vandenbrande,
  HIVA)
• 11.15 Job mobility, career and wages for younger
  professionals in Denmark (Rasmus
  Conradsen, AC)
• 11.30 Working groups (Discussion of
  presentations)
• 12.15 Presentation of results of working groups
• 12.30 Lunch

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Programme for today - afternoon

• 14.00 Presentation of the case study Personnel
  management with regard to cross-border
  workers in SMEs (Southwest Flanders) (Tom
  Vandenbrande Laura Coppin, HIVA)
• 14.30 Questions and answers
• 14.45 Panel discussion reactions to research
  and experiences from other cross-border regions
  concerning career development, Marjaterttu
  Koivula (AKAVA, Finland) The Finnish situation
• 15.45 Coffee break
• 16.00 Plenary discussion with researchers and
  panel
• 16.45 Summary of the day
• 17.00 approx. end of day 1
• 19.00 Dinner

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Programme for tomorrow

• Topic International mobility
• 9.00 Mobility and career development of
  professionals and managers (Quantitative
  results on mobility and career possibilities)
  (Tom Vandenbrande Laura Coppin,HIVA)
• 9.30 Questions and answers
• 9.45 Plenary discussion
• 10.45 Coffee break
• 11.00 Working groups how to work with the
  results of the seminar
• 12.00 Presentation of working groups
• 12.30 Plenary discussion of strategy next steps
• 13.30 Action plan and summary of seminar
• 14.00 approx end of seminar