13586: European Human Resource Management Programme: A Multi-Stakeholder View on Intercultural Learning

Friday, July 25, 2025

15:00 - 17:00 CEST (GMT+2)

Location: Bella Center: Hall A- A1-m3

Session Type: PDW (workshop)
Orientation: Teaching,Practice,International,Research,Diversity
Shareable link: https://cdmcd.co/vaAMRy

Organizer(s)

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Sarah Quataert

Vlerick Business School, Belgium

Presenter(s)

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Dirk Buyens

Vlerick business school & Ghent U., Belgium
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Maike Andresen

U. of Bamberg, Germany
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Iveta Ludviga

RISEBA University of Applied Sciences, Latvia
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Agita Kalvina

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Jesus Barrena-Martinez

University of Cadiz, Spain
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Eva Petiz Lousa

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Participant(s)

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Roel Schouteten

Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

As businesses increasingly operate on a global scale and workforces are becoming more diverse, employees need intercultural competencies to effectively navigate complex workplace interactions. Since global management skills are considered essential for work success, preparing the future workforce early in their education is key to ensure that graduates possess the necessary abilities, such as global mindset, cross-cultural competence, intercultural sensitivity and cultural intelligence (Bücker & Poutsma, 2010), when entering the global labour market. The European Human Resource Management (EHRM) is a concrete educational programme aimed at developing cross-cultural competencies. The programme brings together master students and faculty from leading European business schools and universities, and has two primary objectives: (1) providing students with a comprehensive understanding of human resource management practices in international organisations across Europe through both teaching and experience-based workshops, and (2) enhancing students’ intercultural competencies through collective gatherings and an HR in-company project to be worked on on-site in intercultural student teams. In this PDW, 6 partnering institutions from the EHRM consortium will share lessons learned since the programme’s start in 1997. Each presenter will offer insights into intercultural learning from 5 different stakeholder perspectives (students, teachers, universities, businesses, and governments). By sharing learnings at various levels in the learning ecosystem, we aim to provide a holistic approach to intercultural learning.