Associate Professor of the Department of Human Resource Management
URL Associate Professor
Academic training
Doctor en Psicología. Universitat de Barcelona
Licenciado en Filosofía y Letras - Sección Psicología. Universitat de Barcelona
Interest Areas
Leadership
Corporate culture
Value of management-based intellectual capital
Managing diversity: coaching and mentoring
Management by values and learning organizations
Biography
Has been linked to three organizations: Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona, PriceWaterhouse (PW) and ESADE.
Corporate Training Director of "la Caixa", Corporate Development Manager for Consultants in PW and an Associate Professor of ESADE since 1992. He has likewise been Director of Executive Education at ESADE and Director of the ESADE-Cranfield research project 'Human Resource Management Trends'.
He is the author of two case studies: "Exploring the Learning Organizations Model in Multinational Companies. Preliminary Results according to the Perceptions of Spanish Managers" and "Merger Analysis: HP + Compaq = HP Invent. The Role of Carly Fiorina".
He is a Visiting Professor at the Universidad Centroamericana of San Salvador and Managua, of the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey and of Berkeley (The Haas Business School).
Selected publications
Álvarez de Lara, J.M. & Soler, C. (2006). Capital Intelectual y Creación de Valor.Expansión
Aparicio-Valverde, M.; G. Ryan & Soler, C. (2006). Distributing H.R.M. responsibilities; a classification of organizations. Personnel Review6, 618-636.
Gore E; Vogel E; Soler, C. & Cárdenas JA (2006). Dificultades para formar la empresa del conocimiento. In Eduardo Soto y Alfons Sauquet (Ed.). Gestión y Conocimiento en organizaciones que aprenden (pp. 53-85). México: Thomson Internacional.[ISBN: 970-686-623-X]
Gore E; Vogel E; Soler, C. & Cárdenas JA (2006). El capital intelectual y la creación de valor. In Eduardo Soto y Alfons Sauquet (Ed.). Gestión y conocimiento en organizaciones que aprenden (pp. 87-96). México: Thomson Internacional.[ISBN: 970-686-623-X]
Soler, C. (2006). UN CAMBIO TRANSFORMADOR: LA GESTIÓN DE PERSONAS EN LAS EMPRESAS. In AEDIPE (Ed.). Álvarez de Mon, S.; Castellanos, F.; Cuevas, J.Mª.; Fajardo, P.; Fontela, E.; Maraver, O; Marina, J.M; Pimentel, M. (pp. 247-290). Madrid, España: PEARSON PRENTICE HALL.[ISBN: 84-2O5-5004-3]
Soler, C. (2002). Analisis de la fusión H.P. + COMPAQ. Resultado H.P. Invent.
Duran Farell P & Soler, C. (1997). Prólogo. La Dirección por Valores (pp. 9-15). Barcelona, ESPANYA: Editorial McGraw-Hill.