Senior Lecturer, Department of People Management and Organisation at
Esade
Contracted Doctoral Professor URL
Directora acadèmica MSc in International Management, Master of Science in International Management
Associate Dean, Master of Science Programmes in Management
Investigador, GLEAD - Leadership Development Research Centre
Biography
Before joining ESADE as an Assistant Professor in the Department of People Management
and Organisation, Daniela Noethen obtained her PhD in Business Administration Jacobs
University Bremen, Germany. Furthermore, she holds a Diploma in Psychology University
of Bonn, Germany, equivalent to bachelor plus master and spent a year studying Psychology
at the University of British Columbia Canada.Daniela Noethen believes that knowledge
management becomes increasingly important in times of imminent demographic change,
and that organisations must grasp the knowledge of large waves of retiring employees
lest huge costs be incurred. Her dissertational research dealt with knowledge transfer
in teams as one means of preventing knowledge loss. The results of her research into
predictors of knowledge transfer suggest that antecedents often differ in their influence
depending on the transfer behavior examined sharing or seeking knowledge and the level
of analysis individual or team. In another study of intergenerational knowledge transfer,
she found that there is only slightly more knowledge transfer from older to younger
employees than without such an age difference between employees, and only slightly
more knowledge transfer in age-diverse teams. This suggests that in order to protect
retiring employees' knowledge from being lost to the organisation, knowledge transfer
must be supported more heavily.Daniela Noethen's more recent research deals with management
of expatriates, a group of employees that is key for transferring knowledge in multinational
corporations MNCs. Applying the theory of knowledge management and organizational
learning to the field of expatriate management lead to important insights regarding
expatriate selection, compensation, repatriation etc. Moreover, studying the boundary
conditions established through different types of expatriate assignments or characteristics
of the expatriates themselves, she revealed important consequences for how MNCs should
best manage their expatriates.For her future research, Daniela Noethen is interested
in models for measuring knowledge transfer and knowledge loss, and means of preventing
knowledge loss other than knowledge transfer in teams. Moreover, she wants to shed
more light on the role of expatriates as knowledge agents as well as study their management
from a knowledge management point of view.
Contact details
Tel: +34 932 806 162
Ext. 2609
Fax: +34 932 048 105