Senior Lecturer, Department of People Management and Organisation at
Esade
URL Contracted Doctoral Professor
Director, Department of People Management and Organisation
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
