Hasle, Peter

Jensen, Per Langaa

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    Aalborg UniversitetPostgraduate training – a possibility for collaboration between research and practiceHasle, Peter; Jensen, Per LangaaPublished in:First Euroma Workshop on Practice-Oriented Research in Operations ManagementPublication date:2013Document VersionEarly version, also known as pre-printLink to publication from Aalborg UniversityCitation for published version (APA):Hasle, P., & Jensen, P. L. (2013). Postgraduate training – a possibility for collaboration between research andpractice. In First Euroma Workshop on Practice-Oriented Research in Operations Management: 14-15 October2013, IESE Barcelona North Campus, Spain IESE Business School, University of Navarra.General rightsCopyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright ownersand it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.            ? Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.            ? You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain            ? You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ?Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us at vbn@aub.aau.dk providing details, and we will remove access tothe work immediately and investigate your claim.Downloaded from vbn.aau.dk on: August 23, 2021Abstract for First Euroma Workshop on Practice-Oriented Research in Operations Management 14-15 October 2013, IESE Barcelona North Campus, Spain  Postgraduate training – a possibility for collaboration between research and practice   Peter Hasle, Professor Center for Industrial Production, Department of Business and Management, Aalborg University hasle@business.aau.dk  Per Langaa Jensen, Professor Department of Management Engineering, Technical University of Denmark plaj@dtu.dk   Postgraduate university education of managers employed in industry offers a unique possibility of developing collaboration between researchers and practice. However, it depends on the content and organisation of the education. Traditional teaching based on lecturing and reading may provide im-portant knowledge for the student but will not be a strong facilitator of valuable collaboration be-tween research and practice. In Denmark postgraduate training of managers already in employment has expanded tremendously during the last decade. Most of this training consists of a combination of theory taught in traditional manners and an assignment of a case study, typically carried out in the student’s workplace. The students are supervised by experienced researchers, and they get thereby access to feed back on their workplace practice, and the researchers get access to a wide array of workplace practices.   One example of such education is the postgraduate master programme in environmental and occu-pational health and safety (OHS) management at the Technical University of Denmark. It is a two year programme, estimated to half time (60 etcs). Most students make agreements with their em-ployer about using partly free time and partly working time for the study. Target group is environ-mental/OHS/QES managers or officers with a bachelor or perhaps a master degree in another fields. In each semester the students have to make a case study in groups of normally 4-5 persons where one of students is hosting the case study. It is aimed at a priority problem in the workplace identi-fied by the host. A researcher from the university supervises the group and normally visits the workplace. Thereby the students work with integration of the theory introduced at lectures and the workplace practice. The whole last semester is used for a dissertation which is again aimed at a real life problems at the students’ workplaces. The dissertation is prepared by most often pairs of stu-dents. Especially the dissertation gives the university researcher a good insight in workplace prac-tice which can be used for later research activities. Most often the work of the student is also used in practical changes at the workplaces. One recent example was a study of organisational social capital in a large Danish manufacturer of medical equipment. The study took place a site which was chang-ing into a primarily ramp up production, and where the OHS manager proved that lack of collabora-tion between blue collar workers, first line managers and technical departments both created a bar-rier for improving production processes and impaired employees’ well-being. Thereby the host company also gets important insights into problems in the present organisation and management of production.  

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