Auswirkungen des demografischen Wandels auf die Innovationsfähigkeit von KMU: Handlungsfelder für das Personalmanagement

Birgit Verworn

No 1, Working Paper Series from Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU Cottbus), Chair of Organization, Human Resource & General Management

Abstract: As a consequence of the demographic change, the workforce is aging and shrinking at the same time. Based on the resource-based view of the firm, we discuss implications for innovation and human resource management in SMEs. A review of the literature and empirical studies show that a shortage of engineers is becoming on obstacle to innovation in German SMEs and therefore a challenge for human resource management. We present three strategies to counter the possible shortage of skilled engineers.

Keywords: workforce; aging; shrinking; innovation management; HRM; resource-based view (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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