Brief descrip­ti­on

Do you know this one? Whe­ther online order forms in purcha­sing, mobi­le devices in sales or digi­tal con­trol of machi­nes — some employees thri­ve on the use of digi­tal tech­no­lo­gy in the work­place, while others want to stick to the old ways.

This is of cour­se not only a ques­ti­on of "young" and "old", but one should not for­get: In Rhi­ne­land-Pala­ti­na­te com­pa­nies today, employees from up to four gene­ra­ti­ons work tog­e­ther — with dif­fe­rent skills and needs when using digi­tal tech­no­lo­gies in the work­place. To suc­cessful­ly bring them tog­e­ther was the aim of the pro­ject "Age-mixed digi­ti­sa­ti­on teams".

By set­ting up digi­ti­sa­ti­on teams in com­pa­nies in Rhi­ne­land-Pala­ti­na­te, pos­si­ble reser­va­tions against "the new" were to be redu­ced and the com­pe­tence of expe­ri­en­ced employees was to be spe­ci­fi­cal­ly included in the design of tech­no­lo­gy.

How did we pro­ceed?

In our "Peo­p­le and Tech­no­lo­gy" matu­ri­ty ana­ly­sis, we took the sta­te of the art of the com­pa­nies and, tog­e­ther with the com­pa­nies, deri­ved recom­men­da­ti­ons for action in the fields of tech­no­lo­gy design, age-appro­pria­te manage­ment and chan­ge cul­tu­re.

Sub­se­quent­ly, we imple­men­ted demand-ori­en­ted trai­ning using digi­tal tech­no­lo­gies in the com­pa­nies and sup­port­ed them in set­ting up digi­ti­sa­ti­on teams.

What was the bene­fit for the com­pa­nies?

  1. You recei­ved an over­view of your company's cur­rent level of matu­ri­ty in the fields of tech­no­lo­gy design, age-appro­pria­te manage­ment and chan­ge cul­tu­re.
  2. The com­pa­nies bene­fi­ted from "aha effects" for youn­ger and older employees in pro­fes­sio­nal­ly mode­ra­ted digi­tiza­ti­on teams.
  3. The com­pa­nies recei­ved impul­ses for their fur­ther digi­ti­sa­ti­on pro­jects and coope­ra­ti­on in digi­ti­sa­ti­on teams.
  4. They were given the oppor­tu­ni­ty to exch­an­ge and compa­re notes with other com­pa­nies.

Es wur­de im Lau­fe des Pro­jek­tes auf­ge­zeigt, wel­che Ver­än­de­run­gen erfor­der­lich sind, um den digi­ta­len Wan­del erfolg­reich für die Beschäf­tig­ten und das Unter­neh­men zu gestal­ten. Einen Ein­blick in die Ergeb­nis­se erhal­ten Sie here.

Pro­ject title

Age-mixed digi­ti­sa­ti­on teams

Dura­ti­on: 01.01.2017 – 31.12.2017

Pro­ject part­ners

  • 6 small or medi­um-sized enter­pri­ses

Fun­ding

Cont­act per­son

Dr. Regi­na Osr­a­nek
Seni­or Rese­arch Assistant