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AI & Soc (2014) 29:267275 DOI 10.1007/s00146-013-0484-9
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Trust and team development to ght chaos: three student reports
Annett Juras Janine Brockmeier
Vera Niedergesaess Dietrich Brandt
Received: 26 October 2012 / Accepted: 8 February 2013 / Published online: 9 July 2013 Springer-Verlag London 2013
Abstract The world is increasingly developing towards complex and chaotic behaviour. Enterprises are challenged to establish exible but trustworthy structures of doing business within global instability. We need to educate our students today for coping with such chaotic patterns in their professional future. As an example, the student-run Europe-wide organisation ESTIEM is offering the 2-week Summer Academy (SAC) to develop the communication skills corresponding. It also means among other aims to strengthen mutual trust through interaction of the students. In 2011, one of the SAC took place in Serbia. About 15 students attended it from all over Europe. In the paper, three of these students report on their experiences as a set of suggestions of how to develop further engineering and economics teaching towards international trust and stability.
Keywords Chaotic behaviour Communication
Education Global stability Interaction
1 Introduction (Dietrich Brandt, Academic ProjectLeader)
1.1 Challenging university education
In a highly complex and rapidly changing global economy [] businesses everywhere are rearranging their activities to carry them out in networks and teams. Some businesses, for example, are entering into highly integrated, long-term relationships with customers and suppliers [] Many of these networks transcend national as well as organizational boundaries (Garcia 2000, 49).
the integration into one management system of enterprises that are linked economically rather than controlled legally, has [] given dominance in the industry and in the marketplace. [] Increasingly, however, the economic chain brings together genuine partners, that is, institutions in which there is equality of power and genuine independence. (Drucker 1999, 33).
These two quotations of the well-known researcher Linda Garcia and the famous consultant Peter Drucker (both USA) indicate how enterprises are increasingly challenged by the need to establish exible but trustworthy structures of doing business with each other, within globally instable systems. Whether they like it or not, enterprises and their managers are forced to take into account how our global world more and more frequently tends to develop chaotic behaviour.
How can our students of today...