Globalization of engineering

Abstract

The central part of the organization's success is the competence of the personnel. The competence required for the tasks is compared with the competence of the individual and the team, based on which development needs are obtained, as well as the plans to fulfill these needs. In a constantly changing world, employability can only be maintained with the ability to quickly learn new things and by acquiring the required new knowledge and skills. Diverse competence can give us an advantage to fulfill our qualitative and quantitative competence needs in the future. For many organizations today, competence development is part of the strategy and its implementation. What possibilities global engineering resources can give to technology company? What does it require from people in the Nordics to cooperate with Croatian resources and what we need from the Croats? The purpose of this thesis work is to study the history, culture, and values of Croatia. An essential part of the work are interview studies for Croatian designers and Nordic managers. Interviews are done to collect experiences, challenges and working practices in cooperation between Nordic people and Croatians. The goal of the interview findings, theoretical research and identification of Croatian culture is to form guidelines and practices for efficient and productive cooperation, which will fulfill the quantitative and qualitative needs for engineering skills in the future. Managing high-quality skills gives some extra challenges within multicultural team. It is important to understand how to manage team, consisting of Nordic and Croatian employees.