Dr. Beatrix Behrens

Fields of Specialisation:

Human Resource Management; leadership.

CV in English

Dr Beatrix Behrens joined EIPA as a Seconded National Expert in the Unit for European Public Management, for a period of six months starting in October 2009. She is Director of the HR-Politics division at the German Bundesagentur für Arbeit (BA) in Nuremberg. Before taking over this position, she was Director of HR-Development, where she ran a project to develop and establish a modern and integrated HR-Management system with a special focus on managing competencies and introducing dialogue-based modern leadership instruments to the organisation.
She obtained an MA in Public Administration from the University of Constance and a Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of St. Gallen. In her thesis she examined within the frame of a single case study, the question of why theoretically well founded employee appraisal systems might not work in the practical life of federal organisations (focus on organisational and HR-Development aspects).
After working in the USA for several non-profit organisations, Dr Behrens started her career at the BA as a trainee and took over several leadership functions at different levels, focusing on HR management. She has a long experience in staff training and developing strategic concepts (i.e. demographic sensitive HR-Management). She also publishes articles on HR-Management with a current focus on demographic sensitive HR-Policies.