About Membership

NOCA is a broad association based on knowledge sharing and networking within HR-related topics. NOCA's members count

Public and private companies and organizations
Universities and other educational institutions
Consulting companies with a focus on organizational and management development

What binds the association together is the desire for a learning environment, where the sharing of knowledge and experience as well as insight into the latest research within HR creates curiosity and joint learning for the benefit of the company's competitiveness. NOCA's activities are characterized by the principle "something for something". In practice, this means that the members must be willing to contribute positively with knowledge and experience from daily work. On the other hand, it is also a given that they get a lot in return.

The areas of interest in NOCA span business development, strategic competence development, organizational design, talent development, management development, employer branding, global HR, social media etc. It is the members who set the agenda and the themes therefore change when new needs arise. Help set the agenda yourself.

What can you get out of NOCA?

7000+ sparring partners in your network, with whom you meet at NOCA activities
40+ annual events
85+ member organizations as peers
A learning platform where you can access a lot of lectures and presentations (release date not yet published)

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The advantages of being part of a professional HR association like NOCA are many:

The network meetings:

As a participant in NOCA's network meetings, you:
Knowledge sharing and exchange of experience with colleagues from other organisations
Link between theory and practice
Inspiration from other organizations – Best Practice
Feedback on own company's issues and challenges.

NOCA's Anniversary:

NOCA's Annual Day each year takes up a current theme of interest to HR in the member companies. On this day, the most current challenges are put into perspective and problematized, and the participants get inspiration for the development of HR in their own organization from leading researchers and practitioners.

Academy of Management Annual Conference (AOM)

Every year, NOCA organizes a trip to the annual AOM conference. Traveling with NOCA means significantly increased benefits, as NOCA holds debriefing sessions every day to anchor learning from the day's many posts. In this way, NOCA creates an overview in an otherwise unmanageable large conference and creates learning by ensuring the link between what was experienced and the reality in which it must function after returning to its own organization. Every year from 20 to 40 participants take part in this trip, so it is also a great networking opportunity.

The Crane Conference

Since 2012, NOCA has been a partner with CBS and CBS Executive for this year's HR conference - the Cranet Conference, which has been held at CBS for almost 30 years.
Cranet is based on a collaboration between more than 50 countries, which every 4-5 years conducts a comprehensive international survey in all these countries of the HR that is actually carried out. This study is both interesting nationally, where local benchmarks are helpful, and internationally, where it is possible to compare data across national borders. The report that is published is a solid HR reference work. In the years when this study is carried out, the report is part of the proceeds of the annual conference.
The Cranet Conference builds a bridge between research and practice by having leading researchers and practitioners as speakers and facilitators.

Study tours/ Learning Expeditions

NOCA typically organizes a study trip to a foreign business school or a Learning Expedition to a foreign company somewhere in Europe once a year. The purpose of these trips is partly to create a focus on the research and teaching that takes place here, partly to create networks and learning in the group of participants with a view to anchoring learning in one's own organisation. At Learning Expeditions, we are invited to discuss the HR challenges that our company hosts are preoccupied with right now. What keeps them up at night.

Knowledge sharing

In addition to the knowledge sharing that results from the above-mentioned activities, knowledge and experiences are shared freely between the member companies, partly on NOCA's website, partly bilaterally with the people with whom contact has been established and who have thus become part of the personal network.
Increased knowledge of the interaction between business development and strategic competence development.
Access to international research and knowledge about organizational and management development and inspiration for further development of Corporate Academies.

Counseling

Possibility of evaluation of the organisation's own academy, the training function and development activities.