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Zukunftsfähigkeit

English translation: to ensure adaptability to future needs/requirements

GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
German term or phrase:Zukunftsfähigkeit sicherstellen
English translation:to ensure adaptability to future needs/requirements
Entered by: Steffen Walter

02:48 Oct 10, 2003
German to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Human Resources / Automotive
German term or phrase: Zukunftsfähigkeit
Zukunftsfähigkeit der Personalarbeit sicherstellen
bhpirch
Local time: 01:02
to ensure that human resource [personnel-related] activities respond to future needs/requirements
Explanation:
or "...are adaptable to future needs/requirements"

IMO it's not so much about taking precautions against human resource activities becoming obsolete or superfluous in the future - the emphasis seems to be on building in enough flixibility to be prepared for future requirements/challenges.

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Note added at 5 hrs 49 mins (2003-10-10 08:37:59 GMT)
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oops ... flexibility, of course
Selected response from:

Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 08:02
Grading comment
Thank you, this seems to be the best answer to explain what they are talking about.
Beate
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3sustainability
Kim Metzger
4 +1to ensure that human resource [personnel-related] activities respond to future needs/requirements
Steffen Walter
4future viability
zhdim
3 +1future relevance
Cilian O'Tuama
3 +1long-term effectiveness
Deborah Shannon
3secure the future of
CMJ_Trans (X)
2Futurability
Sabine Tietge


  

Answers


6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Zukunftsfähigkeit
future viability


Explanation:
Seems like the best option...


[PDF]The Future of Industrialized Cities and Regions in Central and ...
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
... cushioning of social hardship than towards the future viability of sectors ... der regionalen Abfederung sozialer Härten als an der Zukunftsfähigkeit von Branchen ...
www.ioer.de/MOE/PDF/lpz_decl.pdf

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Note added at 8 mins (2003-10-10 02:56:42 GMT)
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SAC species account - 1044 Southern damselfly Coenagrion ...
... large size of the two cSACs, and a long history of records indicating well-establishedpopulations, should ***ensure the future viability of*** the small populations ...
www.jncc.gov.uk/ProtectedSites/SACselection/ species.asp?FeatureIntCode=S1044 - 19k - Cached - Similar pages

Education | Designs on art funding
Designs on art funding More money is needed to ***ensure the future viability*** of the art and design sector, argues Professor Norma Starszakowna. ...
education.guardian.co.uk/print/ 0,3858,4321724-106726,00.html


zhdim
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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47 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
Futurability


Explanation:
I found several hits for this term on google.

[PDF]The Changing Face of Interconnection Systems
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
... Amphenol addresses all three aspects of the market with interconnection systems to
meet and exceed the users requirements with futurability designed in to the ...
www.amphenol.co.uk/pdf/ the%20changing%20face%20of%20interconnection%20systems.pdf - Similar pages

Sabine Tietge
Local time: 11:32
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Deborah Shannon: sorry, but there's something about this word that jars (maybe only verbs work with -ability?)
6 hrs
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48 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
Zukunftsfähigkeit
sustainability


Explanation:
Make personnel work a sustainable undertaking? It's not easy to tell what the German phrase is getting at.




    Reference: http://www.stiftungzukunft.de/english.html
Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 00:02
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 459

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  zhdim: Hi Kim. Yeah, I struggled with that as well. Ensure the sustainability of...? Of what?
1 min
agree  Anglo-German (X)
58 mins
agree  elzosim
7 hrs
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
secure the future of


Explanation:
something nice and general for want of more context

CMJ_Trans (X)
Local time: 08:02
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 39
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
future relevance


Explanation:
I understand it to mean ensuring that the Personalarbeit is/remains relevant for the future, i.e. does not become obsolete.

Cilian O'Tuama
Germany
Local time: 08:02
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 69

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Deborah Shannon: me too, I didn't see this before I posted my suggestions
11 mins
  -> greater choice for asker
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Zukunftsfähigkeit
long-term effectiveness


Explanation:
Some more ideas based on subjective experience only:

- Ensuring the long-term effectiveness of our human resources approach
- Ensuring our HR approach works effectively in changing circumstances
- Ensuring our personnel strategy responds effectively to future circumstances
- Ensuring robust and adaptable personnel management practice

Maybe this is the kind of idea they are driving at?


Deborah Shannon
Germany
Local time: 08:02
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 91

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Steffen Walter: same lines of reasoning, methinks ;-)
7 mins
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Zukunftsfähigkeit
to ensure that human resource [personnel-related] activities respond to future needs/requirements


Explanation:
or "...are adaptable to future needs/requirements"

IMO it's not so much about taking precautions against human resource activities becoming obsolete or superfluous in the future - the emphasis seems to be on building in enough flixibility to be prepared for future requirements/challenges.

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Note added at 5 hrs 49 mins (2003-10-10 08:37:59 GMT)
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oops ... flexibility, of course

Steffen Walter
Germany
Local time: 08:02
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 259
Grading comment
Thank you, this seems to be the best answer to explain what they are talking about.
Beate

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Deborah Shannon: future needs also good
1 hr
  -> Thanks.
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