Work Organisation and Restructuring in the Knowledge Society the project

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WORKS
Work Organisation and Restructuring in the
Knowledge Society the project
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6FP Citizens and governance in the KBS
2.1.3 Changes in work in the knowledge society
Co-ordinatorHIVA-K.U.LEUVEN - Belgium FORBA
Austria LONDONMET - UK FTU 
Belgium UPSPS  Greece UT  Netherlands UESSE
X - UK ISB  Hungary ISF MUNCHEN -
Germany FZK Germany IET  Portugal NIWL -
Sweden IRES - Italy SINTEF - Norway ATK -
Sweden CEE-CNRS France IS - Bulgaria June
2005 May 2009
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WORKS Key issues

• Changes in work and NFWO from the perspective of
  global restructuring of value chains
• Changes in use of knowledge and skills
• Different ways of achieving flexibility
• Use of time
• Occupational identities
• Impact on Quality of Life
• Social dialogue and the regional institutional
  context

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WORKS 5 subgroups

• Theories and concepts
• Quantitative analysis
• Qualitative research
• Policy, social dialogue and institutions
• Going global

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WORKS and gender
The gender dimension

• Built in as a mainstream horizontal perspective
• In research methodology
• In analysis
• In reporting
• In dissemination

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WORKS 5 subgroups
The project management
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WORKS 3 project periods

• Integrating knowledge
• Innovating knowledge
• Going beyond to a global and future perspective

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WORKS Integrating knowledge

• Theories and concepts
• Regional and thematical state-of-the-art
• Quantitative analysis
• Mapping surveys, questions and indicator-sets
• Assessment organisational surveys roadmap
• Policy, social dialogue and institutions
• Mapping and research instrument
• Qualitative research
• Development of comparative methodologies and
  training
• Going global First conference

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WORKS Innovating knowledge

• Quantitative analysis
• Secondary analyses on datasets of organisation
  and individual survey databases
• Qualitative research
• Organisational case studies focusing on buiness
  functions of different production processes
• In a regional comparative perspective
• Including individuals and their family context
• Including the role of regional policy and social
  dialogue at work

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WORKS Innovating knowledge

• 3. Theories and concepts
• Horizontal thematical analysis/papers on core
  issues, cross-cutting regions and business
  functions
• Integration of qualitative and quantitative
  outcome

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WORKS Going global

• Policy papers
• Training initiatives
• For researchers
• For unions
• Going global
• Global dissemination conference
• National dissemination activities
• Journal Work Organisation, Labour and
  Globalisation

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Quantitative pillar

• Partners
• U ESSEX (UK), CEE (Fr), HIVA-KUL (B)
• ISB (Hu), IET (P), IRES (It), Sintef (N), ATK
  (S),
• IAB (G) OSA (NL)
• Two streams
• Individual data
• Organisation data
• Four phases
• Identification of indicators / datasets
  benchmarking
• Focus on comparative analysis
• Reporting
• Training/contribute to innovation

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Quantitative pillar four phases

• Indicators and datasets - benchmarking
• Update digital toolkit
• Mapping of indicators and surveys on 5 key
  issues
• Make or buy
• NFWO
• Flexibility
• Skills and qualifications
• Quality of working life
• Peer review workshop
• Experiences with indicators in (organisation)
  surveys
• Critical assessment

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Quantitative pillar four phases

• 3. Analysis
• Comparative analysis on key issues of WORKS
• Summer school (in winter)
• Reporting and integration. Innovation
• Integration with other WORKS findings
• Recommendations on the innovation of surveys to
  measure changes in work

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WORKS Workshop Leuven

• We wish you a fruitful meeting