D8.2: Comparative analysis of organisation surveys in Europe. Literature review of secondary analysis

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D9.2: The transformation of work?
Part 1: Tracing employment in business functions. A sectoral and occupational approach

Part 2: Trends in work organisation (03/12/07: updated version with new analyses and results based on the data of the last wave of EWCS2005)

Part 3: Work flexibility in Europe: a sectoral and occupational description of trends in work hours, part-time work, temporary work, and self-employment

Part 4: Occupational change in Europe

Part 5: A quantitative evaluation of the shape of employment in Europe
Introduction and executive summaries

D9.1: The transformation of work? A quantitative evaluation of the shape of employment in Europe

First report from WP9

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The core focus of WORKS is change in the nature of the work caused by global restructuring. The results of these changes are contradictory. On the one hand, it is expected that increased competitive pressures will lead to greater technical and commercial innovation, which will in turn require a more flexible, skilled and motivated workforce. On the other, flexibility might become a tool used by employers to extract more value from their workforces. Thus, flexibility is a double-edged concept. Occupations and industries that form part of the ‘knowledge society’ are expected to be especially subject to these sorts of contradictory pressures, because of the huge new investments they require, because they are particularly competitive sectors, but also because knowledge can itself be used as a tool either to improve or more closely control the nature of the work people do.
This report is divided in two parts. The first part, containing five different chapters, focuses on the evaluation of some general changes in the nature of employment. It does so first, in the introduction, against what we know from previous research relevant to the main themes of WORKS. It looks at this from three standpoints: trends, national similarities and differences, and personal welfare effects.
The second part of the report provides a direct link to the other empirical research activities of WORKS, the qualitative case study research with organisations and individuals, by providing relevant background data that can be derived from the Community Labour Force Survey, which is the best available source for EU-wide employment data.

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This Questionnaire database provides access to an international selection of organisational surveys and includes links as well to organisation surveys as to the questions that are currently used in these surveys.
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