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| WORKS, Changes in Work |
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Making a case for proliferating Dutch and German work organisation surveys to other nations of Europe in order to understand changes in work. On behalf of OSA, Institute for Labour Studies, Tilburg, Netherlands, and the IAB, Institute for Employment Research of the Federal Employment Agency (BA) in Nuremberg, Germany, a report was written on the key literature based on two longstanding organisation panel surveys, one in the Netherlands (the so-called OSA Labour Demand Panel) and the other in Germany (the IAB Betriebspanel). The project was sponsored by WORKS, a project organisation build with a grant from the European Commission Sixth Framework Programme. The core of the WORKS project, financed by the European Commission, is to improve our understanding of changes in work in the knowledge-based society, their driving forces and their implications for the use of knowledge and skills, for flexibility and for the quality of life. In particular, new forms of work organisations will be analysed taking account of global value chain restructurings and regional institutional contexts. A major instrument to monitor such changes in the domain of work is the systematic use of company panel surveys. Part of the WORKS project is to asses the policy usefulness of measuring the extent of organisational change in Europe, to begin with of exploring existing organisation surveys in Europe. The report deals with the key literature from the Dutch and German pioneer panel surveys with which labour markets can be repeatedly monitored from the perspective or labour market organisations. Recent literature (after 2000 and dealing with panel data) from both panels is discussed for the following five WORKS themes: |
| 1) restructuring of the global value chain: analysing global division of work and networking; analysing drivers of change; | 2) changes in work organisation: analysing new forms of work organisation, division of work and changes in workplace design; | 3) flexibility: analysing the use of different forms of flexibility | 4) skills and internal labour markets: analysing the impact on the internal labour market, in particular skills acquisition and policies, and; | 5) career trajectories and the quality of working life: analysing impact on career trajectories and occupational identities. |
See the WORKS website for more information. Soon the full report will be available on the WORKS website and this webpage. |
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