Employment research

Gijs van Houten

Senior research manager

Gijs van Houten ist leitender Forschungsmanager im Referat Beschäftigung bei Eurofound. Er verfügt über besondere Expertise in der Methodik länderübergreifender Erhebungen und der Analyse von Arbeitsplatzpraktiken und Organisationsstrategien. Er leitet die Eurofound-Taskforce zur Datenerhebung und ist verantwortlich für das Design und die Methodik der Europäischen Erhebung über die Arbeitsbedingungen 2024, die ein wichtiger Schritt zur Zukunftssicherung der Erhebungen bei Eurofound sein wird. Bevor er 2010 zu Eurofound kam, arbeitete er am Niederländischen Institut für Sozialforschung (SCP). Im Jahr 2016 verbrachte Gijs ein Jahr lang und arbeitete am Pew Research Center in Washington, DC. Er hat einen Master in Soziologie von der Radboud-Universität Nijmegen und einen Doktortitel in Sozialwissenschaften von der Universität Utrecht.

Thematische Expertise

Gijs hat Expertise in den folgenden Themen.

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Arbeitsverhältnis

Arbeitnehmervertretung

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Teilhabe am Arbeitsplatz

Fähigkeiten und Schulungen

Arbeitsorganisation

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Small and medium-sized enterprises

Publikationen

Gijs hat an den folgenden Publikationen mitgewirkt.

Include forthcoming

Veranstaltungen, Podcast und Blog

Gijs hat an den folgenden Veranstaltungen, Blogbeiträgen und Podcastfolgen mitgewirkt.

19 September 2023

Podcastfolge

Does Europe have the skills it needs for a changing economy?

In this episode of Eurofound Talks Mary McCaughey speaks with Eurofound Research Manager Tina Weber, Eurofound Senior Research Manager Gijs van Houten, and Giovanni Russo, Senior Expert at CEDEFOP, about Europe’s skills challenges and what can be done to help workers and businesses adapt to future skills demands.

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13 January 2021

Blogbeitrag

COVID-19, Big Brother and the business case for doing better

The COVID-19 pandemic compelled governments to take exceptional measures to monitor and control the spread of the Coronavirus. Among them was the introduction in most EU Member States of tracking apps to gather data on citizens who have contracted the virus and to trace their contacts, a measure that inevitably traded off privacy protection for effective infection prevention.

27 November 2020

Blogbeitrag

Managing skills requires skilled managers

According to the dictionary, an organisation is an organised group of people with a particular purpose. To achieve this purpose, tasks are divided between the members of the group, and the task of some of those people is to manage the others. Interestingly, whereas most tasks are allocated based on competence and qualifications, the allocation of the task of managing people is often based on a different rationale. Many managers are appointed to their role because they exceled at the tasks that are carried out by the people they are supposed to manage. Many business owners take on the management of their staff, regardless of whether this is where their strengths lie. But people management is not easy and requires skills that, contrary to what is often assumed, are not just learned by doing.

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