Over nearly a decade, the Foundation has led a Europe-wide programme of research, policy development and training for workplace health promotion (WHP). In this time the Foundation has commissioned the largest single research programme on WHP to take place in Europe and possible anywhere in the world
The current programme of work ‘Facing up to the challenges of European society’, taking the Foundation up to the year 2000, examines the issues the people of Europe must deal with in the coming years. They are: employment, health and well-being, social cohesion, equal opportunities, sustainable
Eurocounsel, an action research programme of the European Foundation, has examined how guidance and counselling services are responding to the needs of the unemployed, those at risk of unemployment and the requirements of the labour market in the 1990s. Initiated in 1991 it has been based primarily
Precarious employment not only covers employees with fixed term and temporary contracts - and some categories of self-employed workers - but also workers with low incomes and/or short working hours. This publication summarises the extent, consequences and reasons for precarious employment in order
Communiqué is the newsletter of the Foundation. It is published 6 times per year and provides up-to-date news and information on the Foundation's work and research. This issue contains the following articles: An abrupt halt to a brilliant career; Monitoring industrial change in Europe; Planning for
Communiqué is the newsletter of the Foundation It is published 6 times per year and provides up-to-date news and information on the Foundation's work and research. This issue contains the following articles: Open dialogue a prerequisite for successful CSR; End of an era - an ode to Eric Verborgh
This literature review examines small business in the Czech Republic, including issues of collective representation and bargaining, working and employment conditions, arbitration procedures, size and sector considerations. It outlines policy implications. There is an additional statistical
SMEs constitute the dominant part of the Danish firm structure (Hoff, Jens, Demokrati på arbejdspladsen), especially in the manufacturing industries - dominated by craft-based producers. Many of the findings presented in this literature do not distinguish between SMEs and large firms. But at the
Research on industrial relations in Germany is generally lagging behind if compared to the US or Great Britain. This holds true for all company size classes. Furthermore, most of the existing German studies and investigations are focussed on large enterprises, where organisational structures for