Employment research

Gijs van Houten

Senior research manager

Gijs van Houten es director de investigación sénior en la unidad de Empleo de Eurofound. Tiene experiencia específica en metodología de encuestas transnacionales y en el análisis de prácticas laborales y estrategias organizacionales. Dirige el grupo de trabajo de Eurofound sobre recopilación de datos y es responsable del diseño y la metodología de la Encuesta Europea sobre las Condiciones de Trabajo 2024, que será un paso clave para preparar las encuestas para el futuro en Eurofound. Antes de incorporarse a Eurofound en 2010, trabajó en el Instituto Holandés de Investigación Social (SCP). Gijs pasó un año fuera en 2016, trabajando en el Pew Research Center en Washington, DC. Tiene una maestría en sociología de la Universidad Radboud de Nimega y un doctorado en Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Utrecht.

Temas de especialización

Gijs es experto en los siguientes temas.

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Relación laboral

Representación de los empleados

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Participación en el trabajo

Habilidades y formación

Organización del trabajo

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Small and medium-sized enterprises

Publicaciones

Gijs es el autor de las siguientes publicaciones.

Include forthcoming

Eventos, podcast y blog

Gijs ha contribuido a los siguientes eventos, entradas de blog y episodios de podcast.

19 September 2023

Episodio de podcast

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

Entrada de blog

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

Entrada de blog

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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