Organizations play a key role in building a sustainable workforce: they invest time and money in training programs, create flexible work opportunities, develop work-life policies, try to enhance the long-term employability of older workers, and invest in flexible and secure contractual arrangements.
Our program explores the causes of such investments and their returns for both employees and the organization.
Which type of organizations invests in training programs for older employees and will it enhance employee productivity? Do leave arrangements help employees balance their work and family lives? And to what extent does investing in work flexibility improve organizational performance?
To ensure that the research findings are helpful for your organisation’s development, our research team at Utrecht University (ranked #1 in the Netherlands) will produce a tailor made complimentary benchmarking report. The report will compare your organisation within and outside of your sector, in your counry and across Europe on:
1. Investments in sustainable workforce policies, such as:
2. Returns on these investments in terms of:
If your organisation participated to the first wave of our study, your results of the two waves will be compared with each other. this longitunial element to the report will allow you to observe changes in your organisation.
The report will provide the unique opportunity to evaluate the efficacy of your HR policies and give the basis for making strategic decisions about these investments. The report will be provided free of charge in return for your organisation’s participation in the project.
2-2-18 | Academic article published: Reasons to Reduce ›
Leonie van Breeschoten, Anne Roeters and Tanja van der Lippe just published their article "Reasons to Reduce: A Vignette-Experiment Examining Men and Women’s Considerations to Scale Back Following Childbirth" in Social Politics.
18-01-18 | Cyprus meeting Cost Action ›
Sustainable Workforce’s Jelle Lössbroek became a Management Committee Member of COST Action IS 1409. COST Actions are funded by the European Union to promote transnational interdisciplinary collaboration: Action IS1409 is a European platform for researchers on the interrelations of gender, health and policies to extend working lives.
14-12-17 | Academic article published: Understanding old-age adaptation policies ›
In December 2017, an article has been published in Ageing and Society by Jelle Lössbroek, Bram Lancee, Tanja van der Lippe and Joop Schippers. The full title is: Understanding old-age adaptation policies in Europe: the influence of profit, principles and pressures.
