Tanja van der Lippe - Investments in a Sustainable Workforce in Europe

A sustainable European workforce has become increasingly relevant in the present day. Flexibility and job insecurity are omnipresent; organizational workforces are displaying growing diversity with respect to age, gender, ethnicity and family status; and Europes welfare states are delegating more and more responsibility for the well-being of workers to employers. Now, more than ever, organizations need to consider investing in workers to improve their performance and their level of satisfaction. These investments can take many forms, including flexible work arrangements, training plans, child-related policies and health programs. The crucial question is how to make this happen. Why do some organizations invest more and others less in their employees? Why do some employees make use of these investments while others do not? Why do such investments sometimes improve employee performance and satisfaction whereas in other instances they do not? Investments in a Sustainable Workforce in Europe addresses these questions. It contributes a new, large-scale survey of 259 organizations, 869 work units and 11,011 employees in 6 diverse economic sectors in Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK to study the causes and consequences of organizational investments in employees.

This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers and lecturers in the fields of sociology, business and management and organizational studies. It will also be useful for practitioners of human resource management and others interested in workforce sustainability.

Tanja van der Lippe is Professor of Sociology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Zoltn Lippnyi is Assistant Professor of Organizational and Economic Sociology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

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Investments in a Sustainable Workforce in Europe

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Anja-Kristin Abendroth is a junior professor in Technical and Social Change in the Department of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. Her research interests include social inequalities, the interplay of work and family life, digitalization of work, and organizational and cross-national comparative research. Currently, she is one of the principal investigators in the project Organizational Inequalities and Interdependencies between Capabilities in Work and Personal Life: A Study of Employees in Different Work Organizations funded by the German Science Foundation. She is also the German Collaboration Partner in the Sustainable Workforce project. Recently, she published her research on womens access to power and the gender earning gap in ILR Review and her research on telework and workfamily conflict across workplaces in Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research.

Paul de Beer is Henri Polak Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Amsterdam, affiliated with the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies/Hugo Sinzheimer Institute (AIAS-HSI), and Director of the Scientific Bureau for the Dutch Trade Union Movement, de Burcht. His research focuses on labor market issues, social policy, income distribution, industrial relations, and solidarity. He is also Chair of the Knowledge Platform Work and Income (KWI) of the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. He co-edited The labour market triangle (Edward Elgar, 2009) and Ethic diversity and solidarity (Cambridge Scholars, 2017).

Katia Begall is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Utrecht University. Her main research interests are in the division of paid and unpaid work within households, gender norms, family formation, and the interplay between organization context and the career outcomes of parents. Her publications have appeared in, among others, Population Studies, Demographic Research, European Sociological Review, Social Forces, and Journal of Marriage and the Family.

Jannes ten Berge is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology and Research School (ICS) at Utrecht University. His research interests include technological change within enterprises and its effects on workers and enterprises, and the relation between interethnic contact and interethnic attitudes. His work has been published in European Sociological Review.

Paul Boselie is Professor of Public Administration and Organization Science at the Utrecht University School of Governance (USG) at Utrecht University, Head of Department of USG, and Dutch Human Resource Management Network Board Member. His research interests are in the area of HRM and performance, high performance work systems, talent management, employer engagement, performance management, private equity, and public service performance. He was co-editor of