Health in restructuring: innovative approaches and policy recommendations
book
The health dimension of enterprise restructuring is a widely neglected area of research, intervention and public concern. Restructuring is taking place in every competing organisation and is therefore affecting all European societies. With restructuring is meant an organizational change that is much more significant than commonplace changes and affecting at least a whole organizational sector or an entire company in the forms of closure, downsizing, outsourcing, off shoring, sub-contracting, merging, delocalisation, internal job mobility or other complex internal reorganizations. Besides or through its effects on employment restructuring also has vast impact on the health of employees, organisations and communities. A concept of enterprise restructuring, that aims at preserving certain features of a European social model of employment relations with the new demands of a globalised competition has to take into account not only economic indicators of the health of a company but also the individual effects of restructuring on the workforce which will show a considerable long-term impact on the competitivity of the economy as well. This new understanding broadens the perspective from a uni-lateral shareholder perspective often pursued in the restructuring efforts to a more balanced view on the interests of all stakeholders involved in the full process of company adaptation and accommodation to the globalised economy with the goal of socially responsible restructuring.
Topics
TNO Identifier
279786
Publisher
European Commission
Collation
224 p.
Place of publication
Brussels
Files
To receive the publication files, please send an e-mail request to TNO Repository.