Health in Restructuring (HIRES) - Recommendations, National Responses and Policy Issues in the EU

Table of contents

Introductory remark

Executive Summary of the HIRES report

1. Introduction

1.1 The rationale and the actual background of the DG Employment project “Health in Restructuring” (HIRES)

1.2 Social convoy in occupational transitions

2. Restructuring and health: Reviewing present research

2.1 Definition and typology of restructuring

2.2 Measuring the prevalence and effects of restructuring on health at the EU level

2.3 The effects on individual health

2.4 The organisational health effects of restructuring

3. European social frameworks and roles of social actors

3.1 General policies of prevention and promotion 3.1.1 Origins and definitions

3.2 Occupational health services: Their role in restructuring

3.3 The role of social actors

4. Tools, instruments, and practices

4.1 Applying a systems approach to healthy changes in restructuring

4.2 Labour inspection

4.3 Regions and territories

4.4 Public employment services

4.5 Organisational level change practices

4.6 Reprioritising health issues in restructuring by unions

4.7 Individual level activities

4.8 Core principles of change management

5. Lessons from innovative approaches in restructuring andpolicy recommendations

5.1 Concrete lessons from the case studies

5.2 Policy recommendations

1. Monitoring and evaluation

2. Direct victims of downsizing: The dismissed

3. Survivor reactions and organisational performance

4. Managers responsible for the restructuring process

5. Organisational anticipation and preparation

6. Experienced justice and trust

7. Change communication plan

8. Protecting contingent and temporary workers

9. ew directions for Labour Inspectorates

10. Strengthening the role of Occupational Health Services

11. Specific support for SMEs in restructuring

12. New initiatives needed in Europe

References

About the authors of the HIRES report

Elisabeth Armgarth, B.Sc.,

Sebastiano Bagnara, Prof. Dr.,

Anna-Liisa Elo, Prof. Dr.,

Steve Jefferys, Prof.

Catelijne Joling, Dr.,

Thomas Kieselbach, Prof. Dr.,

Karl Kuhn, Dr., M.A.,

Karina ielsen, Dr.,

Jan Popma, Dr.,

ikolai Rogovsky, Dr.,

Benjamin Sahler, Prof. Dr.,

Greg Thomson, Dr.,

Claude Emmanuel Triomphe, Dr.,

Maria Widerszal-Bazyl, Dr.,

Dissemination and Consultation of the HIRES Recommendations in 13 EU Countries (HIRES PLUS)

1. Health and restructuring in the present crisis

2. HIRES Plus workshops – national overviews

3. Discussions about the HIRES recommendations

4. Common policy issues

5. Dissemination of the HIRES results

Annexes: National data and the HIRES case studies

6. Empirical background information: ational data on restructuring and related effects on health

6.1 Prevalence of restructuring and effects on health in Germany

6.2 Consequences of restructuring on employability, health and well-being in

6.3 Enterprise restructuring and the health of Dutch employees

7.1 The ILO concept of Socially Sensitive Enterprise Restructuring

7.2 Health policy in BT under continuous restructuring

7.3 Business restructuring, health and well-being at AstraZeneca: HRMtools for personal and business benefit

7.4 EDF Energy – Monitoring psychological well-being during change:Change management and resilience enhancement

7.5 Restructuring Department A460 of the German pension fund:A BGF Case Study Report

7.6 Restructuring and individual health: Ericsson and Manpower HealthPartner/Sweden

7.7 Human Resources Management protocol on restructuring

7.8 To protect the health of employees during restructuring: Case studiesfrom the pharmaceutical industry in France (ASP)

7.9 How to prevent unhealthy effects of job restructuring using the FrenchAˆACT stress prevention toolkit?

7.10 Closing of the Voikkaa paper factory: Supporting the health ofemployees

7.11 Participative restructuring toward a cascade-based network

7.12 Restructuring industry and developing a competitive economy underhealthy conditions with special focus on SMEs: Policy and actions inˆorth Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)

7.13 Group method for promoting career management and preventingsymptoms of depression in work organisations (FIOH)