The WP1 will be focused on the individuals requirements in terms of flexibility and security. The objective is to produce an empirically-based inventory of these requirements.
This inventory will help us in two ways:
- to explore the needs of individuals according to socio-demographic, work and
organizational variables and
- to understand the discrepancy between individual’s needs and organization’s offers of
security/flexibility practices and its impact on well-being and job attitudes.
In the perspective of job transitions, this research will be extended to a comparison between different organizational structures and between unemployed and employed individuals.
A PhD project will be launched and will include WA 1.1 to WA 1.5 of this project. A part-time senior researcher will help as far as methodological and statistical expertise is concerned.
The table below provides an overview of the different research activities of WP1 as well as their planning for 5 years.
|
WA |
Methodological steps |
Deliverables |
Timing (in months) |
|
1.1 |
Literature review Interview structure development Qualitative interviews |
A qualitative empirically-driven taxonomy of flexibility and security requirements |
T1-T12 |
|
1.2 |
Sample definition Questionnaire development Web-Survey design Pre-test |
List of companies involved in the web-survey Final questionnaire including indicators of the conceptual framework Adapted questionnaire to be included as a specific module in the Labour Force Survey |
T13-T18 |
|
1.3 |
Coordinating the flexicurity module within the Belgian Labour Force Survey (data collection) Descriptive and comparative analysis |
Descriptive work of individual flexibility and security requirements according to socio-demographics variables Comparative analysis of unemployed and employed individuals |
T19-T36 |
|
1.4 |
Web-survey Descriptive and comparative analysis
|
Descriptive work of individual flexibility and security requirements according to socio-demographic, work and organizational variables Comparative analysis of organizational settings |
T19-T48 |
|
1.5 |
Structural modelling (LISREL) and multi-sample modelling to compare organizational settings and unemployed vs employed individuals |
Building the theoretical model (see conceptual framework) |
T37-T60 |