EIPA event

Shaping the New World of Work: Wellbeing in the workplace ─ the key to success

26 June 2023
Online
10.00 - 15.00 CET

About the event

The pandemic has led to a discussion about increasing flexibility in working times and places of work, as well as strengthening mental health. The demand for ‘purpose’ and a shift in values between generations have led to the rise of New Work, which involves empowerment, personal responsibility, self-organisation, collaborative forms of work, sustainability, flat hierarchies, project structures, resilience, and employee engagement. Digitalisation, Decarbonisation, Diversity and Demography need to be managed simultaneously with a demand for more holistic approaches. Organisations around the world need to find new ways to design the future of work, and managers play a decisive role in shaping employee attitudes and mindsets.

Managers face the challenge of acting as role models and coping with crisis, with virtual or remote leadership becoming an overnight challenge as homeworking has increased. New forms of cooperation and collaboration need to be promoted and managed virtually, with trust and control through goals, traditional management structures, and time measurement systems replacing previous control mechanisms. Health promotion geared towards prevention is becoming more important, especially in terms of employer attractiveness and retention management. Corporate health management needs to be intensified with a special focus on mental health, as employability, skills, health, and employee engagement must be promoted at every phase of life.

Good leadership and collaboration, as well as a working environment characterized by appreciation, are key areas for action within today’s health strategies in administration. Physical health and resilience, both individual and organizational, are becoming core issues, especially within the context of absenteeism in public administration. Attractive offers, including good working relationships and conditions, are desirable not only for recruitment but also for employee retention. Well-being in the workplace and life balance become more important in the intergenerational perspective.

By the end of the workshop, you will:

  • understand the core aspects to design good working conditions and working relations as the base of resilient organisation and apply this to your own organisational context;
  • be better equipped to explain how things work to your leaders and staff members as part of your own New Work Design;
  • be able to use the well- being concept to strengthen mental health in the workplace and avoid absenteeism.

Speakers

9.55 Platform is opened and participants are admitted
Central European Time (Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna)
10.00
Welcome and introductory remarks
Dr Beatrix Behrens, seconded Expert HRM and Public Management, EIPA, Head of Organisational Development at the University of Applied Labour Studies of the Federal Employment Agency, Germany
10.10
Workshop Part 1
Erika Landi, Director for HR Support and Social Services at the European Parliament
Framing wellbeing at work/Insights into psychosocial risks and mental health issues
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Workshop part 2
Erika Landi
Workplace trends/Particularities of the political and public sector environment/ Vision around trust-based and listening organisations
15.00 End of the online event

Executives, HR – officials, strategy developers, policymakers, health managers inside public administrations, consultants, diversity managers, researchers.

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Interested in learning more about this topic?

Have a look at our upcoming event A Culture of Trust with CAF: Employee satisfaction and well-being held on 6 June from 13.00 – 14.00.

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