Meadow : what’s new ?

Final MEADOW Stakeholder Meeting in Brussels and publication of the MEADOW Guidelines

 The final Meadow Conference took place in Brussels on 29 January 2010.

 The main objectives of this meeting were to:

1) present the MEADOW Guidelines, including the results of the testing phase demonstrating the feasability of producing harmonised statistics on organisational dynamics at the EU level; 

2) debate the contribution which harmonised data and indicators of organisational change could make to EU policy making, including policies in the areas of innovation, ICT, employement, vocational training and quality of work. 

The meeting  involved a wide range of potential users of the Guidelines, including representatives from the policy, scientific, business and trade union communities.

What is Meadow ?

MEADOW (MEasuring the Dynamics of Organisations and Work) is a European project gathering 14 research teams coordinated by the CEE (Centre d'Eudes de l'Emploi). MEADOW project is designed to set out Guidelines for collecting and interpreting harmonised data at the European level on organisational change and its economic and social impacts. The Guidelines will provide a framework within which existing European surveys on organisational change and work restructuring could evolve towards comparability, as well as providing norms for the construction of new survey instruments in the field. It will provide an instrument for improving the empirical basis of research and policy on the relation between organisational change and key economic and social indicators in the knowledge-based economy, including productivity growth and innovative performance, and sustainable social equality in terms of access to jobs, work environments, and influence at the workplace.

The Meadow Team