High Performance & Workforce Well-being
Evidence from European Companies

With Stavroula Demetriades – Senior Research Manager at Eurofound: 20th October 2021

Recent research from over 20,000 workplaces across Europe shows that organisations in which employees enjoy a high degree of autonomy and responsibility, regular opportunities for learning and development, direct participation in decision making, and ‘employee voice’ achieve significantly higher business performance as well as enhanced workforce health and wellbeing. Yet only around one-fifth of companies have these beneficial bundles of workplace practices in place.

The webinar discussed specific workplace practices that can help businesses achieve win-win outcomes, the evidence behind them, and how to make change happen in practice.

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Speaker

Stavroula Demetriades
Senior Research Manager, Eurofound

Stavroula has responsibility for research in the areas of innovation, workplace practices and job creation at Eurofound (one of the joint sponsors of the study), and has a long-term interest in workplace innovation.

Facilitators

Dr Peter Totterdill
Founding Director
Workplace Innovation Europe

More about Peter

Dr Peter Totterdill is a Founding Director of Workplace Innovation Europe CLG, a not-for-profit organisation created to help public and private sector organisations achieve enhanced performance and better working lives. A leading European expert in workplace innovation, Peter’s career has focused on building bridges between research and practice. He has led many successful innovation and change initiatives in both private and public sector organisations. Peter was previously a Research Professor at Nottingham Trent University, and has held Visiting Professorships at Kingston University London and Mykolas Romeris University Vilnius.

Rosemary Exton
Founding Director
Workplace Innovation Europe

More about Rosemary

Rosemary Exton is a Founding Director of Workplace Innovation Europe CLG. Her experience of workplace innovation dates back to 2002, and builds on many years’ experience as a clinician, manager and trade unionist in the UK’s National Health Service where she instigated, drove and delivered many complex change and improvement initiatives. Rosemary has played key roles in several international research and development projects, whilst simultaneously delivering leadership development programmes and facilitating organisational change in diverse companies and public sector organisations across Europe.

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