EAWOP Small Group Meeting “Challenges in Work Stress” – Public Part

We kindly invite interested researchers, practititioners, and policy makers to join the public part of the EAWOP Small Group Meeting “Challenges in Work Stress” via Zoom.

Friday, 13 September 2024 (CEST, UTC+02:00)

14:30 - 14:45 Welcome
14:45 - 15:30 Keynote by Prof. Dr. Alexandra Michel
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30 Panel debate on implications for policy, practice, and research
17:30 - 18:00 Farewell

Keynote speaker: Prof. Dr. Alexandra Michel is the Scientific Head of Division 1: Changing Working World at the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), Dortmund, Germany, and an Extraordinary Professor that the Psychology Institute, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany. Her invited keynote presentation is titled "Addressing the challenge of flexible work designs: Interventions transfer strategies for policy and practice".

Keynote abstract: Flexible work designs provide a colourful mix of work at the office, at home, or other places. In line with assumptions concerning the impact of challenge stressors, flexible working can have ambivalent effects. This talk gives an overview about the ambivalent effects of flexible work designs. There will also be a specific focus on policy impact and transfer strategies to reduce negative effects and promote positive effects of flexible work designs. Thereby, the FlexAbility intervention approaches (https://www.baua.de/EN/Service/Publications/Guidance/A110-2) and empirical evidence of their effectiveness will be presented aiming to enable workers and teams to organize their flexible work in a resourceful and healthy way.

The keynote presentation will be followed by a coffee break and a debate on implications for policy, practice, and research. The panel debate will be moderated by Sabine Bergner (University of Graz). Barbara Huber (AUVA) and Paul Jiménez (BÖP & University of Graz) will discuss on site and Sonia Nawrocka (European Trade Union Institute) and Agnès Parent-Thirion (Eurofound) will join in online.

Interested? Please register via the following link until Thursday, 12 September 2024:
https://www.termino.gv.at/meet/en/b/0c54a05096ac1b3bcdb7bb9a700cdca1-358951

Sunny greetings from Graz!

Roman Prem and Bettina Kubicek
Organisers of the Small Group Meeting