Intercultural Dialogue in Europe: towards a European Identity (EU)
Between summer 2006 and summer 2007 the number of jobs in the European Union has increased by three million. In total there are 222 million jobs. Europe has about 500 million citizens of which 325 million are employed aged 15-64.
The job increase is especially established by economic growth in Germany, Poland and Spain.
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More than a half of the European employees between 20 and the 39 years consider a job change.
According to 39 per cent switching to another job is to blame to their employer. Employers insufficiently support employees to realise their potential.
This is the outcome of the research report ‘ Dream job or Career Nightmare?’ of the international consultancy OPP. The investigation has been conducted under 3,000 fulltime employees in 6 European countries, in the age category 20-69 years.
Flexicurity is the magic word.
If you believe having a job for life is a thing of the past, then you are like three quarters of European citizens. Today’s fast-changing global economy is the culprit.
To make more and better jobs possible, the European Commission is getting behind the active labour market concept of flexicurity. This combines security both for workers and companies.
One of its main principles is to narrow the comfort gap, say between someone with a steady longterm paycheck and the person in and out of the job centre, whose life feels more like walking a tightrope.
A spokeswoman in Brussels:
“What are the next steps? Basically, we are looking at establishing common principles which can then be adopted at the European Council in December.”
Flexicurity’s aims include ensuring that more Europeans enjoy income support between jobs or have opportunities to start their own businesses. It is also to prevent companies being mummified in red tape. (Source Euronews )
A Revolution for Communication? Implications and Challenges for Communication Management and PR
More than 400 communication experts from all over Europe participated in the second major study dealing with the way weblogs and social software are changing organizational practice.