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The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS)

The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research initiates and supports basic and applied research with a view to improving our knowledge about working life, public health and welfare. www.fas.forskning.se. The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS) .

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The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS)

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  1. The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research initiates and supports basic and applied research with a view to improving our knowledge about working life, public health and welfare. www.fas.forskning.se

  2. The Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS) • Working life and labour market issues • Welfare and social policy • Public health and quality of life • Research budget of around MSEK 300 • www.vinnova.se also work research • National Institute of Working Life www.niwl.se source of info • www.larena.se learning network • www.workinnet.org ERA-Net on work

  3. Conceptions of good work • EU -quality of work&more&better jobs • ILO and decent work • Swedish Good Work Conception • Howard Gardner and Good Work • Karasek&Theorell model • Antonovsky – sense of coherence • Studs Terkel and working cultures • Sustanainable work systems&health • Healthy work places &healthy corporations

  4. Good work at risk……. • End of work or just end of good work? • High level of long-term sick leave • Work-intensification&stress • High level of temporary job-contracts • Traditional occupational hazards • Gender gaps&work life balance • Coping deficit&learning environments • Downsizing and replacement • Flexibility as risk and challenge

  5. New policies for lifelong learning • Lifelong learning as buzzword • Education, education, education.. • 50%-objective on higher ed. transition • Formal education from 5 to 25 plus • Career gap&worklife balance at risk • Flexibility and learning centres • Validation, RPL and skills portfolios • Surf-learning or surface learning • Risk of overeducation

  6. Signs of underlearning at work • Social bias of in-service training • Less time for reflection&rethinking • Constraints of action&influence • No culture for knowledge utilisation • Mismatch skills&requirements • Attitudinal barriers&discrimination • Traditional work organisation • Weak wage incentives for learning

  7. Future challenges for good work and good learning • New strategies for learning at work • Alliances between social partners • Focus on learning incentives • New models for validation&RPL • Career systems and support models • Learning agreements • Learning accounts • Continuous skill development • Sustainable work systems

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