WORKSHOP: Employee Participation in Irish Workplaces
March 7, 2025 @ 10:00 – 16:00
Why does it matter? What does good look like? And how can we make a difference?
More than 70 years’ worth of evidence shows that workers with greater control over their own jobs are more productive and less likely to be sick than those in traditional hierarchical organisations.
They bring ideas to work, contribute to improving the business, and help to build agile and resilient organisations. They also learn and develop on the job, and experience significantly greater wellbeing and satisfaction.
Yet too many Irish companies have yet to realise the full potential of employee participation. Drawing evidence from Ireland and elsewhere in Europe, this interactive workshop is your opportunity to learn from leading practice and identify practical steps to achieving win-win outcomes for organisations and their employees alike.
Invited Speakers include:
The Workshop is a joint initiative by SIPTU’s Ideas Institute and Workplace Innovation Europe as part of the BroadVoice project, funded by the European Commission to explore the role of trade unions and worker representatives in supporting more productive, healthier ways of working in European enterprises.
The Institute for the Development of Employees Advancement Services (IDEAS) promotes the introduction of new thinking and new services into the workplace for the benefit of employees and the enterprise through workplace innovation, education and research.
Workplace Innovation Europe CLG is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to stimulating and resourcing workplace innovation through research, professional development and consultancy.
Programme
10.00
Arrival, registration and refreshments
10.30
Welcome, Aims of the workshop and Introductions
Brian McGann (IDEAS)
Peter Totterdill & Rosemary Exton (Workplace Innovation Europe)
11.00
Keynote speech – Gerry McCormack (European Officer, ICTU)
11.20
Direct participation and why it is important
Stavroula Demetriades (Eurofound)
11.40
BroadVoice: a call to action
Peter Totterdill (Workplace Innovation Europe)
11.55
Group discussion and feedback
12.30
Lunch
13.15
How IDEAS unleashes direct participation in the workplace – Tony Murphy
13.30
Short films: Fleetwood Paints and Kirchhoff Automotive
13.45
Panel discussion with a manager and employee representative from Aughinish Alumina*, Fleetwood Paints and Kirchhoff Automotive.
14.30
Group discussion and feedback:
What are the obstacles to direct participation? What can be done?
15.00
Closing Panel
Stavroula Demetriades (Eurofound)
Rosemary Exton (Workplace Innovation Europe)
Gerry McCormack (ICTU)
Tony Murphy (IDEAS)
Damian Thomas (NESC)
Facilitated by Peter Totterdill (Workplace Innovation Europe)
15.45
Close
**To be confirmed
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