Project Objectives

Project QUALITY has eight objectives defined to operationalise the primary aims of the project.

1. To elaborate theoretically, methodologically and empirically the concept
   of quality of life; to analyse quality of life for men and women in the
   eight partner countries based on existing internationally-comparative
   datasets, e.g. European Quality of Life Survey; The World Database of
   Happiness.
2. To gain insight into the quality of life of citizens in the partner
   countries within the context of their working situation, by setting up
   new quantitative research projects in all participating countries.
3. To analyse the institutional context of each participating country,
   based on national expert meetings and relevant policy documents, by
   mapping out which current socio-economic trends are expected to have an
   impact on the quality of work of men and women and on their work-life
   balance.
4. To gain insight in what healthy and socially sustainable
   organisations are, by examining the perspectives of managers and other
   employees in one organisation in each country, and by exploring the
   links between perceptions of healthy organisations and employee well
   being and quality of life.
5. To develop an instrument on the social quality of European
   workplaces by selecting the relevnt items for social quality based on
   the overall analyses of data on quality of life, as mentioned under objective 1 and objective 2.
6. To gain insight into relevant future trends and their expected
   implications for the quality of life of male and female citizens in the
   eight partner countries, by developing scenario analyses that will be
   discussed in high-level expert groups in each of the participating
   countries.
7. To gain insight into the role of gender in relation to quality of
   life and work and the impact public and organisational policies have on
   this relation, by specifying the perspective of gender in each of the
   parts of the QUALITY project; all analyses will be broken down by
   gender.
8. Dissemination of the insights of the project. This final objective
   is related to all four aims and will be operationalised in all specific
   aims as descripted in the project objectives; a project website will be
   developed; the projected audiences include the European Union, national
   governments, policy-makers, employers, unions, the scientific community
   and the general public.