TYKES supports research-assisted work organization development based on cooperation between management and staff, which promotes qualitatively sustainable productivity growth in Finnish workplaces. The programme focuses on practical applications, but also promotes research linked with organizational development.

Vision

Finland has a network of expertise for work organization development which creates national competitive edge and which effectively promotes qualitatively sustainable productivity growth. Qualitatively sustainable productivity growth means speeding up productivity growth in a way which supports improvement of the quality of working life and, as a consequence, employees’ ability to stay on at work.

Cooperation network

TYKES is based on the view that the most effective way of generating new innovative solutions for working life is based on close cooperation and interaction between workplaces, R&D units and policy makers. This can be referred to as the triple helix model.

The concept adopted by TYKES of the parties to triple helix cooperation is broad in the sense that, in addition to companies, it comprises public and third sector workplaces. From the perspective of the competitiveness of the country as a whole, the challenge of qualitatively sustainable productivity growth in Finland does not apply solely to the private sector, but also to public service provision; the situation is particularly challenging in the public health care and social welfare services. The concept of the parties to cooperation that has been adopted in this work is also broad in the sense that, in addition to universities and other research units, it also comprises other educational units and consultants, and in that it includes the social partners alongside the public authorities.