Our Work Areas
Our main areas of work are:
- New organisational concepts in production, administration and services
- Network research and consulting
- Knowledge-based work and knowledge management
- Vocational training and education, continuous improvement processes
- Occupational health and prevention
- Service work
- Gender research
- Transitions to flexible working time arrangements
- Demographical change
- Industrial relations
In addition to applied and basic research, sfs provides expert advice in a number of areas such as new production concepts and network management, continuing education and training, introduction and evaluation of quality systems.
Users of the institute’s work are:
- European Commission
- German Federal and State Ministries
- Local authorities
- Industrial associations and trade unions
- Foundations and non-profit organisations
- Private and public companies and administrations
International exchange and cooperation
sfs is a partner of several national and international networks of
scientific research.
