Steen Erik Navrbjerg

CV

Education
1999: PhD in Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.
1993: MA in Cultural Sociology, University of Copenhagen.

Employment
2004-: Associate Professor, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.
1999-2003: Assistant Professor, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.
1993-99: Research Assistant, FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen.

Other
2006-2008: Member of the board of Department of Sociology.
2003-2007: Member of the editorial board of Tidsskrift for Arbejdsliv.
1999-2003: Member of the board of Center for Studier af Arbejdsliv.

Short presentation

Steen E. Navrbjerg is member of FAOS (Employment Relations Research Centre) at department of Sociology and part of the research group Knowledge, Organisation and Politics.

Current research:



- The relations between employers and employees at workplace level, including longitudinal studies of employee representatives worklife and role as mediator at the work place (TR-survey 1998 and TR-survey 2010). Both projects employed responses from 8,000 LO shop stewards to analyze shop stewards working conditions and cooperation at work place level. They 2010 survey included responses from some 1,600 employers and as well as 1,475 rank and file colleagues and 225 local unions. 

- The significance of 'yellow'/alternative unions and disorganized labour for trade union forces, particularly at work place level.

- A survey of employers' organizations in Denmark, including their various functions in relation to the Danish labor market model.

- Analysis of multinationals companies' employment practices and their impact on national labor market models, including the internatiolnal research network INTREPID (Employment Practices of Multinationals in Organizational Context - in cooperation with research groups from 8 countries).

- Analysis of changes in valuechains and the consequinces of the industrial relations systems in Denmark and abroad.

Introductory remarks on publicationslist

You can read all or part of the publications from the list below at www.faos.dk/english/publications

Primary fields of research

Management-employee cooperation and negotiation - private and public sector; the impact of multinational corporations on negotiation and cooperation; shop stewards and health & safety representatives; local unions; employers' organisations; value chains and industrial relations models.