Professional & Managerial Staff in Europe
The diversity of professional identities, together with the changes of the past decades have impacted upon Professional and Managerial staff (P&MS), whether they are skilled professionals or managers, working in small private firms, in large manufacturing groups or in the public sector
In this page you will find an explanation, as well as the internationally recognised definition, of Professional and Managerial Staffs (P&MS). As a matter of fact EUROCADRES, the council of European P&MS, has published some statistics about the rising number of this category in working environments, which you will find listed in this section of the site, together with other useful information on European P&MS:
Who are European P&MS?
The diversity of professional identities, together with the changes of the past decades have impacted upon Professional and Managerial staff (P&MS), whether they are skilled professionals or managers, working in small private firms, in large manufacturing groups or in the public sector
Researchers
EUROCADRES's activities concerning researchers: Our Network, Council resolution on: "The profession and the career of researchers", EUROCADRES proposals for European researchers...
P&MS and Trade Unions: Organisation and Recruitment
One of the major challenges facing European trade unions is the recruitment and organisation of professional and managerial staff. Over the past decades, this occupational group has become more and more important in the European economies. If Europe can fulfil its ambition to be the world's most competitive knowledge-based economy, the labour market importance of this group of employees will only grow. Trade unions in Europe have already made serious efforts to meet the membership challenges of P&MS. It is however generally acknowledged that more needs to be done to ensure that a stronger trade union participation of P&MS is to be built
