Mgr. Ing. Martin Štěpánek, M.A., Ph.D.
Martin Štěpánek leads projects focused on measuring quality of working life in the Czech Republic. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics and Finance at the Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University, and a Master’s degree in Economics at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He has extensive international experience, having worked in the United Kingdom at the research organization RAND Europe and later at the insurance company Vitality, where he directed a research program on human behaviour and health. For several years, he managed the Britain’s Healthiest Workplace project, the largest employee survey of its kind in the UK. He has been employed at RILSA since 2020, primarily focusing on research into human behaviour in the workplace.
- PFEFFER, Jeffery, Sara SINGER & Martin ŠTĚPÁNEK, 2022. Volunteering improves employee health and organizational outcomes through bonding with coworkers and enhanced identification with employers. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 64(5), 370–376.
- HAFNER, Marco, Erez YERUSHALMI, Martin ŠTĚPÁNEK, William PHILLIPS, Jack POLLARD, Advait DESHPANDE, Michael WHITMORE, Francois MILLARD, Shaun SUBEL & Christian Van STOLK, 2020. Estimating the global economic benefits of physically active populations over 30 years (2020–2050). British Journal of Sports Medicine, 54(24), 1482–1487.
- ŠTĚPÁNEK, Martin, Kaveh JAHANSHAHI & Francois MILLARD, 2019. Individual, workplace, and combined effects modeling of employee productivity loss. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 61(6), 469–478.
- GENDRONNEAU, Cloé, Arkadiusz WIŚNIOWSKI, Dilek YILDIZ, Emilio ZAGHENI, Lee FIORIO, Yuan HSIAO, Martin ŠTĚPÁNEK, Ingmar WEBER, Guy ABEL & Stijn HOORENS, 2019. Measuring labour mobility and migration using big data: Exploring the potential of social-media data for measuring EU mobility flows and stocks of EU movers. Publications Office of the European Union.
- HAFNER, Marco, Martin ŠTĚPÁNEK, Jirka TAYLOR, Wendy M. TROXEL & Christian Van STOLK, 2017. Why sleep matters – the economic costs of insufficient sleep: a cross-country comparative analysis. Rand Health Quarterly, 6(4), 11.