scholarly journals Organisational Capability for Delayed Retirement

2022 ◽  
pp. 221-232
Author(s):  
Ewa Wikström ◽  
Karin Allard ◽  
Rebecka Arman ◽  
Roy Liff ◽  
Daniel Seldén ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Opportunity Structure ◽  
Workplace Conditions ◽  
Retirement System ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Systematic Knowledge

AbstractThroughout the industrialised world, societies are ageing. These demographic changes have created a political and societal focus on an extended working life. Unfortunately, there is a lack of systematic knowledge about how such changes can be successfully implemented within organisations. In this chapter, we discuss this lacuna and specifically focus on organisational capability. We highlight workplace conditions and practices that may inhibit or promote the retention of workers beyond the previous norm for retirement.The novelty of an organisational capability approach is that it highlights workplace conditions that enable older people to use their abilities to perform acts of value and to achieve a better quality of life and greater participation in society. Workplace resources, capabilities and functions form a dynamic pattern. Factors that influence the work abilities of older workers are related in complex interactions and not merely in the format of simple cause and effect.When looking at retirement from the perspective of older workers, we have focused on aspects such as the individual’s ability to control the retirement process. Central to Sen’s idea is that individuals have different conversion factors, which means that, even though two individuals may have access to the same resources, they do not necessarily have the capability to enjoy the same functions. For example, the probability that an older person will remain employed will partially depend on his or her health, human capital and type of job. But two seemingly similar individuals can nevertheless have very different chances of remaining employed because their employer has implemented very different age management policies, or simply because they have different attitudes towards older workers. Since organisational capability makes it possible to focus on the interaction between the individual’s resources and preferences and the opportunity structure existing at the workplace (meso level) and embodied in the retirement system (macro level), much of the discussion and many of the policies and practices concerning older people can be related to the concept of capabilities.

How Different is the Older Labour Market? Attitudes to Work and Retirement among Older People in Britain

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen McNair
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
National Surveys ◽  
The Uk

Governments are seeking strategies to extend working life, but with limited evidence on the attitudes to work, and motivation of workers over 50. This paper reports the findings of two national surveys which aimed to increase understanding of the attitudes to work of older people in the UK. They found that older people generally view work very positively, but that the forces which divide the labour market as a whole have an increasingly polarising effect as people grow older. The paper suggests that successful implementation of ‘extending working life’ policies will depend on a better understanding of the quality of work, of the diversity of older workers, and of the role of training.

scholarly journals Working Late: strategies to enhance productive and healthy environments for an older workforce

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Haslam ◽  
Myanna Duncan ◽  
Aadil Kazi ◽  
Ricardo Twumasi ◽  
Stacy Clemes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Work Environment ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
The Life Course

This chapter discusses the Working Late research project, which investigated the practice and policy issues associated with later life working. This multidisciplinary research project explored later life working across three main themes: employment context, occupational health context and the work environment. The Working Late research was underpinned by active engagement with agencies, employers and older workers to guide the research process and deliver effective and wide ranging dissemination of the findings. The project developed and evaluated new interventions, resources and design solutions to promote health and quality of working life across the life course.

scholarly journals Quality of Working Life among 50+ Employees across the EU: A Double Jeopardy for Croatian Older Workers

2019 ◽  
pp. 69-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zvonimir Galić ◽  
◽  
Maja Parmač Kovačić ◽  
Maja Vehovec Vehovec ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Workers ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Double Jeopardy ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
The Eu

Longer working lives – what do they mean in practice – a case of the Baltic countries

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolanta Aidukaite ◽  
Inga Blaziene
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Older People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Older Employees ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
The Baltic

PurposeThe article seeks to contribute to a better understanding of older people's situation in the labour market in three Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Three Nordic countries are taken as a reference point to compare the countries in order to better understand the situation from a comparative point of view. The article asks the questions: Does a longer working life for older people contribute to their better economic situation? How satisfied are they with a longer working life and their working conditions? Do they experience any discrimination in the labour market because of their age?Design/methodology/approachIn order to understand the situation of older people in the labour market, the authors employ welfare state models and the Active Ageing Index. The welfare state models help us to understand the context in which the working life of older people is taking place. The Active Ageing Index helps to gain a better understanding of the employment domain of active ageing. The analysis is based on several Europe-wide data sources: statistics on earnings from Eurostat database, information on income, job prospects, occupational safety and health, training, working life perspectives from the European Working Conditions Survey as well as a special survey, conducted by the authors, of Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian residents aged 50 years and older.FindingsAnalysis conducted reveals that in the Baltic countries older employees, although actively participating in the labour market, face unfavourable material, physical and psychological situation in the labour market more frequently than their younger colleagues. The findings show that the most important factors influencing older employees' decision to stay longer in the labour market in the Baltic countries are linked mostly to welfare state-related issues, i.e. financial benefits, healthcare, possibility to reconcile work and family obligations. These welfare state-related issues are even more important for those who are going to stay longer in the labour market after reaching the retirement age.Originality/valueThis article contributes to a better understanding of older (50+) people's situation in the labour market. It suggests that, while the increasing employment of older people increases the Active Ageing Index and is generally viewed positively, in some countries with less developed welfare states high employment rates of older employees, although providing them with an additional means of livelihood, do not ensure a higher quality of life and, on the contrary, act as a factor reducing the quality of work and, at the same time, the quality of life.

scholarly journals Quality of working life: conceptions in Brazilian federal universities

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Livia de Oliveira BORGES ◽  
Sabrina Cavalcanti BARROS ◽  
Nina Schumacher MAGALHÃES
Keyword(s):  
Public Information ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Levels Of Analysis ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Quality Of Working Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Web

Abstract Continuous changes in Brazilian federal universities have affected the lives of workers in these institutions. Considering that reflections on the quality of working life of their civil servants can contribute to rethinking work r and/or people management policies, we aim to identify the quality of working life conceptions and practices of federal universities according to the public information documents made available on the Web pages by the federal universities. We understand quality of working life by considering the different levels of analysis (micro, meso and macro) that intersect with it. We identify and analyze the quality of working life conceptions available on the Web pages of 60 institutions. From the content analysis, we found four conceptions. The most frequent ones were the assistentialist (30.0%) and systemic and preventive (33.3%) conceptions. Limitations and suggestions for further studies were indicated.

scholarly journals Employment and Happiness of the Older People in Romania and the Visegrád Countries: Analysis of the European Quality of Life Surveys

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-97
Author(s):  
Éva Berde ◽  
László Tőkés
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Older People ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Logit Models ◽  
Ceteris Paribus ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Visegrád Countries

Abstract We used the last three waves of the European Quality of Life Surveys to analyze the happiness of older workers in Romania and the Visegrád countries. Applying ordinary least squares and ordered logit models we showed that being employed makes people happier ceteris paribus than being unemployed. This effect is the same for younger and older persons in the V4 countries, but there is an extra positive effect for older workers in Romania.

scholarly journals Wydłużenie aktywności zawodowej czy przejście na emeryturę? Studium mikroekonomiczne

2014 ◽  
pp. 7-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justyna Wiktorowicz
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Equal Opportunities ◽  
Individual Decisions

The ageing of societies has recently become one the most important phenomena shaping social policy in Poland and other developed countries. At the same time, it is becoming increasingly clear that ageing should not be perceived only in terms of threats. Silver economy, age management, and lifelong learning are the notions that become acknowledged by various labour market and social policy stakeholders. The rationale behind these ideas is to make the best use of the potential of people around the retirement, in line with the life cycle concept, but also of new social needs that arise with an increasing proportion of people aged 50+ in the society, and with considerably improving quality of their lives. The discussion presented in the article is limited to problems in extending working life of Poles. The aim of this paper is analysis of the factors influencing the extension of the working life in Poland, from an individual perspective, i.e. by looking at the reasons of individual decisions of people close to the retirement age. The article is both theoretical and empirical in nature, presenting a review of studies including the support for the economic activity of “older” workers, coupled with the outcomes of a statistical analysis carried out in the project „Equal opportunities in the labour market for people aged 50+”.

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OF ELDERLY PEOPLE

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
pp. 88-99
Author(s):  
Vitalii MORTIKOV
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Pension System ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Retirement Age ◽  
Elderly Workers ◽  
Regional Labor ◽  
Working Age

The economic activity of the elderly is becoming increasingly important with the aging of the population and the extension of the education of young people. Older people have experience, knowledge, which is an important component of human capital of modern organizations and countries in general. Meanwhile, in Ukraine, according to statistics, the economic activity of the elderly has decreased significantly during the 2008-2018 period. Most elderly workers are among the specialists and representatives of the simplest professions. Data on the registered statistics of economic activity of elderly in the regions of Ukraine are weakly correlated with the situation on regional labor markets. This is due, in particular, to the significant shadow component of employment in this age group. There are both positive and negative aspects of economic activity of older people. Despite the benefits of using the labor of older people, they compete for jobs with people of active working age, their involvement is more expensive for employers. With this in mind, regulating the use of human resources of older workers is necessary to maintain the labor balance in the country as a whole, as well as in regions and individual organizations. The article determines which decisions of the elderly the state can influence: retirement earlier than the normal retirement period; exit after reaching this age; continuation of economic activity outside the retirement age, i.e later retirement. The tools of influencing the economic activity of the elderly are the pension system, the creation of jobs taking into account the interests of older workers, improving the quality of their work, combating age discrimination. It is shown that changes in the pension system of Ukraine in 2017 contribute to the intensification of economic activity of persons of pre-retirement and retirement age.

scholarly journals Understanding the Perspectives and Experiences of Employed Older People on Active Ageing in Their Later Working Life (Biographical Narrative Approach)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 6916
Author(s):  
Yong-Lim You ◽  
Hyun-Suk Lee
Keyword(s):  
Older People ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Older Workers ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Active Ageing ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Social Prejudice

This thesis aims to understand the perspectives and experiences of older people regarding the concept of active ageing in their later working life with biographical narratives. This research adopted a biographical narrative interview for data collection. A total of 15 employed older people were interviewed by the researcher. The collected data were analysed using the biographical narrative analysis of Schütze (1983). The research findings are the following: in the first theme, the driving force to enable older people to choose active ageing in the workplace was their confidence in their work ability to include a challenging attitude at work. In the second theme, another driving force to enable older people to participate in economic activity that was considered was the individual workability of active older workers, including health rather than their chronological ageing in the labour market. However, in the third theme, research participants believed that the barrier of active ageing is a negative social prejudice on the working ability of older people. From this point of view, the research participants suggested that negative social prejudice for older workers should be overcome by active ageing experiences in age-friendly working environments as the fourth theme.

The Quality of Life of Older People With a Disability in Ireland

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Murphy ◽  
Eamon O'Shea ◽  
Adeline Cooney ◽  
Dympna Casey
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Older People
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