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Ageing organisations and the extension of working lives
— a case study approach | | Author(s) | Wieteke Conen, Kene Henkens, Joop Schippers |
| Journal title | Journal of Social Policy, vol 43, no 4, October 2014 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, October 2014 |
| Pages | pp 773-792 |
| Source | journals.cambridge.org/JSP |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Postponement [retirement] ; Employees ; Retirement policy ; Case studies ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | This paper analyses case studies conducted with Dutch organisations, to examine how economic climate and policy changes at national level have affected organisational practices aimed at the extension of working lives of older workers in the last decade. The findings show that personnel policies are typically short-term and vary in their existence and content, congruous to the economic climate. Policy changes in retirement arrangements, and the debate about raising the official retirement age, have made both employees and employers realise that the extension of working lives has become an unavoidable fact, although both parties still seem intrinsically opposed to it. In the last decade, changes to safety regulations and the increase in costs for employers if employees drop out of work due to ill health have led to an increasing focus on health-related measures in professions that involve intense physical work over. While national level policy changes in areas such as health and safety do percolate down and begin to affect organisational practice, it is at the organisational level that such changes still need to be worked through. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-151522226 A |
| Classmark | GC: G5H: WK: G5: 69P: 76H |
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