Age-Differentiated Work Systems

Christopher M. Schlick is Professor of Engineering at RWTH Aachen University and head of the Institute of Industrial Engineering and Ergonomics. He is a member of the management board of the FGAN Research Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics (FKIE). His research interests include modeling and simulation of work and business systems as well as the ergonomic design of human‐machine interfaces. Ekkehart Frieling was Professor and head of the Institute of Industrial Science and Ergonomics at the University of Kassel from 1982 to 2007. He was vice president of the University of Kassel and president of “Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft e.V.”. Since 2008 he is working as freelancer for Volkswagen (VW) ‐ Baunatal. His research interests are in the field of work design, work analysis and competence development as well as work design conducive to age in the automotive industry.Dr. Jürgen Wegge is full professor of Work and Organisational Psychology at the TU Dresden. He is the president of the German Work‐, Organizational‐ and Business Psychologist organized in the German Psychological Society (DGPs) and a fellow of AOM, SIOP, IAAP, EAWOP, and several other psychological associations. His research interests are in the field of work motivation, leadership, occupational health and excellence in organizations.

• From the contents: Age-Differentiated Work Systems Enhance Productivity and Retention of Old Employees.- Development and Evaluation of Working-time Models for the Ageing Workforce. Lessons Learned from the KRONOS Research Project.- Effects of an Ageing Workforce on the Performance of Assembly Systems.- Age Diversity and Team Effectiveness.- Age Differences in Motivation and Stress at Work.- Age-related Differences in the Emotion Regulation of Teachers in the Classroom.-Successful Aging Strategies in Nursing: The Example of Selective Optimization with Compensation.- Assembly Tasks in the Automotive Industry –a Challenge for Older Employees.- Capability Related Stress Analysis to Support Design of Work Systems.- Field Study of Age-critical Assembly Processes in the Automotive Industry.- Age-related Differences in Critical Driving Situations: The Influence of Dual-Task Situations, S-R Compatibility and Driving Expertise.- Age-related Changes of Neural Control Processes and their Significance for Driving Performance.- Integrating Training, Instruction and Design into Universal User Interfaces.

"The research findings presented in this volume make it a reference book which presents the current state of research in this field, examining the design of work systems for elderly workers both thoroughly and with refinement. It offers a wide and varied picture, extending the research to multiple sectors of activity and worker collectives." (Noelia Somarriba Arechavala, Applied Research in Quality of Life, Vol. 10, 2015)