Older Workers in a Sustainable Society

Richard Ennals is Professor of Corporate Responsibility and Working Life at Kingston Businesss School, Kingston University (UK), and a Visiting Professor at Agder University (Norway).Robert H. Salomon is a sociologist, senior researcher and former director of the Work Research Institute, Oslo. His research interests are on inclusive work life, work environment and conflict resolution at the work place.

• Contents: Åsmund Lunde: Why Publish a Book on Older Workers? – Richard Ennals/Robert H. Salomon: Editors Introduction – Juhani Ilmarinen: Research Challenges for Older Workers – Beatrice I.J.M. van der Heijden/Annet H. de Lange: Employability Across the Life-Span: Towards new Pathways for Age Research – Elizabeth Brooke: Productivity and the Ageing Body: Occupational Processes and Age Stereotypes – Hélène Mountford/Peter A. Murray: Theoretical Perspectives of Older Workers: Integrating Human Resource Management Practices with Resource-based Strategies – Ines Monteiro/Luciana Tiemi Kuranishi-Ferreira: Taxi Drivers Working in a large City in Brazil: Good News from Practice – Joanne O. Crawford: Health, Safety and Health Promotion; Taking Evidence into Practice – Robert H. Salomon/Anne Inga Hilsen: A Three Phase Perspective on Senior Policies – Reidar J. Mykletun/Trude Furunes: The Ageing Workforce Management Programme in Vattenfall AB Nordic, Sweden – Trude Furunes/Reidar J. Mykletun: Managers’ Decision Latitude for Age Management: Do Managers and Employees Have the same (implicit) Understanding? – Tove Midtsundstad/Hanne Bogen: How the Worker Collective may Moderate Active Ageing Policy and its Outcomes – Susan P. Chen/Reidar J. Mykletun: Post-merger Downsizing: Exploring the ‘Survivor-victim Syndrome’ in an Ageing Workforce and Knowledge-based Economy – Kerstin Nilsson: Attitudes of Managers and Older Employees to each other and the Effects on the Decision to Extend Working Life – Helen Ko: Extending Working Life: Individuals’ Responses, Attitudes and Practices of Employers in Singapore – Graham Smith: Realising Your Potential: Supporting Older Workers through Learning – Dennis Dittric/Victoria Büsch/Frank Micheel: Working beyond Retirement Age in Germany: The Employee’s Perspective – Knut Røed: Economic and Social Incentives for Viable Age Policies – Kristin Reichborn-Kjennerud/Migle Gamperiene/Anne Inga Hilsen:«Make me an Offer I Can’t Refuse» - Do Extra Days off Contribute to Seniors Staying at Work longer? – Philip Taylor: Is Early Retirement History? – Chris Phillipson: Extending Working Life and Re-defining Retirement: Problems and Challenges for Social Policy – Richard Ennals/Anne Inga Hilsen: Older Workers: The Jam in the Sandwich – Rhonda Schlaadt/Alexander Sibbald: Retirement in 2025: Change and Individual Choice: a New Zealand Delphi Study – Per Erik Solem: Ageism and Discrimination of Older Workers in Norway – Richard Ennals/Robert H. Salomon: Concluding Remarks from the Editors.