This book provides an evidence-based approach to understanding declining levels of employee engagement, offering a set of practices that individuals and organizations can adopt in order to improve productivity and organizational performance. It introduces a model outlining how the experience of...

In this article we present the interdisciplinary, developmental and systemic approach to the study of work and aging that guides research at the Jacobs Center on Lifelong Learning and Institutional Development (JCLL). We introduce basic principles of adult development including its plasticity,...

Matching individuals to jobs is a fundamental problem in any labour market. This paper focuses on job characteristics, such as wages, job quality, and distance from the current place of residence, and the impact of these characteristics on the willingness of employed and unemployed individuals...

The life-span model of selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC) provides a valuable theoretical framework for understanding organizational behaviour related to coping with age-related changes. Although previous research has demonstrated that SOC strategies at work contribute positively to...

The life-span model of selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC) provides a valuable theoretical framework for understanding organizational behaviour related to coping with age-related changes. Although previous research has demonstrated that SOC strategies at work contribute positively to...

In Germany, 20?% of annual retirees withdraw from the labour market early due to work disability. Meanwhile, it has been argued that in modern societies, not only health but also work motivation and self-perceived work ability have growing influences on individual immediate employment decisions....

Ziel der Diplomarbeit ist es, die Rahmenbedingungen und Instrumente zur Mitarbeitermotivation im Überblick und mit speziellem Bezug auf die kleinen mittelständischen Unternehmen darzustellen sowie die besonders in diesem Unternehmenstyp vorhandenen Einflussfaktoren und Potentiale zu ermitteln....

Ziel der Diplomarbeit ist es, die Kompetenzen der Generation „50Plus“ aufzuzeigen. Angesichtes des demographischen Wandels, der Wissenschaftlern zufolge zu einer alternden Gesellschaft und somit zu alternden Belegschaften in den Unternehmen führt, ist es notwendig die Erfahrungen und das...