The „Ageing of Europe‟ phenomenon is related to a higher life expectancy of European inhabitants as well as to decreasing fertility and mortality rates. Those developments affect small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) because the number of older workers in SMEs is increasing too. Our research investigates …

Presentation held in March 2013, as part of the project iAge, at Bildungswerk Niedersächsischen Wirtschaft Oldenburg.

Companies are on the verge to think about retention of older workers (workers above 50) in their company. Thus organisations, more specifically small and middle-sized enterprises (SMEs), are busy with the development of concepts how to make the time between 50 and retirement age of 65 or 67 for employees …

Although critical differences exist between large companies and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), limited empirical research has been done on human resource (HR)-related corporate social responsibility (CSR). In this paper we study aging workforce management (AWM) as a component of CSR. Our …

Gradual retirement as part of (e)conomic inclusion of elderly in communities.Presentation held at the iAge conference Assen, 18th April 2012.

In hoofdstuk 7, het enige Engelstalige hoofdstuk in deze bundel, verkennen Gellert & Van Lieshout of en hoe een op matched establishment comparisongebaseerde methode kan worden gebruikt voor onderzoek naar innovaties inarbeidsorganisatie in de zorg in het algemeen, en beroepsinnovatie (zoals deintroductie …

Verslag van een telefonische enquête onder bedrijven en instellingen met vijf of meer werkzame personen in Groningen, Friesland en Drenthe in 2011, die door ruim duizend werkgevers is ingevuld. Het onderzoek richt zich op de volgende vragen: 1 Welke scholingsinspanningen verrichten noordelijke werkgevers …