Becoming Old at Work

Problems and difficulties of older employees in conducting their
occupational activity and ideas about a smooth transition into
retirement.

Topics: Occupation career; company ties; characterization of job and
job burdens; time worked each week; shift work; satisfaction with shift
work; number of colleagues in immediate vicinity of workplace;
relations with younger colleagues or superiors; self-assessment of
capability in comparison with others and especially with younger
colleagues (scale); reasons for difficulties with superior; wage and
salary form; satisfaction with income; proportion of bonuses in monthly
gross income; preferred criteria for determining pay of employees;
concerns for one´s own occupational future; attitude to a union
representative for older colleagues; impact of organizational or
technical changes at work; assumed alternatives in the company with
necessary change of job; attitude to technical progress;
characteristics of an ideal job; utilization of education leave and
interest in further education measures; leisure activities and leisure
contacts; ideas about retirement and the transition between work life
and retirement; concerns about life in retirement; preferred manner of
reduction in working hours for older employees; interest in an early
retirement or continuing to work after reaching the age limit;
preferred age limit; participation in medical check-ups; assessment of
personal condition of health and number of illness days in the last
year; illnesses and disabilities.

Demography: sex; marital status; income; grand-children; rent costs;
type of residence; size of place of residence; regional mobility;
frequency of unemployment; participation in recuperation programs and
attitude to company doctor; decision behavior; attitude to the trade
unions and memberships.