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.