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Worker‘s Participation on Handling the Challenge of Demographic Change

Michael Gümbel Anlaufstelle Perspektive Arbeit & Gesundheit (Information Center „Perspective: Work & Health“)

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Background in Germany

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• High and growing amount of early retirements for reasons of

(particularly mental) health

• Remarkable skills shortage in numerous professions
• Change of working conditions = change of work strain
• Lack of information and advice for concerned people
• Gap of implementation of legal obligations to create healthy work
• Employers lack qualification to cope with demografic change

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Anlaufstelle „Perspektive Arbeit & Gesundheit“

(Information Center „Perspective: Work & Health“)

since 15.1.2016

• Funding by the Hamburg state government
• Cooperation with

✓ Employment centres, health + pension insurance and others

• Executing organisation:

✓ Verein „Arbeit & Gesundheit e.V.“

• Task: information and advice for…

✓ Employees on handling work strain and avoiding premature retirement ✓ Employers on creating healthy and sustainable working conditions

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Predominant attitudes

Employees

• „Work hard and earn money“
• Unrealistic perception of financial

situation after retiring

• Risk of over-adoption of responsibility

for health and motivation

• Lack of knowledge of effects of

working conditions

• Lack of self-efficacy

Employers

• „People should be grateful for work“
• Unrealistic perception of labour

market

• Under-estimation of influence of

working conditions on health and motivation

• Lack of competence to create healthy

work for all ages

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Orientation for employers

• Facilitate development perspectives for employees getting older and

young employees

• Avoid antagonisms of „old“ and „young“
• Create working conditions suitable for a life-span of work
• Establish personnel policy with long-term perspective
• Practise knowledge management

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Example project: „Palmengarten Frankfurt“

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WS Managment WS Fore(wo)men WS Employees Tech 2WS Employees Garden Physical work load Amount of work and procedures Communication and leadership Knowledge management Colaboration technical staff/ gardeners Professional perspectives

Information and discussion

Situation review Development and implementation of measures

Information and discussion Information and discussion Information and discussion

Example project: „Palmengarten Frankfurt“

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WS Managment WS Fore(wo)men WS Employees Tech 2WS Employees Garden Physical work load Amount of work and procedures Communication and leadership Knowledge management Colaboration technical staff/ gardeners Professional perspectives

Information and discussion

Situation review Development and implementation of measures

Information and discussion Information and discussion Information and discussion

Physical work load

• Compilation of tasks with high strain – small chance to reach the

usual age of retirement at work

• Risk assesment and finding of measures on one example: Work with

hoses for watering the plants

• Intense discussion and identification of numerous measures – short-term and

long-term

• Making of a plan to deal with all other high-strain tasks in a similar

way

• Meetings at work places to apply measures and change the culture of

work

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Professional perspectives

• Identification of tasks that do not appear to be executable until usual

retirement age

• Discuss possible changes in procedures and allocation of tasks
• Let employees define tasks they could performe to higher age – and

would like to perform

• Develope new task layouts inside the organisation (Palmengarten)

and in the whole urban administration

• Start early with orientation, work place visits and formation
• Establish professional development along working biography

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