TY - JOUR A1 - Schermuly, Carsten C. A1 - Büsch, Victoria A1 - Graßmann, Carolin T1 - Psychological empowerment, psychological and physical strain and the desired retirement age JF - Personnel Review N2 - This paper shows that psychological and physical strain mediates the relationship between psychological empowerment and the desired retirement age (DRA), and German employees' age, net income and organizational size is found to significantly affect the DRA. KW - Psychological empowerment KW - Ageing workforce KW - Desired retirement age KW - Pre-retirement job factors KW - Psychological strain Y1 - 2017 N1 - Volltext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Full text due to copyright not available. VL - 46 IS - 5 SP - 950 EP - 969 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Büsch, Victoria A1 - Brusch, Michael A1 - Ante, Arta T1 - Extending working life in Germany: the employees' perspective N2 - Keine Angabe No details KW - Working Life KW - Late Workers Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-9206 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Büsch, Victoria A1 - Dittrich, Dennis A. V. A1 - Königstein, Manfred T1 - Hiring Chances are Bad for Older Workers JF - Management Online Review N2 - It is often claimed that work opportunities decline with age, that hiring chances of older persons are poor. We investigate this by collecting questionnaire responses from personnel managers of German manufacturing firms, eliciting a hypothetical hiring decision based on three fictitious candidates. We rely on an age-neutral job and a small age-gap of 14 years between the youngest and the oldest candidate. The quasi-experimental design of the questionnaire allows us to control for possible productivity differences and other economic explanations for declining hiring chances. The data show a 60 percentage point difference in hiring probabilities between the youngest and oldest candidate. KW - Discrimination KW - Hiring Decision KW - Labor Market Y1 - 2009 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228200054_Bad_Hiring_Chances_for_Older_Workers ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Büsch, Victoria A1 - Dahl, Svenn-Aage A1 - Dittrich, Dennis T1 - An Empirical Study of Age Discrimination in Norway and Germany JF - Applied Economics N2 - Using a questionnaire and a sample of students and personnel managers we establish the existence of age discrimination in the hiring process in Germany and Norway. As expected, age discrimination is more prominent in Germany where the hiring probability of equally qualified applicants is reduced by about 22 percentage points due to an age differential of 14 years as opposed to only 12 percentage points in Norway. Within both countries the tendency to discriminate does not differ between students and personnel managers and does not depend on the age of the decision maker. KW - Hiring Decisions KW - Older Workers KW - Demographic Change Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-8723 VL - 41 IS - 5 SP - 633 EP - 651 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schermuly, Carsten C. A1 - Deller, Jürgen A1 - Büsch, Victoria T1 - A research note on age discrimination and the desire to retire: the mediating effect of psychological empowerment JF - Research on Aging N2 - Age discrimination is a common problem in organizations. In our pilot study, we want to explore the processes how the desired retirement age is influenced by age discrimination and see psychological empowerment as an important mediator for the relationship between these variables. Data stem from an online questionnaire completed by 130 employees from different organizations in Germany (all 50 years or older). Our results show that age discrimination is an antecedent for the desired retirement age. It has a direct as well as an indirect (via psychological empowerment) effect on the desired retirement age. KW - Diversity KW - Retirement KW - Early Retirement KW - Employment Y1 - 2014 N1 - Online: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272075130_A_Research_Note_on_Age_Discrimination_and_the_Desire_to_Retire_The_Mediating_Effect_of_Psychological_Empowerment VL - 36 IS - 3 SP - 382 EP - 393 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schermuly, Carsten C. A1 - Büsch, Victoria A1 - Brusch, Michael A1 - Deller, Jürgen T1 - Expectation, motivation and willingness to prolong working life of German workers T2 - 16th QMOD-ICQSS Proceedings Quality Management and Organizational Development Conference, Maribor N2 - Keine Angabe - No details KW - Germany KW - Silver Workers KW - Demographic Change Y1 - 2013 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-4201 SP - 253 EP - 264 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Brusch, Michael A1 - Büsch, Victoria A1 - Ante, Arta T1 - Typology of Workers at the End of Their Career in Germany T2 - 13th International Conference on Combined Actions and Combined Effects of Environmental Factors, Tampere (Finnland) N2 - Keine Angabe No details KW - Older Worker KW - Germany Y1 - 2011 N1 - Vollext aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht verfügbar. Fulltext due to copyright not available. ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Brusch, Michael A1 - Büsch, Victoria T1 - The Role of Job related Factors to Prolong Working Life: An Analysis for the German Labour Market T2 - Proceedings of the 15th QMOD Conference on Quality and Service Sciences N2 - Labour markets and companies in some developed countries have to consider general demographic changes. While the group of elderly workers grows, their sustainment will become more important in future (e.g. Höhn et al. 2008; Dittrich et al. 2011). Especially in combination with an ageing population and a later entrance into the labour market a future shortfall of active workers can be assumed. Germany – as one example of such countries – has only a limited number of options that policy makers and companies can use in the coming decades. One of these is the increased use of the three growing segments in the population: older people, immigrants and an increased participation of women in the labour market. This study focuses the first segment as a potential work force. When promoting that a higher employment rate of older workers can be considered as serious alternative for dealing with the current shortfall of skilled labour force, the motivation of these workers has to be investigated. The works of Alavinia et al. (2007) and Wang, Shultz (2010), which discuss factors influencing the decision to prolong the working age, can be used as starting point. In this context, we analyse the German labour market as an example for a developed country. For the analysis, we use a representative data set of the Federal Institute for Population Research of Germany from published in2008. Here, 1,500 employees (blue collar workers, white collar workers, civil servants) aged between 55 and 64 years were asked about their work situation, motivation and related factors (e.g. further education, job rewards; Büsch et al. 2010). During the data analysis we identify groups of elderly workers using cluster analysis (e.g. Cormack 1971) to develop recommendations for companies. By using existing work motivation and related findings, as well as a representative empirical data set, our study reveals a possibility to identify, classify, and enhance the motivation of workers at the end of their career. This is necessary to keep the quality of goods and service production at an appropriate level. The value of the paper comes from the large number of respondents of the data set and the high relevance of the German situation for other developed countries. At the end, powerful recommendations for companies how to involve and motivate elderly workers for longer periods of employment can be derived. KW - Elderly Workers KW - Further Education KW - Workability KW - Work Motivation Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0298-opus4-2690 SP - 272 EP - 281 ER -