Dissertation_Paula Aleksandrowicz_12 ... - Jacobs University
Dissertation_Paula Aleksandrowicz_12 ... - Jacobs University
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2) the supply-side orientated internalisation strategy based on the ´work for everybody<br />
principle´, resulting in an integration of older workers. Firms following that strategy<br />
solve personnel adjustment problems on the internal labour market, by adjusting the<br />
qualificatory and health potential of the current workforce and securing workplaces.<br />
According to Naschold et al. (1994a), Germany follows a marked externalisation<br />
strategy where older workers are treated as a flexibilisation resource homogeneously across<br />
industrial sectors and production regimes. Firms respond in their policies to incentives set<br />
by state actors and social partners. Policies differ between small and large companies, the<br />
latter more frequently resorting to regular dismissals and high labour turnover (ibid: 466).<br />
Although this study is ten years old, only little has changed in German companies since then<br />
(comp. Brussig 2005: 14).<br />
The authors propose the following division of personnel policies by their<br />
externalising/internalising character (Table 14):<br />
Table 14: Firms´ basic employment/retirement strategies<br />
internalisation<br />
part-time jobs<br />
occupational pension<br />
partial pension<br />
redeployment within enterprise<br />
reemployment<br />
health and safety measures<br />
sheltered jobs<br />
anti-discrimination legislation<br />
further training/retraining<br />
career development<br />
age-ing friendly workplaces<br />
utilisation of active labour market measures<br />
short-time work as alternative to dismissals<br />
externalisation<br />
age-selective redundancies (possibly accompanied by social plans)<br />
active disincentives to older workers<br />
financial incentive programme<br />
no attempts made to humanise working conditions<br />
early retirement after a given number of insurance years<br />
retirement provisions linked to overall state or demand for labour<br />
retirement linked to health and performance level<br />
not filling vacancies after labour turnover<br />
disability pensions in case of health impairments<br />
Source: Naschold et al. (1994a: 473), Rosenow/Naschold (1994: 48); own modifications and additions.<br />
A sustainable personnel policy requires the inclusion of both alleviating measures for<br />
older workers with already limited work capabilities, and of preventive measures for<br />
workers of all ages (Köchling/Deimel 2006: 115ff), but that prescription is seldom followed<br />
in practice. The German IAB Establishment Panel found out that externalising measures<br />
like the early retirement scheme were offered most often by the surveyed firms (and more<br />
frequently by large firms with 500 and more workers), while internalising measures like<br />
further vocational training and age-mixed teams existed in less than the half of firms, and<br />
measures directed at older workers only (special equipment of workplaces, lower<br />
performance requirements) were offered by a very small faction (Bellmann et al. 2007: 4).<br />
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