Sustainable Working Lives: Managing Work Transitions and Health throughout the Life Course

✍ Scribed by Jukka Vuori, Roland Blonk, Richard H. Price (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 306
• Series: Aligning Perspectives on Health, Safety and Well-Being
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The purpose of this volume is to describe the impact of the increased demand for flexibility on employees and its impact on their individual work life trajectories and health. The volume offers concrete examples of interventions aimed to find innovative ways of sustainable work careers for today's workers. We focus on the school to work transition, job insecurity, job loss and re-employment and retirement. The interventions described offer strategies for implementing support in employment contracts, increasing preparedness of individual employees with public education programs or developing work arrangements and support systems in work organizations.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Changing Life Trajectories, Employment Challenges and Worker Health in Global Perspective....Pages 3-16
Informal Employment and Vulnerability in Less Developed Markets....Pages 17-33
The Economy of Sustainable Careers During the Work Life Course: A Case from Finland....Pages 35-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
School Engagement and Burnout Among Students: Preparing for Work Life....Pages 51-64
Practice Makes Perfect? Antecedents and Consequences of an Adaptive School-to-Work Transition....Pages 65-86
Socialization into Organizations and Balancing Work and Family....Pages 87-105
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Job Insecurity, Health and Well-Being....Pages 109-128
Principles for Effective Coping in Work-Related Uncertain Situations....Pages 129-143
Flexicurity, Job Insecurity, and Well-Being in European Labor Markets....Pages 145-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Promoting Reemployment and Mental Health Among the Unemployed....Pages 171-186
The Fragility of Employability: A Dynamic Perspective and Examples from the Netherlands....Pages 187-214
Poor Health as Cause and Consequence of Prolonged Unemployment: Mechanisms, Interventions, and Policy Recommendations....Pages 215-227
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
Enhancing Career Management Preparedness and Mental Health....Pages 231-247
Promoting Older Workers’ Job Retention and Health by Working Hour Patterns....Pages 249-268
Prolonged Working Years: Consequences and Directions for Interventions....Pages 269-288
Front Matter....Pages 289-289
Conclusions for Policy, Practice and Research....Pages 291-300
Back Matter....Pages 301-304

✦ Subjects

Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology; Human Resource Management; Health Psychology; Health Economics