TY - JOUR
T1 - Workplace accommodation for older teachers in Japan and Germany
T2 - The role of the institutional context in supporting late career options for teachers with ill health
AU - Schröder, Heike
AU - Higo, Masa
AU - Flynn, Matt
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Rainer Hampp Verlag.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Owing to the ageing of their respective populations, policy-makers in Japan and Germany are challenged to extend the working life of individual employees. However, conditions of physical and mental ill health tend to increase with old age, leading to disabilities that affect whether and how individuals can remain active in the labour market. Workplace accommodation is a means to enable disabled individuals to remain productively employed. Drawing on qualitative interview data, this discussion explores how institutions such as School Authorities in Japan and Germany use workplace accommodation to support teachers with physical and mental disabilities. Teachers are a white-collar profession strongly affected by ill health, especially burnout. The discussion furthermore explores how such workplace accommodation measures influence older teachers' career expectations and career outcomes, including thoughts about (early) retirement. It finds that even though the institutional contexts in Japan and Germany are rather similar, career options and expectations vary, though with similar (negative) outcomes for national strategies towards the extension of working lives.
AB - Owing to the ageing of their respective populations, policy-makers in Japan and Germany are challenged to extend the working life of individual employees. However, conditions of physical and mental ill health tend to increase with old age, leading to disabilities that affect whether and how individuals can remain active in the labour market. Workplace accommodation is a means to enable disabled individuals to remain productively employed. Drawing on qualitative interview data, this discussion explores how institutions such as School Authorities in Japan and Germany use workplace accommodation to support teachers with physical and mental disabilities. Teachers are a white-collar profession strongly affected by ill health, especially burnout. The discussion furthermore explores how such workplace accommodation measures influence older teachers' career expectations and career outcomes, including thoughts about (early) retirement. It finds that even though the institutional contexts in Japan and Germany are rather similar, career options and expectations vary, though with similar (negative) outcomes for national strategies towards the extension of working lives.
KW - Disability
KW - Germany
KW - Japan
KW - Professional labour markets
KW - Workplace accommodation
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U2 - 10.5771/0935-9915-2016-1-2-63
DO - 10.5771/0935-9915-2016-1-2-63
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85044618783
SN - 0935-9915
VL - 27
SP - 63
EP - 81
JO - Management Revue
JF - Management Revue
IS - 1-2
ER -