This paper deals with the study of older workers' job satisfaction as a factor that, combined with other personal and job-related factors, can significantly influence the decision to postpone retirement when this decision is in the hands of an individual. Starting from the fact that the employment rate of older workers in Slovenia in 2011 was the lowest in the EU, the article aims to establish the level of older workers' job satisfaction in Slovenia compared to the EU, analyse its dimensions, its specifics related to age, gender, sector of economic activities and type of profession, as well as ascertain what determines it the most. A statistical analysis of the results of the Fifth European Working Conditions Survey of 2010 reveals that Slovenia ranks 15 th among the EU member states in terms of older workers' job satisfaction, thus lagging behind the EU average. While Slovenian older workers, the same as their European counterparts, are most satisfied with doing useful work and the least with their prospects for career advancement, a comparison with other EU member states shows that they are relatively dissatisfied with working conditions, salary and adequacy of the motivation to give one's best performance, and relatively satisfied with doing useful work and with their colleagues. The analysis also shows that the level of older workers' job satisfaction in Slovenia is determined most by their satisfaction with the adequacy of the motivation to give one's best performance.Key words: older workers, job satisfaction, employment, labour market participation, EU, Slovenia. INTRODUCTIONCountries have responded to the demographic challenges of the ageing population, stemming from workforce ageing and reduction, as well as the pressures on the pension fund, by increasing the labour participation rate (Diaz Diaz, 2012 The decision to work or to retire is influenced by the macro-social environment (Flynn, 2010, p. 309) which is represented by the national labour legislation and the pension system, personal factors, family influences, negative and positive incentives offered by employers as well as factors related to work. The factors of retirement are divided (Humphrey et al., 2003;Irving et al., 2005) into those which push individuals towards withdrawing from the labour market (i.e. push factors) and those that pull them to abandon work (i.e. pull factors). These explain, individually or in a mutual interaction, the individual decision of a person to withdraw from the labour market. As a rule, the push factors are negative and affect the involuntary decision of an employee to withdraw from the labour market. The most frequent push factors (Irving et al., 2005, p. 42), which separately or combined affect the withdrawal from the labour market earlier than when a person wants it to happen or than it is normal, include a poor health condition and the laying off of redundant employees. Besides illness and redundancies, the push factors include decreased motivation for work (Humprey et al., 2003), negative changes in t...
Namen članka je ugotoviti, kakšno je zadovoljstvo starejših delavcev pri delu v Sloveniji v primerjavi z EU, analizirati njegove posamezne dimenzije, specifike glede na starost, spol, sektor dejavnosti in vrsto poklica ter ugotoviti, kaj ga najbolj determinira. V statistični analizi, v kateri so bili uporabljeni podatki Pete Eurofoundove raziskave o delovnih razmerah v Evropi iz leta 2010, ugotavljamo, da se Slovenija, ki je imela leta 2011 najnižjo stopnjo zaposlenosti starejših v EU, po stopnji zadovoljstva starejših delavcev pri delu med državami članicami uvršča na 15. mesto in zaostaja za povprečjem EU. Če so slovenski starejši delavci tako kot njihovi evropski kolegi najbolj zadovoljni s koristnostjo lastnega dela in najmanj z možnostmi za napredovanje, pa primerjava z drugimi državami članicami pokaže, da so relativno nezadovoljni z delovnimi pogoji, plačo in ustreznostjo motiviranja za zavzeto delo ter relativno zadovoljni s koristnostjo lastnega dela in s sodelavci. Stopnjo zadovoljstva starejših delavcev pri delu najbolj determinira zadovoljstvo z ustreznostjo motiviranja za zavzeto delo. Ključne besede: starejši delavci, zadovoljstvo pri delu, stopnja zaposlenosti, dejavniki spodbujanja podaljševanja delovne aktivnosti, delovni pogoji, Slovenija, EU AbstractThe purpose of this article is to compare older workers' job satisfaction in Slovenia to that in the EU in order to analyse its various dimensions as well as specifics regarding age, gender, sector of activity, and type of occupation; it also seeks to identify what determines older workers' job satisfaction most. Using data from Eurofound's Fifth European Working Conditions survey in 2010, the statistical analysis indicates that Slovenia, which had the lowest employment rate of older people in the EU in 2011, ranks 15th among member states and below the EU average. Slovenia's older workers, like their European colleagues, are most satisfied with the recognition of job well done and least satisfied with the opportunities for promotion. Compared with other member states, Slovenia's older workers are relatively dissatisfied with their working conditions, salary, and adequacy of motivation for committed work while being relatively satisfied with the recognition of job well done and colleagues. Older workers' job satisfaction is mostly determined based on the adequacy of motivation for committed work.
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