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Group members:

• Florjančič Nastja
• Grbin Brigita
• Susič Anja
• Tomažič Urša  

 

Distribution of work:

 

leader - Nastja

 

secretary - Anja Susič

 

reporter - Brigita Grbin

 

time-setter - Urša Tomažič

 

THE PROBLEM OF AGEING WORKFORCE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING IN SLOVENIA

 

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In contemporary world where life expectancy is getting longer, active population is getting older and represents a new challenge for management. People have never before dealt with the problem of ageing in the labour market which today is present particularly in companies where work demands physical strength, such as civil engineering companies.

In this paper we will examine how Slovenia and some other  countries in Europe are dealing with this problem and try to compare the perception of it from employer`s and employee`s point of view.

 

 

 The working questions:

 

1.    What is the share of ageing workforce in SLO?

2.    What is the share of ageing workforce in EU?

3.    What is the definition of ageing according to social gereontology?

4.    How do employers cope with the problem of ageing workforce?

5.    Which tasks in civil engineering aquire vitality and physical strength?

6.    How do the employees cope with problems of ageing?

7.    How are the workers satisfied with employer´s solutions of the problem?

8.    Which consequences do employees feel?

 

  The list of literature:

 

      1.    European commission, 2002. Work and health in EU. A statistical portrait. Data 1994- 2002. Dostopno prek:                        http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-57-04-807/EN/KS-57-04-807-EN.PDF (dne 05.02.2009)

 

 

2.    European Commission, 2008.  The life of women and men in Europe. A statistical portrait 2008. Dostopno prek: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-80-07-135/EN/KS-80-07-135-EN.PDF (dne 05.02.2009)

 

 

3.    Office for official publications of the European communities, 2002. 18th CEIES seminar. Active ageing statistics. The Hague, 23 and 24 May 2002.Dostopno prek: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/KS-PB-02-006/EN/KS-PB-02-006-EN.PDF (dne 5.02.2009)

 

 

4.    Binstock, R.H. in George, L.K. 2001. Handbook of ageing and the social sciences. San Diego: Academic Press.

 

 

5.    Cavanaugh J.C. in Whitborne, S.K. 1999. Gereontology. An interdisciplinary Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

 

Distribution of tasks:

 

1. Introduction      - Aim of our paper, used methodology, advantages and disasvantages of used methodology. Anja Susič

2. Theoretical part -Definition of ageing and ageing workforce as a problem. Nastja Florjančič

                             -Ageing population in EU and Slovenia and review of poltics which are dealnig with problem of ageing workforce. Urša Tomažič

 

3. Empirical part    - Interpretation of survey and interview.- Brigita Grbin

 

4. Conclusion. Anja Susič

 

5. Literature

 

6. Appendices

 

 

GLOSSARY:

 

~ work- aggravated disease- work which accelerates diseses; poslabšanje bolezni zaradi dela

 

~self- assessed work- work that is assesed by employee himself; samoocenitev dela

 

~ ILO- an agency founded by United Nations that deals with labour issues; Mednarodna organizacija dela

 

~social gereontology- sociology of ageing; sociologija staranja

 

~dependency ratio- percentage of people that is not a part of labour market; delež odvisnih v populaciji

 

~economically inactive- people who are not a part of work force; ekonomsko neaktivni

 

~Key Indicators of Labour Market (KILM)- a book with numerical data classified by sex which show a state and trends on labour market (Plahutnik); Ključni indikatorji trga delovne sile

 

~baby-boomers- generation born after Second World War that is now approaching the retirement age; generacija rojena po 2. svetovni vojni

 

~active ageing- concept developed by European Comission which evokes the idea of longer activity and a higher retirement age(Internet 1); Politika aktivnega staranja

 

  ~pension shock- when somebody retires he/she often experiences a shock when he/she gets a lower pension than was his salary; šok ob upokojitvi

 

lITERATURA IN VIRI:

 Internet 1: Wikpedia. Dostopno prek: www.wiki.org/wiki/Active_ageing (dne 22.903.2009)

 

 

Plahutnik, B. Saša. Kazalniki trga dela. Dostopno prek: www. stat.si/radenci/referat/BALOH%PLAHUTNIK.doc (dne 18.03.2009)

 

 

 

 

Minutes of the first meeting held on the 28th February, 2009 at FDV

 

Present:

 

 

o       A.Susič

o       B. Grbin

o       U. Tomažič

o       N. Florjančič

 

 

 

 Agenda:

 

1. Selecting a topic

2. Discussion of the topic

3. Selecting a specific problem

4. Any other business

 

 

Item 1:

Discussion

The  top priority of our first meeting was finding a topic for our project. We went trough the list of topics and selected a few most interesting ones.

Decision

After narrowing down the options each of us selected her favourite topic and we all agreed that it will be Body an labour: ageing and working environment.

 

Item 2: 

Discussion

We discussed what could be the most interesting aspect of our topic.

Decision

We decided to gather more literature and then decide on which aspect to focus.

 

Item 3:

 

Discussion

After brainstorming, gathering information and literature we came to the conclusion that we have two options for our topic. We had to decide between the problem of ageing workforce in police force or civil engineering.

Decision

We selected civil engineering because we have better access to the information.

 

Item 4:

At the end of the meeting we distributed the assignments

Assignments: Nastja and Brigita will try to form a qustionnaire, Urša and Anja will find literature and make a selection of the latest and most important articles.

 

The next meeting will be held on Thursday, 5th of March, at 9:00 am.

 

 

Minutes of the second meeting held on 5th March, 2009 at FDV

 

Present:

 

 

o       A.Susič

o       B. Grbin

o       U. Tomažič

o       N. Florjančič

 

 

 

Agenda:

 

1.    Selecting literature

2.    10 questions about the problem

3.    Any other business

 

Item 1: Selecting literature

 

Discussion:

Every member of the group found some useful literature and shared it with other members.

Decision: The preliminary list of literature that we will use is published in this wiki page.

 

Item 2: 10 questions about the problem

 

Discussion:

Every group member suggested some questions about our problem, which he thought were interesting. Anja suggested a few questions about the statistics of employment in civil engineering in Europe and in Slovenia, Brigita proposed that we write some kind of definition of ageing and Nastja told us we could use her literature from the subject Social gereontology to find the appropriate one. Furthermore, Nastja suggested that we write about politics concerning the problem of ageing in labour market and Urša put forward the question about the employers view of the  problem.

 

Decision: The questions are published in this wiki page.

 

 

 

Item 3: The next meeting will be held on Thursday 12th of March 2009 at 9:00 a.m.

 

 

Minutes of the third meeting held on 12th March, 2009 at FDV

 

Present:

 

 

o       A.Susič

o       B. Grbin

o       U. Tomažič

o       N. Florjančič

 

 Agenda:

 

1. Discussing the structure of the report

2. Distribution of tasks

3. Any other business

 

Item 1:

 

Discussion: We talked about our ideas on how the report should be formed. Each of the group members had her own idea but we came to an agreement that it will be best to use standard form composed by two main parts- theoretical and empirical.

 

Decision: We made a draft of our report and agreed with Nastja's suggestion that each of us will write the assigned part. In the introduction we will write about the aim of our paper, our problem and methodology we will use.  The theoretical part will consist of the definition of ageing, its presence in work environment and presentation of data on ageing workforce in the European Union and Slovenia.  The second part, the empirical one, will be the interpretation of our survey and interview. In conclusion we will sum up our findings and positive and negative sides of them. 

 

Item 2: Distribution of tasks

 

Discussion: Urša suggested that each group member writes about the part she is interested in and all of us agreed with her proposal.

 

Decision: The structure of our report is presented below.

 

1.    Introduction: Aim of our paper, methodology will we use, advantages and disadvantages of the used methods - survey, interview.

 

2.    Theoretical part

 

2.1.                   Definition of ageing.

2.2.                   Why does ageing present a problem and how does it reflect in working enviroment?

2.3.                   Ageing population in Slovenia and EU, review of employment policies that deal with it.

 

3.    Empirical part

 

3.1.       Interpretation of survey and interview.

 

4.  Conclusion

 

5. Bibliography

 

6.Appendices

 

 

Anja will write the first, fourth and fifth part, Nastja will write points 2.1., 2.2. and she will do an interview with one respondent and a survey with approximately 20 respondents. Point 2.3. will be written by Urša and Brigita will write the discussion. 

 

 

 

 

Item 3: The next meeting will be held on Thursday 19th of March 2009 at 9:00 a.m.

 

Minutes of the forth meeting held on the 28th February, 2009 at FDV

 

Agenda:

 

 

1) Action-item follow-up

2) Glossary

3) Any other business

 

Item 1:

Discussion: All assignments from the previous meeting have been done. Our project is in progress.

Decision:  We will continue with our research and we will try to finish it untill the next meeting. Then we will discuss about possible improvements of our research. We will use the literature that is already written down on this page.

 

 

Item 2:

Discussion: We have all found some expressions for our glossary. Each of us suggested some unknown words that we have found in the literature and were interesting to us.

Decision: All words will be sent to Brigita and she will publish them in the wiki.

 

 

Item 3:

Discussion: Nastja suggested that the next meeting is held on 25th March.

Desicion: We all agreed.

 

 

The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, 25th March 2009, at 10.00, at FDV library.