Conference program
Revised 8th June 2010
PROGRAM AND SET OF ABSTRACT FOR DOWNLOADING
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WEDNESDAY 9TH JUNE
10.00 - 17.00 Pre conference company visits, The Norwegian Model and Senior Policy.
Meeting room: Kvinten 2. Transport to companies.
15.00 - 19.00 Registration at conference venue, Thon Hotel Opera
19.20 Welcome reception – The Oslo Fjord on board the sailship “Christiania”.
Host: Åsmund Lunde, Director, Centre for Senior Policy, Norway
(Boarding from 19.00)
THURSDAY 10TH JUNE
09.00-10.20 Plenary session - Meeting room: Flagstadsalen
Moderator: Robert Salomon, Work Reseach Institute, Norway
09.00-09.10 Music, Lars Klevstrand
09.10-09.20 Welcoming address: First Confederal Secretary Ellen Stensrud, The Norwegian
Confederation of Trade Unions (LO), member of the board, Centre for Senior Policy
09.20-10.00 Research Challenges for Older Workers.
Professor Juhani Ilmarinen, Institute of Occupational Health, Finland
10.00-10.20 Welcoming address: State secretary Jan-Erik Støstad, Ministry of Labour, Norway
10.20-10.50 Break
10.30-12.30 Parallel workshops (click on name to open abstract in pdf).
Workshop A. Meeting room: Figaro
Age management and leadership
Moderator: Reidar Johan Mykletun
Managers decision latitude for age management
Ageing Workforce Management Program in Vattenfall
To Work or not to Work in an Extended Working Life
Workshop B. Meeting room: Tryllefløyten
Discrimination
Moderators: Libby Brooke and Per Erik Solem
Ageism and discrimination of older workers in Norway
Occupational processes and age stereotypes
Abolishing mandatory retirement in the UK and USA
Older Workers as a vulnerable workforce
Workshop C. Meeting room: Kammeret
Lifelong Learning
Moderator: Tarja Tikkanen
Lifelong learning:The perspective of social partners
Further education in times of demographic change
Demographic change and the business case for engaging older workers in lifelong learning
Workshop D. Meeting room: Kvinten 2
Mature age workers and retirement
Moderator: Hanne Heen
Working after retirement age. A literature review.
Re-employment of Older Workers in Singapore
Age-related Factors in the Motivation to Work
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 Plenary session - Meeting room: Flagstadsalen
Moderator: Robert Salomon, Work Reseach Institute, Norway
14.00-14.30 Economic and social incentives for viable age policies
Senior Research Economist Knut Røed,
Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research
14.30-15.00 Employability and Career Success Across the Life-Span:
Age as moderator in the Relationship Between Self-
Versus Supervisor Ratings of Employability and Career Success.
Professor Beatrice v.d. Heijden, Radboud University Nijmegen the Netherlands
15.00-15.30 Break
15.30-17.30 Parallel workshops (click on name to open abstract in pdf).
Workshop A (ctd). Meeting room: Figaro
Age management and leadership
Moderator: Reidar Johan Mykletun
The limits of solidarity
The financial crisis and managers' attitudes towards older workers
Associations Between Age Attitudes, Self-Categorization and Emotional Exhaustion
Exploring the Survivor-syndrome in an ageing workforce
Workshop D (ctd). Meeting room: Kvinten 2
Mature age workers and retirement
Moderator: Hanne Heen
Change and choice the baby boomers key to retirement in 2025: a New Zealand Delphi study
Timing of retirement and mortality - A cohort study of Swedish construction workers
The resource-based view: a theoretical home for older workers
Workshop E. Meeting room: Kammeret
Work Environment and health
Moderator: Einar Jebens
Safety and Health Promotion; taking evidence into practice
Work ability among senior workers (50+) in a construction company
Senior Taxi drivers in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Elderly workers in physically demanding jobs: How do they manage?
Sterud, Tom:
Senior employees' working environment in Norway
19.00 Aperitifs, Thon Hotel Opera
19.30 Conference Dinner, Thon Hotel Opera
FRIDAY 11TH JUNE
09.00-10.30 Plenary session - Meeting room: Flagstadsalen
Moderator: Ann Therese Lotherington, Northern Research Institute, Norway
09.00-09.10 Music, Alexander Hermansen
09.10-09.40 Defining public policy for older workers: an ill-defined group
Professor Philip Taylor, Monash University, Australia
09.40-10.10 Extending Working Life: Problems and prospects for Social and Public Policy.
Professor Chris Phillipson, University of Keele, UK
10.10-10.30 Break
10.30-12.00 Parallel workshops
Workshop F. Meeting room: Figaro
Older workers life situation
Moderator: Hanne Bogen
Ageing workers: The jam in the sandwich
Working Late and the Growing Spectre of Uselessness
The Gendered and Domestic Context for Retirement
Age, Unemployment and Mental Health
Workshop G. Meeting room: Kammeret
Labor market, employment and demographic challenge
Moderator: Roland Kadefors
Ageing and the European Labour Market
Best Agers: using the knowledge and experience of professionals - Baltic Sea region
A three phase perspective on senior policies
Does extra days offcontribute to keeping the seniors at work longer?
Workshop H. Meeting room: Kvinten 2
Collective agreements and sustainable age policies
Moderator: Bert Lokhorst
Special session investigating how collective labor agreements can promote sustainable working life participation, including presentation of research results from the Netherlands. Exchange of views and comments from participants.
Tove Midtsundstad:
Norwegian experiences, practices and recent developments on collective agreements
12.00 -13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Plenary session - Meeting room: Flagstadsalen
Moderator: Ann Therese Lotherington, Northern Research Institute, Norway
13.30-14.30 Research areas and policy implications - Panel discussions and questions.
Moderator: Professor Richard Ennals, Kingston University, UK
14.30-15.00 A sustainable working life
Sum up by Associate Professor Liv Hanson Ausland,
Vestfold University College, Norway
15.00 Closing remarks
Director (departement) Eivind Hovden, The Research Council of Norway
