dc.contributor.author | Eriksson, Tuula | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-02T11:44:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-02T11:44:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-951-39-7096-3 | |
dc.identifier.other | oai:jykdok.linneanet.fi:1702713 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/54272 | |
dc.description.abstract | The aim of this study was to offer an additional point of view of the age political discourse on work endurance, initiated by Finland’s public administration in the early
2000s. The personal experiences of the staff of a multi-professional work community
were exploited to find clues to occupational well-being and endurance at work. Seventeen employees aged 45—64 at the actual work community were chosen as data or material for study, i.e. to be interviewed. A phenomenological-hermeneutical approach
was applied to shed light on how to create well-being at work. Personal experiences of
work endurance were analyzed and interpreted along the guidelines of the stepwise
method used in phenomenology. The analysis and interpretation of the data showed
that the nature of work had changed and the consequences constituted a risk to occupational well-being. The interviewees felt that they had also changed; as seniors they
had become unique and different from each other. Their experiences of work endurance were also different. Meaningful work was to almost everyone the most important
factor that promoted work endurance and well-being. Meaningful work made people
feel at home and commit themselves. It protected against too much haste and pressure
at work, and it supported the balance between work and private life, important for
endurance. The supportive measures and practices of the work community promoted
work endurance, and the official measures were completed by people’s personal means
of endurance as well as their personal qualities. What was experienced as meaningful
was daily team work and mutual support from peers; both these factors promoted life-
long learning and one’s personal growth at work, and compensated for loss of social
communication that had been reduced by too much haste. Analysis and explanation of
negative experiences proved to be essential in promoting well-being at work. A stress
factor that had not been analyzed remained unsolved, consumed a person’s strength
and undermined the balance he or she had attained. The years of midlife (40—60/65)
included two successive transitions in development; on one hand, the period of individualizing growth with new resources and new plans, on the other hand, the period
of giving up with feelings of loss at retirement. In both transition periods, allocated
guidance and support would have been needed. In the former case, the resources, ex-
perience and new plans of the seniors should have been made use of. In the latter, support would have been needed to cope with feelings of loss and fear that were roused
by leaving a work community and its human relationships, as well as anticipated loneliness of old age | |
dc.format.extent | 1 verkkoaineisto (230 sivua) : kuvitettu | |
dc.language.iso | fin | |
dc.publisher | University of Jyväskylä | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Jyväskylä studies in education, psychology and social research | |
dc.relation.isversionof | Julkaistu myös painettuna. | |
dc.subject.other | work endurance | |
dc.subject.other | support and guidance | |
dc.subject.other | occupational well-being | |
dc.subject.other | midlife | |
dc.subject.other | means of endurance | |
dc.subject.other | changing work | |
dc.subject.other | ageing | |
dc.subject.other | age | |
dc.title | Ikääntyvät ja työhyvinvointi : 45-64-vuotiaiden työssäjaksamiskokemuksia | |
dc.type | Diss. | |
dc.identifier.urn | URN:ISBN:978-951-39-7096-3 | |
dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
dc.type.ontasot | Väitöskirja | fi |
dc.type.ontasot | Doctoral dissertation | en |
dc.contributor.tiedekunta | Kasvatustieteiden tiedekunta | fi |
dc.contributor.yliopisto | University of Jyväskylä | en |
dc.contributor.yliopisto | Jyväskylän yliopisto | fi |
dc.contributor.oppiaine | Kasvatustiede | fi |
dc.subject.method | Haastattelututkimus | |
dc.subject.method | Fenomenologis-hermeneuttinen tutkimus | |
dc.relation.issn | 0075-4625 | |
dc.relation.numberinseries | 585 | |
dc.rights.accesslevel | openAccess | fi |
dc.subject.yso | ikääntyvät työntekijät | |
dc.subject.yso | työhyvinvointi | |
dc.subject.yso | työtyytyväisyys | |
dc.subject.yso | muutoksenhallinta | |
dc.subject.yso | jaksaminen | |
dc.subject.yso | selviytyminen | |
dc.subject.yso | työssä jatkaminen | |
dc.subject.yso | eläkkeelle siirtyminen | |
dc.subject.yso | tukimuodot | |