Developing Sustainable Careers Across the Lifespan: European Social Fund Network on 'Career and AGE (Age, Generations, Experience) [Paperback]

This book offers insights into facilitating sustainable careers through the study of a wide interdisciplinary range of policy investigations and assessment of ongoing practices in the field. By assessing and comparing the transferability of policies and good practices between firms in ten countries and regions of the European Union this book considers the development of sustainable careers across the lifespan at the levels of individuals, organizations and systems. This book is the culmination of a research project from the international European Social Fund network on Career and Age, Generation, Experience(AGE). It discusses and offers observations on key concerns at the European level: How to make people work longer,  remain employable, develop sustainable competencies ? How to adapt the work environment and human resource management policies at employers level ? And finally, how can public authorities take measures and incentives to support sustainable careers for individuals?

Chapter 1. Conceptual framework for sustainable careers.- Chapter 2. Description of relevant good practices at multiple levels.- Chapter 3. Context & Transfer issues: how can good practices be transferred?.- Chapter 4. Six recommendations for facilitating sustainable careers .- Chapter 5. How can you get started when implementing sustainable careers ? .- Chapter 6. Sustainable competences and career competencies: how to put the individual in the drivers seat?.- Chapter 7. Final Conclusions.

Ans De Vos, PhD, holds the SD Worx chair Next generation work: Creating sustainable careers at Antwerp Management School, Antwerp, Belgium and is full professor at the University of Antwerp, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. She is also a research fellow at the Faculty of Business and Economics, KU Leuven. Her focal areas of interest are career development, sustainabl“â