Applying Strategies of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation to Maintain Work Ability—A Psychosocial Resource Complementing the Job Demand–Control Model?: Results From the Representative lidA Cohort Study on Work, Age, and Health in Germany

OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether aging employeesʼ selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC) strategies were associated with work ability over and above job demand and control variables, as well as across professions. METHODS:Multivariable linear regressions were conducted using a representativ...

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Published in:Journal of occupational and environmental medicine 2015-05, Vol.57 (5), p.552-561
Main Authors: Riedel, Natalie, Müller, Andreas, Ebener, Melanie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age Factors
Compensation
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Germany
Human resource management
Humans
Intervention
Job Satisfaction
Linear Models
Male
Middle Aged
Models, Organizational
Models, Psychological
Occupational Health
Optimization
Original Article
Personnel Delegation
Personnel Management - methods
Personnel Selection
Prevention programs
Prospective Studies
Regression analysis
Social psychology
Staff Development
Work Capacity Evaluation
Workers' Compensation
Workload
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Summary:OBJECTIVE:To investigate whether aging employeesʼ selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC) strategies were associated with work ability over and above job demand and control variables, as well as across professions. METHODS:Multivariable linear regressions were conducted using a representative sample of German employees born in 1959 and 1965 (N = 6057). RESULTS:SOC was assessed to have an independent effect on work ability. Associations of job demands and control variables with work ability were more prominent. The SOC tended to enhance the positive association between decision authority and work ability. CONCLUSIONS:Individual strategies of selection, optimization, and compensation could be considered as psychosocial resources adding up to a better work ability and complement prevention programs. Workplace interventions should deal with job demands and control to maintain older employeesʼ work ability in times of working population shrinkage.
ISSN:1076-2752
1536-5948
DOI:10.1097/JOM.0000000000000402