Work-related decision-making among older workers in the Irish civil service
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Áine Ní Léime, 'Work-related decision-making among older workers in the Irish civil service', [thesis], Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010, pp 345Download Item:
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This thesis is an exploratory study of work-related decision-making among mid-life to
older workers in the Irish Civil Service. The issue of older workers is under-researched
generally and is of significant policy interest given the increasing presence of older
workers in the Irish workforce, and wider concerns over age-discrimination. As well as
providing an empirical study of older workers, this thesis also engages with the muchcontested
debate surrounding Catherine Hakim's "preference theory" (Hakim, 2000). It
investigates the degree to which decision-making is the result of a worker's own individual
preferences (as preference theory suggests) and to what degree it is influenced by external
factors such as legislation and policy, gendered social norms, the economy and
organisational structures, as advocated by critics of Hakim's approach (e.g., Crompton and
Harris, 1998). It also explores to what degree preferences can be considered to be "fixed"
over time.
Author: Ní Léime, Áine
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Mahon, EvelynPublisher:
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