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Table 11.1. Types of system, background and target population

Company Background Type of system Target population
• school Major change in Support programmes All workers
• call centre strategy and business toward redeployment Ageing workers =
• clothes lines, sometimes and mobility: career priority audience,
producer including restructuring reviews, training in some cases
• steel producer
• pharma ceutical
company Skills
• granule mining Departure of skills Preparing employees to Experienced
company deemed strategic to pass on experience- employees with
• plastic furniture company based knowledge key skills
producer
• silk producer Skills

• medical centre Need to prevent Support system aimed All employees
professional wear and at internal
lower absenteeism redeployment

Health

• research centre Agreement signed for Career-end Ageing workers
senior workers, management (later-
following change in career reviews,
retirement terms foresight-based job and
skill management and
Professional jobs reserved for
commitment seniors)

• entrepreneur Structure dedicated to Support programmes Entrepreneurs
entrepreneur support for entrepreneurs

Professional
commitment

Source: Author.

In fact, the targeted populationʼs distinguishing feature was not age, but the
fact that they were either:
(a) experienced workers with key skills; or
(b) workers with seniority and one long-standing job in a changing
environment.