Work Ability Concept

Annotation defining the main module´s goals

Participants will get familiar with the definition of individual factors of work competencies which creates „Home of work accopmlishment“ and similiar effects.  They will know the content of mesaurable tool to measure work ability (Work Ability Index), and the usage of the results. Participants will be able to understant the effect of aging in the area of work abilities and will know the measures of on keeping theirs work abilities in regards to individual generations in workplace. Participants will be acquanted with selected managers measures to support change management in the course of life with different generations from the perspective of the employer. They will also learn to set up theirs retirement strategy.

Expected learning outcomes

graduate of the modul will be able to
a)       prove knowledge of terminology of the issues of work ability;

b)      name each factorst of work ability;

c)       prove knowledge of the tool used to measure work ability its usage and results;

d)      exhibit the knowledge of effects of aging on individual factors of work ability;

e)      introduce measures to promote work capacity by individual floors of „Home of work accopmlishment“ from the perspective of employer;

f)         to provide measures to support change management in different generations from the employer’s point of view;

g)       prepare a suitable retirement strategy proposal..

Content of teaching

• The concept of working ability
• Individual factors of working ability
• Index of work capacity and utilization of obtained results
• Effect of aging on work ability
• Opportunities to support work abilities for individual generations at the workplace
• Managerial measures to support change management in the course of life
• Strategy for preparing for retirement

Teaching methods

• lecture, professional interpretation
• controlled discussion
• Individual and group work
• practical individual and group exercises
• presentation to individual and group work
• individual work
• Self-study

Way of conclusion

In the course of the lecture, the lecturer will observe the work of the individual participants, on the basis of targeted observation, controlled interviewing (questioning) and the results of the partial tasks decides whether the participant has achieved the desired results or has not achieved them. If the lecturer is not convinced that the participant of all required module outputs has actually reached, he / she will enter a task on which the participant proves / does not