Organisational background   Elias Emergency University Clinic Hospital was established in 1936 as part of the bequest of Jacques Elias, a well-known businessman and intellectual, to the Romanian Academy. At the same time, Elias Emergency University Clinic Hospital established a partnership with the Emergency University Hospital in Bucharest. Elias Emergency University Clinic Hospital is a public healthcare services institution. In terms of employment and career development, it operates an equal opportunities policy regarding both age and sex.

  Organisational background   Health Care Trust is a public organisation under the National Health Service (NHS), which provides hospital care and treatment to inpatients, outpatients and day clients in southeast England. The Trust employs just over 2,000 people, and the age profile of the workforce ranges from 20 to 65 years old. Management of the Trust regards its workforce as ‘ageing’ and predominantly female, particularly in the nursing sector.

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  Organisational background   This case study concerns a private-sector company that generates and sells electricity. Previously a state-owned enterprise, the British government sold the company to the private sector in 1996. The company’s core business is generating electricity through eight nuclear power stations at seven locations throughout the UK. It also has one coal-fired power station, three corporate centres and a central London office.