Organisational background  

  Organisational background   In 2000, the Municipality of Horsens initiated a project aimed at encouraging older teachers to remain employed instead of taking early retirement. The Municipality of Horsens in the Jutland peninsula has 14 public primary schools with about 9,000 registered pupils. Overall, 746 teachers are employed at these schools, of whom about two thirds are women.

  Organisational background   A project originally aimed at senior employees in the Vordingborg Municipal Home Care organisation has led to flexible working practices for all employees. The case study comprises experiences and practices in a district of Vordingborg Municipality in southern Zealand. Up to the end of 2006, the district was an independent municipality, but it is now incorporated into a larger conglomerate of four municipalities under the name of Vordingborg Kommune.

  Organisational background   In 2004, in order to improve its HR policy and the ways it is effectively implemented, Messier-Bugatti launched a working project called ‘Generations’. By setting up various working groups and systematically gathering employees, consisting of HR and operational managers from different generations, the project has aims to foster attitudes towards significant HR issues by improving cooperation between different generations of employees.