Researching Lived Experience of Re-employment of Middle-Aged People

• Main Authors: Chiung-Ying Chen, 陳藑瑛
• Other Authors: Min-Hsun Christine Kuo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37509528503821167851

碩士 === 元智大學 === 企業管理學系 === 94 === The changes of society and economy are fast and the ratio of the aging population is raising year by year; certainly, middle-aged labor become one of the human resources of the labor market. But the observation from 1979 to 1999, the unemployment rate of middle-aged people grew every year is the first of each aged-level(Council of Labor Affairs，1999). In the view of the condition of supply exceeds the demand in the middle-aged labor market, the study interviewed with the middle-aged people who have had the re-employment experience. The result from the study offered suggestions to the enterprises that wish to hire middle-aged people for re-employment. Based on the hermeneutic phenomenology of the qualitative research method, the study used depth interview, information arrangement, information analysis in the study process. The author intended to display, restore and interpret this phenomenon of re-employment experience of middle-aged people. The author hoped to discover lived experience that was never revealed in the literature. The objects of study are 6 middle-aged people with re-employment experience. By using interviews to understand the lived experience of re-employment, the author identified three themes through interviewees’ sharing. The themes covered from leaving the job, seeking for the job and returning to the job market, and the themes are: (1)Fewer opportunities after leaving the job: it discussed the change of life and the mind of the middle-aged people after leaving the job market. (2)More difficulties when seeking for the job: it discussed the difficulties and baffles when the middle-aged people are seeking for the job. (3)Show up the snatches of job market life: it discussed the real experience of returning to the job market. Under each main theme, sub-themes were used to describe the experience more completely. At last, the author described the research limits and recommendations for future researchers.