Work is an important activity in an individual's life, providing a livelihood for a decent life, but work must also be satisfying and the working environment a stimulus for personal and career development. Job satisfaction determines how long an employee stays in the working environment or leaves it to seek opportunities elsewhere, regardless of age and occupational background. The labour market is currently facing a shortage of suitable staff, which means that there are unlimited opportunities for labour mobility in today's labour market. Age is therefore no longer a barrier to an employee's decision to leave his or her current working environment to take up new challenges.
The topic I am dealing with in this Master's thesis - Changing jobs at will - concerns the change of employment of employees in middle adulthood who have passed the age of 40 and have decided to change their current job. The topic will therefore involve exploring the reasons why individuals change jobs in middle adulthood between the ages of 40 and 65.
In the theoretical part, I will discuss the role, meaning and impact of work on the individual, present the importance of quality of working life in the life of the individual, discuss the termination of employment with a focus on voluntary termination of employment, and conclude the theoretical part with a chapter on the relevance of social work in the field of work and human resources. In the empirical part, I will explore the reasons why employees decide to change jobs, which is also my main research question, while preliminarily identifying the impact of the previous employer's working environment on the employee in the light of the employee's decision to change jobs, the process of job change itself, the role played by the previous employer in this context and presenting the new employer's working environment from the employee's perspective and satisfaction with it. In empirical research, through qualitative research with seven people aged 40 to 57 who had changed jobs in the last two years, I found that employees leave the workplace mainly because of a desire for quality of life.
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