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Figure 14: Firm typology
Firm labels within a circle mark companies in the food manufacturing sector, and those within a rectangle –
companies in the transportation equipment sector.
The upper right quadrant contains ´good practice´ firms, the lower left quadrant – ´bad practice´.
Firm DE-5, Firm DE-8, Firm PL-3 and Firm PL-5 were not included due to scarce material.
The X axis is based on an index across four personnel policy domains (recruitment,
further vocational training, health management and exit policy). It depicts whether the
personnel policy of the firm has and externalising or integrating effect upon older workers.
The Y axis takes into account whether the personnel policy of firms has a strategic, longterm
orientation and with regard to how many measures (e.g. know-how transfer, ageadequate
working conditions). When taking into account the position of the firms on the Y
axis, the more developed personnel policy of firms in the transportation equipment sector
(value 1 and higher on the Y axis) stands out when compared to firms in the food
manufacturing sector which are largely arrested at the stage of ´muddling through´.
However, the differences between branches are valid only within the given country context.
With regard to German firms in my sample, I took into account the grade to which HRM
policy considers the ageing of the workforce (comp. Table 16 in section 4.2.2.). However,
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