This article discusses the issue of age management in organizations and presents research results concerning workers’ perceptions of the phenomenon. The aim of the research was to study the perceptions of Polish employees of various professional fields, check employees’ level of knowledge of the age management issue, determine the variables differentiating this knowledge and verify whether employees consider age management to be useful and how they perceive experienced workers.
The first part of the article presents concepts explaining what age management is in the context of demographic changes in European societies. Age management is a term encompassing a range of methods aiming at the possibly most effective use of human capital in organizations, irrespective of employees’ age, so that their work is efficient, profitable for the company as well as satisfying for the workers themselves. Strategies referring to age management should consider the perspectives of the company, employee, job market policy and demographic and economic situation conditions. In the later part of this article, the authors present the results of exploratory research into the level of knowledge of age management, the way it is perceived in organizations around Poland, mostly in international corporations. The research included employees of business and budget sectors. Respondents answered questionnaire questions by estimating, on the Likert scale, how they assess age management measures taken in their workplace, the need to use experienced workers’ potential, etc. In the authors’ opinion, because of the importance of the problem of efficient personnel management and promoting and applying age management programs, it is necessary for both employees and managers to have awareness, knowledge and positive attitude towards methods activating the potential of employees from various age ranges.
Streszczenie: W trakcie realizacji kariery naukowej kobiety napotykają liczne czynniki, które wspierają ich rozwój zawodowy, jak również te, które stanowią jego ograniczenia, w sensie zarówno subiektywnym, jak i obiektywnym. Posiadanie zasobów osobistych jest czynnikiem sprzyjającym realizacji celów, odnoszeniu sukcesów. Zasoby pomagają w efektywnym funkcjonowaniu i radzeniu sobie przez osobę z wyzwaniami i zadaniami, które przed nią stoją. Istnieją znaczne różnice między kobietami i mężczyznami w spostrzeganiu posiadanych zasobów osobistych. Z badań wynika, iż mężczyźni naukowcy mają w wyższym stopniu niż kobiety naukowcy zasoby ekonomiczno-polityczne oraz władzy i prestiżu, a kobiety dysponują w stopniu wyższym niż mężczyźni szeroko pojętymi zasobami duchowymi.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.