A Cross Cultural Investigation of Age Stereotypes and Communication Perceptions of Older and Younger Workers in the USA and Thailand

Older adults and mobile technology: Factors that enhance and inhibit utilization in the context of behavioral health

“…Across the globe, stereotypes persist that older adults are afraid, unwilling, and unable to use technology, including computers, email, the internet, and mobile phones [27][28][29][30][31][32]-causing a "digital divide" [33]. Many of these stereotypes are perpetuated by older adults, who may believe themselves incapable of learning to use technology [34].…”

Intergenerational resource tensions in the workplace and beyond: Individual, interpersonal, institutional, international

“…Although lay beliefs assume that Eastern filial piety traditions imply elevated respect for elders in those cultures relative to Western ones (Ng, 1998(Ng, , 2002, a comprehensive East-West comparison in this domain has been lacking. Moreover, cross-cultural comparisons of attitudes toward older workers per se are relatively rare and inconclusive with respect to East-West differences in this domain (Chiu, Chan, Snape, & Redman, 2001;McCann & Giles, 2007;McCann & Keaton, 2013). As a step toward this aim, later in this chapter we will summarize our own recent cross-cultural analysis of attitudes toward older adults, and its implications for organizational research going forward.…”

“…Moreover, as with many of the topics included in this chapter, studies focusing on cross-cultural perceptions of older workers are largely inconclusive. For instance, Americans and Thais hold largely comparable views of older workers, both positive and negative (McCann & Giles, 2006McCann & Keaton, 2013), and similarly mixed findings emerge when comparing U.K. versus Hong Kong participants (Chiu et al, 2001). With workforce aging spanning societies around the globe (Manyika, Remes, & Dobbs, 2015), cross-cultural perspectives stand to become an increasingly important lens through which to investigate the focal topics of this chapter.…”

When Age Stereotypes are Employment Barriers: a Conceptual Analysis and a Literature Review on Older Workers Stereotypes

“…Workability The most positive stereotype toward older workers concerned their reliability, accuracy, loyalty and commitment to the job, even if compared with younger coworkers (Gray and McGregor 2003;Gringart et al 2008;Henkens 2005;McCann and Keaton 2013). In term of job suitability, results of this review (both by employers and younger workers) were aligned on older workers knowledge and competence; on the other hand, respondents in New Zeland and Australian context thought that older workers were few able to work long hours (Gray and McGregor 2003) and physically strong (Gringart et al 2008).…”