Value of Age Diversity – Declarations and Practice in Polish Organizations

Stankiewicz, Katarzyna

doi:10.5755/j01.ss.89.3.13670

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“…The consequence of a proper functioning age-diverse team allows for complementing and extending a team's effectiveness, a better quality of work (Stankiewicz, 2015;Roberge and Dick, 2010) and increased job satisfaction (Rabl and Triana, 2014). However, as demonstrated by the already-mentioned research study by Stankiewicz (2015), conducted on a research sample of organizations in Poland, discrepancies between an organization's declared opinion (the organization is aware of benefits of age diversity management) and actions taken to form age-diverse teams (the organization creates an environment which enables to use the full potential of age-diverse teams) are apparent. The inconsistency of the result could be explained by a widespread social belief that age-diverse teams are beneficial and an legislative pressure on anti-discrimination rules.…”

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How to manage senior employees? Theories and current fields of research in an organizational context

Kosowski¹

2019

SiM WZ UW

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The greying of the workforce is a globally discussed phenomenon. It gained importance for organizations, policy-makers and scholars alike. This article offers an overview of applied theories and fields of research pertaining to the discussion on senior employees in the workforce. It presents current managerial practices for senior employees and assesses factors for the employability of senior employees in an organization. Design/methodology: The paper is based on a review of recent academic articles published in peer-reviewed journals. Keywords and elimination criteria are explained in the corresponding section. Findings: The article incorporates studies on senior employees from various disciplines in the field of organizational research. It portrays leading streams of thought on the employability of senior workers (e.g. depreciation/conservation model, standard economic theory and human capital theory). Moreover, it elaborates organizational factors which affect the employability of this cohort (e.g. motivators and demotivators for senior employees) Research limitations/implications: The article discusses the field of organizational research and related factors. Therefore, it is limited to studies concerning the field of organizational research. Economic, social or individual influences also constitute an important topic which should be investigated and discussed. Originality/value: The article presents the first review of theories and fields of research on senior employees in organizations and connects job and organizational factors which influence the employment situation of senior employees in an organization. The review encourages a dialogue regarding senior employees from various disciplines.

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How to manage senior employees? Theories and current fields of research in an organizational context

Kosowski¹

2019

SiM WZ UW

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“…The ageing of the population is identified as a grand global issue (Barkema et al, 2015;George et al, 2016). Under an ageing workforce, scholars understand an increase of high aged employees in the organisation, plus a more age-diverse employee base (Stankiewicz, 2015). A first concern is the strong presence of people belonging to the baby boomer generation in the workforce (Van Bavel & Reher, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%