Iästä johtamiseen : ikäjohtaminen ja eri-ikäisyys johtajuuden tutkimuskohteena

Ikääntymisen merkitys työelämässä – näkökulmia ikäjohtamisen tutkimukseen

Implications of ageing for work: Perspectives for research The article, which focuses on age management and its various definitions and interpretations, was prompted by the need to examine the significance of age management within an organisational framework. The research material combines conceptual research and relevant literature. The National Programme on Ageing Workers 1998–2002 serves as the background for the study. In addition to providing essential data, the Programme was the first to introduce the concept of age management. Since its introduction, age management has been given a wide variety of meanings. Therefore it proved necessary to take a closer look at the relationship betwe…

Eri-ikäisyys ja ikäjohtaminen - Diskursiivinen tutkimus

The purpose of this paper is to examine different age groups and age management in organizations. Age management is obviously an important issue in business organizations and in society as a whole, as it is seen as one solution to the problem of an aging workforce. Age management is defined in this paper based on the theory of diversity management, which regards age as one aspect of diversity. In this paper I explore what kinds of meanings people in the case organizations attach to age and how they define age management in organizations. My research method is discourse analysis, in which the focus is on speech. The main outcome of the study is that people construct “the old” and “the young”…