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Stereotyping older workers and retirement
— the managers' point of view | | Author(s) | Kčne Henkens |
| Journal title | Canadian Journal on Aging, vol 24, no 4, Winter 2005 |
| Pages | pp 353-366 |
| Source | http://www.utpjournals.com |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Managers ; Social surveys ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | The results are presented of a study into stereotyping by managers of their older workers and the influence of these stereotypes on the inclination of managers to keep these older workers in employment. The data for the study were gathered from 796 managers in the Netherlands. Through principal components analysis, 15 options about older workers were reduced to three dimensions of stereotypes: productivity of older staff, and their reliability and adaptability. These stereotypical ideas about older workers influence managers' attitudes toward the retirement of their employees. The analyses show that besides organisational factors, psychological mechanisms also explain why people view older workers through stereotypes. Managers who are older and in more frequent contact with older employees tend to hold more positive views. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070110202 A |
| Classmark | GC: TOB: T6: 3F: 76H |
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