期刊名称：Journal of Emerging Trends in Economics and Management Sciences
电子版ISSN：2141-7024
出版年度：2015
卷号：6
期号：4
页码：285-289
出版社：Scholarlink Resource Centre
摘要：Ageism can be expressed in the form of forced retirement, stigma, ostracism, or inequitable performance assessmentpractices. It is demoralizing to older workers. Ageism can be understood from the perspective of specific ecologicalprocesses, defined at a microsystem level, within particular organizational contexts, Segregation is an example of aprocess by which ageism may be sustained in organizations. Older workers understand well that a key to success isparticipation in ongoing cooperative activities. Those who are invited to join cooperative groups are able to work onprojects that lead to survival and advancement. Given prevailing ageism in organizations, older workers requireopportunities to effectively cooperate. Another technique used to support ageism is information control. Managersattempt to maintain and disseminate organizationally prescribed reality based on stereotypes of the aging worker.When these processes become policies in organizations, valuable resources in the form of human capital are lost.Recommendations made in this paper are designed to help managers to change and eliminate conditions that supportageism in organizations by creating a workplace supportive of older workers who are able and willing to contributeto the organization.
关键词：ageism; organizations; segregation; information control; ecology
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