Influence of age discourses on older employees n Germany
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2020-07-09
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en
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The greying of the workforce is a trend which already affects many organizations, but will only continue to become more important in the future. Organizations need to focus on older workers to cope with this trend, therefore, their identities and experiences are not negligible. As discourses influences workers on various levels, they are a key concept to investigate in order to know what impacts older workers. By doing critical discourse analysis of 10 semi-structured interviews with respondents from different organizations, all of which are 50 years or older, this study is able to highlight different age discourses and much more. Through an abductive approach, I was able to examine the presence of existing discourses while also allowing new information to emerge out of the data. This research advances the literature on age discourses by investigating how older employees shape and are shaped by age discourses. Furthermore, it reveals new insights such as the influence of culture on age discourses or the connection between age discourses and ageism, which can be further researched in future studies.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen