Conceptualizing Age-Friendliness in Workplaces: Proposing a New Multidimensional Model

By: Eppler-Hattab R., Meshoulam I., Doron I.
Published in: Gerontologist
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Creating age-friendly workplace environments is considered a central organizational approach for addressing the challeng es of supporting an aging and older workforce. However, there are no concrete definitions or theoretical frameworks that explain the full meaning, assumptions, and basic processes of this concept. This article critically reviews the conceptualizations of the age-friendly workplace in the fields of organizational psychology and gerontology, and proposes (a) a new working definition of the concept, and (b) a multidimensional model that consists of a typology of age-friendly dimensions, representing the implications of human resource policies and practices that demonstrate the ways in which organizational climate and organizational culture support aging workers. This framework enables a better understanding of the organizational-occupational realities within an aging and older labor market, and thus serves as an effective foundation upon which future organizational measurements can be constructed. © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. All rights reserved.