Pratiques de gestion et rapports d’âge en milieu de travail
The aging workforce and its potential consequences are causes for concern. To date, planners, like researchers in various disciplines, have tended to merge this issue with the increased presence of older or aging workers - two adjectives that are generally used to describe workers aged 45 or older -...
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Institut de Recherche Robert-Sauvé en Santé et en Sécurité du Travail (IRSST)
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| description | The aging workforce and its potential consequences are causes for concern. To date, planners, like researchers in various disciplines, have tended to merge this issue with the increased presence of older or aging workers - two adjectives that are generally used to describe workers aged 45 or older - in workplaces. During an exploratory study conducted within the Quebec public service, we decided to follow an entirely different path by examining how various actors in workplaces (employees and managers) construct and deconstruct age identities. The analysis shows direct links between these identities and work organization, more specifically management practices. The results suggest that relationships among employees of different ages, as well as the characteristics they assign to each other, are constructed during management practices. They prompt the review of the a priori of an "intergenerational gap" that already exists in society and that turns the workplace into a place where this gap is simply expressed. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-13d0e9ca03614e64ae1bf484f9589acb2025-01-09T16:02:30ZengInstitut de Recherche Robert-Sauvé en Santé et en Sécurité du Travail (IRSST)Perspectives Interdisciplinaires sur le Travail et la Santé1481-93842005-05-017210.4000/pistes.3213Pratiques de gestion et rapports d’âge en milieu de travailYolande PelchatAndré CampeauJulie BradetteMichel VézinaThe aging workforce and its potential consequences are causes for concern. To date, planners, like researchers in various disciplines, have tended to merge this issue with the increased presence of older or aging workers - two adjectives that are generally used to describe workers aged 45 or older - in workplaces. During an exploratory study conducted within the Quebec public service, we decided to follow an entirely different path by examining how various actors in workplaces (employees and managers) construct and deconstruct age identities. The analysis shows direct links between these identities and work organization, more specifically management practices. The results suggest that relationships among employees of different ages, as well as the characteristics they assign to each other, are constructed during management practices. They prompt the review of the a priori of an "intergenerational gap" that already exists in society and that turns the workplace into a place where this gap is simply expressed.https://journals.openedition.org/pistes/3213workagemanagement practicespublic administrationQuébec |
| spellingShingle | Yolande Pelchat André Campeau Julie Bradette Michel Vézina Pratiques de gestion et rapports d’âge en milieu de travail Perspectives Interdisciplinaires sur le Travail et la Santé work age management practices public administration Québec |
| title | Pratiques de gestion et rapports d’âge en milieu de travail |
| title_full | Pratiques de gestion et rapports d’âge en milieu de travail |
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| title_short | Pratiques de gestion et rapports d’âge en milieu de travail |
| title_sort | pratiques de gestion et rapports d age en milieu de travail |
| topic | work age management practices public administration Québec |
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