“You are to Old (Not) to Learn” - A Critical Reconsideration of “Older Employees”
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| Title: | “You are to Old (Not) to Learn” - A Critical Reconsideration of “Older Employees” |
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| Authors: | Teichmann, Malte, Matthiessen, Julia, Vladova, Gergana |
| Publisher Information: | Weizenbaum Institute |
| Publication Year: | 2019 |
| Subject Terms: | Economics, Human Resources Management, Labor Market Research, lifetime work period, stereotype, digitalization, qualification requirements, advanced vocational education, didactics, age-specific factors, elderly worker, Wirtschaft, Arbeitsmarktforschung, Personalwesen, Stereotyp, berufliche Weiterbildung, Lebensarbeitszeit, Digitalisierung, Didaktik, älterer Arbeitnehmer, Qualifikationsanforderungen, altersspezifische Faktoren, 330 Wirtschaft |
| Description: | Todays working environment faces the major challenges of demographical change and digitalization. Deficit-oriented stereotypes question the ability of older employees to keep pace with these technological innovations. Consequently, the elderly are perceived as less valuable for the company leading to fewer vocational training offers. Facing this dilemma, this contribution aims at uncovering the prevailing stereotypes against older employees and present a new approach of looking at older generations. Focusing existing experienced-based knowledge instead of assumed deficits as a starting point for further didactical work and research, basics of age-appropriate vocational training get pointed out in order to raise target group specific potentials in the context of the challenges of digitalization. ; This work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) (grant no.: 16DII111, 16DII112, 16DII113, 16DII114, 16DII115, 16DII116, 16DII117 – „Deutsches Internet-Institut“) |
| Document Type: | conference object |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/2.32; Weizenbaum Conference Proceedings; Teichmann, M., Matthiessen, J., & Vladova, G. (2019). „You are to Old (Not) to Learn“—A Critical Reconsideration of „Older Employees“. Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019: Challenges of Digital Inequality, 85–88. https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/2.12 |
| DOI: | 10.34669/WI.CP/2.12 |
| Availability: | https://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/116 https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.CP/2.12 |
| Rights: | open access ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.F863C255 |
| Database: | BASE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | Todays working environment faces the major challenges of demographical change and digitalization. Deficit-oriented stereotypes question the ability of older employees to keep pace with these technological innovations. Consequently, the elderly are perceived as less valuable for the company leading to fewer vocational training offers. Facing this dilemma, this contribution aims at uncovering the prevailing stereotypes against older employees and present a new approach of looking at older generations. Focusing existing experienced-based knowledge instead of assumed deficits as a starting point for further didactical work and research, basics of age-appropriate vocational training get pointed out in order to raise target group specific potentials in the context of the challenges of digitalization. ; This work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) (grant no.: 16DII111, 16DII112, 16DII113, 16DII114, 16DII115, 16DII116, 16DII117 – „Deutsches Internet-Institut“) |
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| DOI: | 10.34669/WI.CP/2.12 |