The Proactive Shift in Managing an Older  Workforce 2009-2017: A Latent Class Analysis of Organizational Policies.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Longitudinal perspectives on how organizations react to workforce aging are missing in the literature. In this study, we fill this gap and ask how organizations deal with older workers, how their approaches change over time, and in which sectors of the economy and types of organizations the changes were most profound.

Research design and methods

Data come from two large-scale employer surveys: 2009 (n = 1,077) and 2017 (n = 1,358), representative for the Netherlands. We use a three-step group-comparison latent class analysis combined with a multinomial logistic model.

Results

We found four clusters of organizations based on their practices regarding older workers-those trying to activate and develop their employees (active), focusing solely o

SUBMITTER: Turek K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7681210 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature