Age management - Le contexte belge

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Age management: a new

challenge for HRM?

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Challenges

 _{More efficiency (means):}

 _{People implication}

 _{Organizational commitment}

 _{Workers satisfaction / special needs}  _{Intergenerational cooperation}

 _{Knowledge and expertise transfert}  _{Competencies Management}

 _{More effectiveness (goals):}

 _{Relations and satisfaction of customers / users}

 _{Products and services linked with the needs of people of different}

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Paradox ….

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_{Some academic researchers think that}

age don’t generate differential behaviors

/ age is not a criteria for HRM

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_{In the field, managers said that they}

observe differential behaviors between

the generations / they don’t understand

some generations, like Y generations !

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Looking for difference …

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• < 30

• youth

• 30- 50

• mediors

50

 seniors

Chronological age

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Generations approach (values,

history, norms)

Y > 1978-1981 X 1962-1964 1978-1981 Baby-boomers (<1962-1964)

• Work sense

• Worlife balance

• Gender / linked

between sex

• Organisational

structure

• Workforce

market

• Internationalisa

tion /

mondialisation

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Living same events …

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_War

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_{After-war (growing)}

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_{May 68 – 70th}

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_{Crisis 1973-1980}

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_{Growing – mondialisation / IT time}

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_{WTC – 2011 : terrorism / religion radicalisation}

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_{> 2008 : financial crisis / social network}

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Cycle Life

<35 ans 35-50 +50 (seniors) Single X X X Couple without children X X X Couple with children <12 X X X Couple with children >12 X X Others families (older parents, etc.) X X X

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Implication for HRM

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_{Age management}

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_{Some specificities / but also some similarities}

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_{General / specific needs (linked with age, cycle life, etc.)}

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_{Intersectionnality : age / generation}

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_{X gender (W /M)}

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_{X socio-culturel class / race}

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_{X level of qualification}

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_{Legislation and socio-culturel context}

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Références

 _{Pichault, F., & Pleyers, M. (2010). Pour en finir avec la génération Y...}

Enquête sur une représentation managériale. Paper presented at the

Nouveaux comportements, nouvelle GRH, St Malo.

 _{Tremblay, D. G. (2005). De la conciliation emploi-famille à une}

politique des temps sociaux. Montréal: Presses de l’Université du

Québec.

 _{Twenge, J. M. (2010). A review of the empirical evidence on}

generational differences in work attitudes. . Journal of Business and

Psychology, 25(2), 201-210.

 _{Vendramin, P. (2007). Temps, rythmes de travail et conciliation des}

temps sociaux Rapport de l’enquête « Temps et travail », . Namur: FTU Namur, Belgique.