Age-Related Human Resource Management Policies and Practices: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Conceptualizations

• DOI: 10.1093/workar/waab024
• Publication Date: 2021-08-12T19:10:28Z
• Authors: Stephan A Boehm; Heike Schröder; Matthijs Bal
• Keywords: Employability

Abstract Due to the demographic change in age, societies, firms, and individuals struggle with need postpone retirement while keeping up motivation, performance, health throughout employees’ working life. Organizations, specifically Human Resource Management (HRM) practices they design implement, take a central role this process. Being influenced by macro-level trends such as new legislation, organizational HRM affect outcomes productivity employability both at firm individual level of analysis. This editorial introduces Special Issue on “Age-related Policies Practices” conducting an interdisciplinary literature review. We offer organizing framework that spans macro-, meso-, discusses major antecedents, boundary conditions, age-related practices. Further, we propose typology discuss dimensions versus bundles dealing aging more age-diverse workforce. Building these considerations, introduce eight articles included special issue. Finally, taking stock our review studies presented here, deduct some recommendations for future research field HRM.