The Role of Seniors in the Intergenerational Cooperaion within Organizations

Šestáková Monika ()
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Šestáková Monika: City University Bratislava, College of Management, Panónska Cesta 17, 851 04Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Research Papers Faculty of Materials Science and Technology Slovak University of Technology, 2019, vol. 27, issue s1, 70-75

Abstract: The basic objective of the paper is to show that seniors (even in the age 70+) need not be treated just as a burden or as an object of social care and health care (which is, of course, important as well), but that they can be an important production factor in the traditional meaning of the concept in economic theory and can form a valuable component of an intellectual capital in a knowledge-based society. Objective reason of the growing interest in these issues is the aging of population during the last decades (especially in developed countries) and a greater availability of highly skilled seniors, that although meet the requirements to go retired, prefer to work longer and seek in the work (similarly as during their previous active years) a way of selfactualization and a source of vital energy. Keeping employed these seniors can be also economically effective for organizations.

Keywords: Intergenerational cooperation at the workplace; role of working seniors; intergenerational knowledge transfer; economic benefits to organization from employing seniors; specific aspects of the intergenerational cooperation at universities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.2478/rput-2019-0044

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