Employment of Older Persons from a Management Point of View

Abstract

Both in the literature and in management practice it is agreed that a person’s age in years is only to a very limited extent a suitable criterion for the definition of what constitutes an older employee (OE). The reason for this is that the age at which a person should start to be considered “older” depends not only on the age of the observer but also on the age-expectations prevailing in given vocational groups (e.g. airline stewardesses, professional sportsmen).

The author gratefully acknowledges critical comments of J. Deters aud U. Stirn to an earlier draft of this paper.