Frontier Analysis of Employees'Age Diversity in the Workplace and Its Implications for Management

Abstract

Abstract:

Delaying retirement age, as a result of increased life expectancy in China, is an inevitable choice when faced with an ageing population.The implementation of retirement age delay policy will lead to employees' age in the workplace to be more diverse, and age bias to be more salient, thus further affecting employees' work behaviors.Based on the literature on age diversity and age bias, this pa-per mainly explains the definition and measurement of age diversity and age bias, reveals the relationship between age diversity and age bias, summarizes the factors that influence age bias in the workplace, and clarifies the impact of age diversity and age bias on employ-ees' work behaviors in the individual or group level.Finally, this paper puts forward a cross-level model of the effect of age diversity on employees' work behavior, some suggestions about how to manage age diversity and directions for further researches.

Key words: retirement delay, age diversity, age bias climate, age bias, work behavior

Chen Jianan, Tao Ya, Chen Rui. Frontier Analysis of Employees'Age Diversity in the Workplace and Its Implications for Management[J]. , 2017, 29(7): 148-162.

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