Age Stereotypes and Discriminatory Attitudes towards Older Workers: An East-West Comparison

By Warren C.K. Chiu, A. Chan, E. Snape, Tom Redman. 2001

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Subfields: Demography, Gender Studies, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology

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Work engagement and burnout: testing the robustness of the Job Demands-Resources model (2009, background): “This finding challenges manager's assumption that older workers are less able to mobilize job resources and to cope with job demands (eg, Chiu, Chan, Snape, & Redman, 2001 ).”
Stereotypes and Older Workers: The New Zealand Experience (2002, background): “Social Policy Journal of New Zealand • Issue 18 • June 2002 165 Writing more recently, Chiu et al. (2001) argue that an explanation for the mixed results from international studies (setting aside methodological differences) is that jobs and related tasks vary in the extent to which their…”
Age Bias in the Workplace: The Impact of Ageism and Causal Attributions1 (2006, result): “Fourth, although it is unfavorable that our results indicate that age bias does indeed exist, recent research has found that ageism can be reduced (Braithwaite, 2002; Chiu et al., 2001; Ragan & Bowen, 2001) with three broad categories of actions.”
When a “worker” becomes an “older worker”: The effects of age‐related social identity on attitudes towards retirement and work (2008, background): “, 2000), numerous studies have shown that older workers are perceived as less competent and less motivated than their younger colleagues (Chiu et al., 2001; Hummert, 1999).”
Stereotyping Older Workers and Retirement: The Managers' Point of View* (2006, background): “Chiu et al. (2001) showed that the more respondents perceive older workers as being able to adapt to change, the more favourable their views are on the training and promotion of older workers.”
Age, resistance to change, and job performance (2013, background): “This relationship is often assumed to be positive due to common stereotypes existing in the workplace (e.g. Chiu et al., 2001; Van Dalen et al., 2009; Weiss and Maurer, 2004).”
Entrepreneurial intentions in the third age: the impact of perceived age norms (2011, background): “The ‘‘push’’ argumentation, on the other hand, is based on the proposition that older employees are being ‘‘pushed’’ from the traditional labor market by factors such as age discriminatory practices in recruitment, promotion and training as well as a lack of attractive employment options ( Chiu et a”
Employers' attitudes and actions towards the extension of working lives in Europe (2012, background): “…many employers tend to be biased towards older workers, and there is often a lack of corporate focus on older employees that is reflected in an absence of programmes to retain and retrain them (Barth et al., 1993; Chiu et al., 2001; Guillemard et al., 1996; Henkens, 2005; Taylor and Walker, 1998).”