Action cards

Your collection of cards

You can download, print, or browse through these cards online. Each card is designed to trigger and provoke discussion about age management in your organisation. You can use them in any order you wish and we believe, these could be a valuable tool for your age management adventure. You may notice that each card belongs to a specific category. To learn how to take most of these categories we recommend you to read through this article.


Values, attitudes and motivation

Psychological dimension of aging

Are you aware of changes in cognitive performance area, which on one hand are the slowing down of cognitive processes when aging, on the other hand offer increased knowledge and (life) experience? How can you use this as an advantage?

Health and functional capacities

Physiological dimension of aging

Are you aware of physical changing process of the human being – such as the decrease of adaptability or the increase of vulnerability of the organism as they get older? Is your work environment aware of these changes?

Values, attitudes and motivation

Social dimension of aging

Are you aware of socially defined roles and functions or certain social concepts of life phases and styles? Were you aware of the importance of this outlook when creating your company strategy?

Work, work community & leadership

Life-phase management

Each generation expects a different framework than the previous generation. The aim is to retain existing employees, increase qualified and empathetic new employees and support them in pursuing their careers. Is life-phase management an approach you have tried?

Work, work community & leadership

Formulate a clear strategic vision

Does your vision gives the intention and direction for the future culture change?

Work, work community & leadership

Display top-management commitment

Is top of the organization in favour of the culture change?

Work, work community & leadership

Modify the organization to support organizational change

Do you identify what current systems, policies, procedures and rules need to be changed so alignment with the new values and desired culture can be achieved?

Work, work community & leadership

Develop ethical and legal sensitivity among colleagues

How do you identify obstacles of change and resistant employees, + acknowledge and reward employee improvement?

Work, work community & leadership

Checking the waters

Do you feel the organizational structure of your company needs to change?

Work, work community & leadership

Building equality

Do you have anti-discrimination legislation guidelines incorporated to your internal policies?

Work, work community & leadership

Ergonomics or working conditions

Identify positive and negative working conditions related to age management.

Work, work community & leadership

Ageism

Can you identify socially (un)responsible behaviour of your organization towards aging employees?

Work, work community & leadership

Age diversity

Can you identify benefits of age diversity in your company? Can you multiply and reproduce them?

Work, work community & leadership

Discrimination

Can you name possible types of discrimintion in workplace?

Work, work community & leadership

Eliminate discrimination

How are you eliminating discrimination at your company?

Competence

Lifelong education

How big is lifelong education principles and career development at your company?

Health and functional capacities

Safety and health protection

How do you support occupational safety and health protection in your workplace?

Work, work community & leadership

Flexible forms of work

What kind of flexibility and certainity your company offers?

Work, work community & leadership

Work ability Index

Does your company use Work ability Index?

Health and functional capacities

Physically demanding work

Do you decrease requirements for physically demanding work should with increasing age, especially for women?

Work, work community & leadership

Strengths of workers

Are you driving advantage from the age-specific strengths of your employees?

Work, work community & leadership

Individual career management

How can you apply individual management as a key tool for aging workers?

Health and functional capacities

Support for the health

Place strong emphasis and intensification of support for the health of aging workers, including responsibility for the life of individual workers

Health and functional capacities

Prevention of illness and injuries

How can you invest in the prevention of illness and injuries at the workplace

Health and functional capacities

Reduce disease and illness

Reduce the impact of the disease on work capacity and prevent occupational illness and accidents

Values, attitudes and motivation

Value system

Take into account the value system of workers in managing changes in working life

Work, work community & leadership

Work environment adjustment

Promote changes in the work environment, especially for older people in the workplace

Work, work community & leadership

Workload reduction

Introduce fairer methods of reducing the workload of aging workers

Values, attitudes and motivation

Prepare for retirement

Prepare workers to retire gradually over the last years before retirement