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