Aging & Social Change: Tenth Interdisciplinary Conference

Abstract

The phenomenon of an aging workforce continues to grow in importance. Unfortunately, beliefs about older workers (for example, their difficulty adapting to new ways of working) are still deeply rooted in society. Prejudice against this population gives rise to various situations of marginalization and exclusion, including difficulties in finding employment from a certain age and lack of access to continuing education. However, there is little evidence of how older workers perceive workplace innovation and their ability to adapt to changes in work. A study, based on a qualitative methodology, is presented to capture the subjective relationship between aging workers and innovation at work. Its results makes it possible to address the levers that can be considered by an organization concerned to take into account the aging of its workforce in an innovative context.