The Network vision
- To develop and extend the concept of age management to a common understanding as a mechanism to successfully embrace demographic changes facing the labour market across the life-course.
- To promote age management in practice at the levels of the individual, enterprise and society.
The definition
- Age management promotes longer and better quality working life across the life-course in a way that is favourable to employers as well as individuals and society.
Age management in practice
Age management
- is a shared responsibility for individuals, enterprises and society and takes place in a number of different settings
- is an approach to managing, deploying and developing human resources and the design and organisation of their work in the interest of economic, organisational and individual success
- has a special, yet inclusive focus on the aging workforce across the life-course and is characterised by a multidisciplinary, holistic and evidence-based approach
A scientifically based approach for practical application
Age Management I Sverige AB – AMSAB – offers employers a scientific approach to Age Management. It is based on the many years of research conducted at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH).
The AMSAB method has four fundamental assumptions.
- Benefit aspect – managers are rational and use knowledge when necessary. The solutions are always determined by the specific needs and conditions of individual managers when they exercise their leadership
- Managers` attitudes and values in relation to their own and their employees` aging can be changed in a positive direction.
- The most effective way to influence attitudes and values is to increase the knowledge about the correlations involving age, work capacity and leadership.
- Such knowledge can be used in daily practical management, but it also places demands on each manager`s ability to take advantage of and strengthen the work capacity of each individual