Age and Health Management Practices: Impact on Modern Organizations

Current demographic changes are causing organizations to become increasingly diverse. A growing body of research provides a solid theoretical and empirical basis for understanding the reality of an aging workforce, however, there has been little direct research into how organizations could and should utilize the knowledge of differently aged workers and thereby capitalize on the benefits of age diversity. More research is needed to investigate how organizations can customize age management practices such as recruitment policies, retirement plans, training, ergonomics, flexible work practices and health management practices in the work environment to ensure that older workers can still utilize their strengths to perform successfully while remaining healthy. Despite the growing relevance of this phenomenon, the research on age diversity from different organizational perspectives and its implications on modern organizations remains scarce.

Therefore, the crucial goal is to understand how older workers can be successfully included and integrated as active, productive and healthy members of the workforce. In a similar vein, as the number of older adults is projected to increase, the working population is at the same time expected to significantly decrease in the very near future. Therefore, it is integral for modern organizations to implement necessary changes in age management practices and health management practices as well as taking into consideration the accompanied challenges that are concerning the participation of older workers on the labor market. In contemporary times, while examining age management and health management practices it is also essential to explore the potential beneficial impact of modern digital technologies that older workers can utilize in their working environment to their advantage. Our research focuses on the organizational level, which can derive several important insights for managers and leaders in modern organizations in relation to their aging workforce from the age management perspective. In addition, we specifically address also the effect of working longer on the health and well-being of individuals.

This Research Topic focuses on novel research on age management and health management-related practices and their impact on modern organizations. We welcome the submission of original research articles covering but not limited to the following proposed subtopics:
• Age Management Practices
• Health Management Practices
• Healthy Working Conditions
• Active Aging
• Aging Workforce
• Psychological Theories of Aging
• Ageism at Workplace
• Digital Technologies and Digital Transformation and Aging Workforce
• Work Redesign
• Ergonomics
• Age-Supportive Human Resource Practices
• Knowledge Management and Aging Workforce
• Age Diversity
• Leadership Practices and Aging Workforce
• Healthy Work-life Balance