B1 Kirjoitus tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
Guest editorial: Meanings, contexts and future of ageing studies : intersections of age and ageing with organizations (2022)

Ruel, S., Aaltio, I., Römer-Paakkanen, T., & Ozkazanc-Pan, B. (2022). Guest editorial: Meanings, contexts and future of ageing studies : intersections of age and ageing with organizations. Qualitative research in organizations and management, 17(2), 161-170. https://doi.org/10.1108/QROM-06-2022-996

JYU-tekijät tai -toimittajat

Julkaisun tiedot

Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: Ruel, Stefanie; Aaltio, Iiris; Römer-Paakkanen, Tarja; Ozkazanc-Pan, Banu

Lehti tai sarja: Qualitative research in organizations and management

ISSN: 1746-5648

eISSN: 1746-5656

Julkaisuvuosi: 2022

Ilmestymispäivä: 30.05.2022

Volyymi: 17

Lehden numero: 2

Artikkelin sivunumerot: 161-170

Kustantaja: Emerald

Julkaisumaa: Britannia

Julkaisun kieli: englanti

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/QROM-06-2022-996

Julkaisun avoin saatavuus: Ei avoin

Julkaisukanavan avoin saatavuus: 

Julkaisu on rinnakkaistallennettu: https://www.theseus.fi/handle/10024/756328

Tiivistelmä

The intersection of age and ageing with organizations has not been extensively addressed in academic literature. There are studies published on age/ageing and motivation to continue working (e.g. Kooij et al., 2008), multiple jeopardy (King, 1988), such as age intersections with gender, race, sexual orientation, sexual preference, etc. (e.g. Riach et al., 2014), and discrimination and discriminatory practices in organizations (e.g. Duncan and Loretto, 2004; James and Wooten, 2006). More often than not, however, the tone and the approach taken by age and ageing studies replicate determinism and negative connotations that are associated with the elderly (Salminen et al., 2018) or that speak to self-evidence with respect to age and ageing in the workplace (Nelson, 2005). Furthermore, age and ageing in organizations are reflected as a grand narrative which essentializes and universalizes the older worker into one stable, stereotypical understanding or compares this older worker to a younger worker as if this younger individual is the norm to follow within an organizational context. Tied to these under-developed ontological and epistemological notions of the older worker in organizations, the question of how to surface critical meanings around age and ageing, beyond chronological, time-dependent assumptions, remains an unanswered area across the literature. Having said this, there are interesting methodologies that have been used in the past (e.g. Jack et al., 2016; Tomlinson and Colgan, 2014), and there are interesting debates surrounding age, ageing and organizations that underscore a need for discourses and the discursive nature of age and ageing in organizations to be folded into our knowledge (Aaltio et al., 2017; Thomas et al., 2014). Furthermore, there are multiple reflexive subjectivities (Hayes et al., 2016) that are context-specific (Hulko, 2009), along with materially-discursive constructions of age and ageing that are possible (Hearn and Parkin, 2021). This special issue focuses on the critical qualitative methodological paths that explore this intersection of age and ageing with organizations and surfaces some critical meanings around this intersection

YSO-asiasanat: ikääntyminen; ikääntyvät työntekijät; työelämä; organisaatiot; organisaatiotutkimus; työntutkimus; henkilöstöjohtaminen; diskurssi

Liittyvät organisaatiot

OKM-raportointi: Kyllä

Raportointivuosi: 2022