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Occupational Works, Careers and Control
This research article on occupational works, careers, and control shows how ageing is related to the quality of work performed in different organizations. It analyses the connectivity between working conditions and employees’ perception, which varies from one employee to the other depending on the age, working conditions, and employees’ motivation in the working place. Locus of control in this perspective is used to evaluate the individual characteristics and how they tend to provide quality work defending their mental well-being.
Research questions used are what are the relationships that exist between the locus of control at the workplace. This research question is trying to give an overview of how the work the research will try to show how the one can produce good results depending on the individual can work and produce good results depending on the working conditions and his health based on their age. Therefore this research question is trying to give direction on what will be done later. The other research question was on determining how managerial positions and professionalism, coupled with training, can lead to good performance by the experienced employees whose age is relatively higher (Mariangela & Boccardi pg. 25). This research question gave the researcher insight into how an individual employee’s age and experience can affect performance. One who has worked for an extended period regardless of being older may produce better results.
The researcher uses the biological aging theory because it is related to deterioration when one is growing. This one is nearly related to the work performed on how the productivity in industry declines or improves when the ages of the workers go up. The ageing process is presented to be unavoidable by the use of this theory. Therefore, when applying it in the workplace, it will make it possible to consider the aging of the employees so that there is no worry about the decrease of performance of some employees in case of a decline in the work performed. The employees’ roles based on social aging should change as the roles that young employees can perform the old cannot and especially the heavy tasks (Baltes pg. 86). The aged employees need functions that require much input of knowledge and skill other than physical energy.
The type of data used was the primary data collected from different companies that included the evaluation of the employee’s performance based on different age settings in various companies. The research found that employees’ performance was dependant on the locus of control, professionalism, and aging contributed to the work performed. The employees’ retirement was related to aging matters. This research was not well detailed since it failed to focus on how young employees can perform and their professionalism about improved performance.
The Psychology of Control and Aging
Edited by
MARGRET M. BALTES
Free University of Berlin
PAUL B. BALTES
Max Planck Institute for
Human Development and Education
Abstract
In the present chapter, we report the results of a series of empirical studies in which locus of control is analyzed in connection with different occupational careers, working conditions, employees ‘ perceptions, and employees’ evaluations of their work. A critique of the state of extant empirical research is used to consider theoretical issues. Following a discussion of the various ways in which the occupational domain can be differentiated concerning objective control possibilities (i.e., in terms of restrictiveness), an environmentally oriented concept of control awareness is presented. This new approach also determines deterministic and interactional control awareness forms in contrast to the well-known distinction between internal and external locus of control. Finally, the developmental course of control awareness is discussed in terms of its relationship to occupational restrictiveness and its significance for retirement.
Aging as an Opportunity or Threat for Management
The research questions under these articles were how to manage, give support and retain the increasing workforce that was aging. Such research questions gave a clear overview of how the workforce’s area the research will be focused on. The research question was used to provide direction on aging in the workplace context and its implications in business management. The aging workforce population was seen to be increasing at a higher rate than the generation in the workforce. Another question was that this aging would contribute positively as an opportunity or threaten the organization (Martinson & Berridge pg. 60). This was giving an insight into the particular area of focus.
This work’s quality was not the same since it used only secondary data of other articles knowing that secondary data is not always of high quality and biased. The primary information is the only valid data to be used in the research. The authors’ theoretical findings on the academic results, I believe are not the accurate interpretation of the data because they used only secondary sources that they were analyzing. This research was not complete as it covered the aspect of age in terms of gender which I very sure varies from male to female, and their impacts on workplace performance are different. An alternative theoretical perspective finding I would take the theory targeting the whole setting, and this theory should be separating both males and females and looking at the implications of the aging depending on each gender at different ages at the level of the societal, individual, and organisational level.
Based on the data, I would prefer collecting data from scratch, where I will use more of the primary data instead of the secondary data to arrive at better results that are valid. This is because the preliminary data, when well analyzed by using both qualitative and quantitative methods, will give better results of the research. Therefore my primary sources, when coupled with a few secondary sources, provide better results than those offered by the article using only the secondary sources. The magazine article’s findings indicated that the aging had been presented in a manner that is in deterministic tone or, in other words, at least in a neutral tone and passive mode (André’s et al., pg. 10). This article focused on the issues and actions relating to aging and impacts it brings in the workplace at both individuals and the societal level. At a basic individual level, aging was discussed mainly based on changes related to work capability and functioning. As actors, the individuals who were aging were primarily responsible for controlling and obliged to manage the effects that were as a result of their process of aging. The discussion on aging at the organizational level was minimal and very narrow. To a more considerable extent, it lacked the discussion based on the roles of the firm or organization as they were responsible actors. The aging, therefore, at the societal level and individual level, had impacts on the performance of the employees. The aging population was believed to possess many skills and knowledge despite their lack of substantial physical energy. The finding tends to be the s they are all addressing aging and their impacts at the workplace. Their contributions cannot be ignored since the aging process cannot be avoided as it is real. Therefore the issue concerning aging, both social and psychological aging, should be considered, and its contribution and implications are taken care of (Salminen et al., pg. 50). The organizations are seen taking a broader and active role in giving support to the older employees. They a longer working, and professional careers that were very productive. This research was focused on showing the opportunities and benefits that tend to exists when utilizing the aging work force. Aging research could give promotion to very media publishing level and also help in the application of the knowledge. The reports has boosted my knowledge and understand that social aging focuses on individual changes in role and also relationships in different networks including friends and relatives and in other formal organizations and especially in the work place. Therefore I have gained and an insight on the perspective of the aging and its implication in wok performance.
Aging as a Topic in a Business Magazine:
An Opportunity or Threat for Management?
Abstract
Recently, research on aging in the work-life context from the perspective of how to manage, support and retain an aging workforce has increased among management scholars, and therefore is contributing to the current societal need to extend work careers. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the articles discussing aging in the work-life context in the Finnish business magazine Talouselämä (Economic Life) during the years 2002–2017.
Work Cited
Salminen, Hanna Maria, Qian Wang, and Iiris Aaltio. “Aging as a topic in a business magazine: an opportunity or threat for management?.” Baltic Journal of Management (2019) :pg.50..https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/BJM-05-2018-0180/full/html
Baltes, Margret M., and Paul B. Baltes, eds. The psychology of control and aging. L. Erlbaum Associates, 1986.http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.670.2653&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Losada-Baltar, Andrés, et al. ““We are staying at home.” Association of self-perceptions of aging, personal and family resources, and loneliness with psychological distress during the lock-down period of COVID-19.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 76.2 (2021): e10-e16.
Boccardi, Mariangela, and Virginia Boccardi. “Psychological wellbeing and healthy aging: focus on telomeres.” Geriatrics 4.1 (2019): 25.
Martinson, Marty, and Clara Berridge. “Successful aging and its discontents: A systematic review of the social gerontology literature.” The gerontologist 55.1 (2015): 58-69.