Abstract:

The article determines whether diversity-management-oriented activities addressed to employees above 50 years of age, which are carried out at enterprises, have an impact on obtaining certain benefits with regards to managing human resources. The formulated research hypothesis assumes that the implementation of the concept of diversity management on behalf of employees above 50 years of age does not provide the particular benefits stemming from the implementation of such solutions. Two groups of enterprises have been compared. The first group, consisting of 49 people, was that of enterprises, which did not carry out activities in the scope of diversity with regards to older employees. The second group, consisted of 60 enterprises, which contained in the scope of diversity effofls, inter alia, the group of older employees above 50 years of age. For the purpose of verifying the research hypothesis the Mann—Whitney U test (also called the Wilcoxon rank-sum test) has been applied, at an assumed level of significance of p=0.05.