Abstract:

Aging of population is a process that brings along a number of questions and topics for discussions regarding various aspects of life of an ever growing group of older employees. The fact that today’s people live to be older and at the same time healthy without doubt represent of key successes of modern society. However, at the same time the population aging creates a need to alternate ways of work management and welfare systems. The European trend in approach to solution of this newly emerging situation is increasing the retirement age, as a subject of concept of productive aging, when this increasing of retirement age dominates in discussions on social measures regarding aging, across states and welfare systems. An alternative to this approach is a so called concept of active aging – use of active potential of older employees in social activities and on the job market. Bočková, Hastrmanová and Havrdová (2011)

Schauerová (2010) further states that beside the fact that the population is aging, fertility rate is dropping too and organizations are lacking experienced and educated employees. This brings the increase in demand of employees over 50 years of age. The demand for older employees has been individual so far, as such think depends on the nature of the work position.