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This report is based on the following requirement - - Background:
- Ongoing demographic, economic and social changes in countries like Australia mean that the workforce of the future will look very different from today’s workforce. Thus, the attraction and retention of skilled diverse employees presents opportunities and challenges for many employers and will be an increasingly important focus for HRM.
- Topic: There are negative stereotypes and attitudes towards older workers?
- Using research evidence from scholarly or peer reviewed journal articles (dated 2005 or later), critically analyse this diversity issue in relation to recruitment and selection practices in the workplace.
Description
This analytical essay will report on the negative stereotypes and attitudes that are directed towards older workers during the recruitment and selection process in Australia. This particular analytical essay is important to the Human Resource Management as it helps in a critical understanding of the Human Resource Management theory processes and their practical implications in this case on the recruitment and selection process of the older workers in Australia. This essay will analyse the discrimination towards old people in the workplace and the negative stereotypes that have continued to dominate the Australian workplace. One word that can summarise these negative stereotypes and attitudes towards older people is Ageism, which has been defined as that process that systematically discriminates and stereotypes against people just because they are old (Broderick, 2010). In other words, all older people are put in one bracket just because they have reached a certain age.
