Organisations are now forced to accommodate the older workers into their milieu
and make some amendments in managing them. Since aged workers are employed
in bigger numbers in the organisations,HR managers find it problematic to manage
the age diversity. Managers work with certain pre-conceived ideas about older
people. There are some long standing stereotypes regarding aging. These include
perceptions like, the older workers have decreased performance, decreased stamina,
are difficult to train, are not flexible, have greater risks and have less capacity to
work. Along with these perceptions there are other assumptions that there are natural
outcomes of getting old e.g. vision, hearing, stamina etc.
However, it is time to dispel with these stereotypical ideas because research has
systematically shown that these assumptions are for the most part false. These biased
views about older workers are considered as responsible for the ongoing discrimination
against them.