“the older I get the less I trust people” constructing age identities in the workplace

Jo Angouri

doi:10.1075/prag.22.2.04ang

“the older I get the less I trust people” constructing age identities in the workplace

Pragmatics ◽

10.1075/prag.22.2.04ang ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 255-277 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Jo Angouri

Keyword(s):

Age Differences ◽

Real Life ◽

White Collar ◽

Age Discrimination ◽

Clear Cut ◽

Older Employees ◽

Negotiation Of Identity ◽

Complex Process ◽

Medium Enterprise ◽

The Uk

In 2006 laws banning age discrimination came into effect in the UK. Even though unions seem to suggest that ‘age’ is a very common form of discrimination, it does not typically attract (at least as yet) the same attention as other more widely discussed cases. Age discrimination is typically associated with discourses around an ‘ageing workforce’, however it affects both younger and older employees. Looking closer at ‘ageing’ discourses it becomes apparent that the boundaries between ‘old’ and ‘young’ are not as clear cut as a first reading would suggest. Further to this, recent sociolinguistic research has repeatedly shown that (age or other) identity is not something people ‘have’ or ‘are’ but something people ‘do’ (e.g., Holmes 2006; Coupland 2009). Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to discuss and problematise the ways in which employees construct age identities in the complex system of white-collar workplaces. The paper draws on recordings of real life routine meeting data featuring primarily employees in a small/medium enterprise (SMEs). Special attention is paid here to one member of the team, Cynthia the youngest member of staff. The discussion also draws on interview data in order to further analyse perceptions and representations of ‘age differences’ in this context. The analysis shows the complex process of negotiation of identity where chronological age is related to ‘expertise’ and ‘experience’ and becomes an important resource participants draw upon in the process of self -and other- positioning.

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Ageism and employment: controversies, ambiguities and younger people's perceptions

Ageing and Society ◽

10.1017/s0144686x00007741 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 279-302 ◽

Cited By ~ 76

Author(s):

WENDY LORETTO ◽

COLIN DUNCAN ◽

PHIL J. WHITE

Keyword(s):

Older Workers ◽

Significant Proportion ◽

Empirical Work ◽

Age Discrimination ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Negative Stereotypes ◽

Business Studies ◽

Older Employees ◽

Discrimination In Employment ◽

The Uk

This paper traces the emergence and evolution of the concept of ageism with respect to employment matters in the UK, and challenges some features of the emerging concept as defective and undermining of efforts to eradicate age discrimination in employment. Also revealed is some loosening in recent years of the association of the term ‘ageism’ with older employees. This latter observation informed the focus of our empirical work, which examined the views of 460 Business Studies students concerning age and employment. A significant proportion had experienced ageism directly in employment, and a large majority favoured the introduction of legislative protection against age discrimination, with blanket coverage irrespective of age. Though negative stereotypes regarding older workers were by no means uncommon among the sample, little firm evidence emerged of intergenerational tensions or resentment towards older people. The concluding section considers the policy implications of our findings, including the relative merits of weighting policy responses towards older employees. It is argued that initiatives restricted in this way, and further constrained by commercial imperatives and macro-economic objectives, are likely to prove divisive and self-defeating as a means of combating ageism.

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Faculty Opinions recommendation of Management of COPD in the UK primary-care setting: an analysis of real-life prescribing patterns.

Faculty Opinions – Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature ◽

10.3410/f.727673334.793532758 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Ravi Kalhan ◽

Sharon R Rosenberg

Keyword(s):

Primary Care ◽

Care Setting ◽

Primary Care Setting ◽

Real Life ◽

Prescribing Patterns ◽

The Uk

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Exploring International and Inter-Sector Differences of Social Enterprises in the UK and India

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13115870 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (11) ◽

pp. 5870

Author(s):

Philipp Kruse

Keyword(s):

Social Entrepreneurship ◽

Social Enterprise ◽

Social Enterprises ◽

Future Research ◽

Shape Features ◽

Qualitative And Quantitative ◽

Clear Cut ◽

The One ◽

Definition Of ◽

The Uk

Social Entrepreneurship (SE) describes a new entrepreneurial form combining the generation of financial and social value. In recent years, research interest in SE increased in various disciplines with a particular focus on the characteristics of social enterprises. Whereas a clear-cut definition of SE is yet to be found, there is evidence that culture and economy affect and shape features of SE activity. In addition, sector-dependent differences are supposed. Building on Institutional Theory and employing a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach, this study sheds light on the existence of international and inter-sector differences by examining 161 UK and Indian social enterprises. A content analysis and analyses of variance were employed and yielded similarities as well as several significant differences on an international and inter-sector level, e.g., regarding innovativeness and the generation of revenue. The current study contributes to a more nuanced picture of the SE landscape by comparing social enterprise characteristics in a developed and a developing country on the one hand and different sectors on the other hand. Furthermore, I highlight the benefits of jointly applying qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Future research should pay more attention to the innate heterogeneity among social enterprises and further consolidate and extend these findings.

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Animals in Dreams of Children, Adolescents, and Adults: The UK Library Study

Imagination Cognition and Personality ◽

10.1177/0276236620960634 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 027623662096063

Author(s):

Michael Schredl ◽

Mark Blagrove

Keyword(s):

Empirical Research ◽

Life Experiences ◽

Real Life ◽

Media Consumption ◽

Continuity Hypothesis ◽

Future Studies ◽

Adolescents And Adults ◽

The Uk

Animal dreams have fascinated mankind for ages. Empirical research indicated that children dream more often about animals than adults and dogs, cats, and horses are the most frequent animals that appear within dreams. Moreover, most dreamer-animal interactions are negative. The present study included 4849 participants (6 to 90 yrs. old) reporting 2716 most recent dreams. Overall, 18.30% of these dreams included animals with children reporting more animal dreams that adolescents and adults. The most frequent animals were again dogs, horses, and cats; about 20% of the dream animals were in fact pets of the dreamers. About 30% of the dream animals showed bizarre features, e.g., metamorphosing into humans or other animals, bigger than in real life, or can talk. Taken together, the findings support the continuity hypothesis of dreaming but also the idea that dreams reflect waking-life emotions in a metaphorical and dramatized way. Future studies should focus on eliciting waking-life experiences with animals, e.g., having a pet, animal-related media consumption, and relating these to experiences with animals in dreams.

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The use of real life contexts in the CTA: Some unintended consequences

Pythagoras ◽

10.4102/pythagoras.v0i69.42 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 0 (69) ◽

Author(s):

Sarah Bansilal

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Real Life ◽

Unintended Consequences ◽

Assessment Programme ◽

Assessment Tasks ◽

The Usa ◽

The Common ◽

The Uk ◽

Assessment Activities

The Common Tasks for Assessment (CTA) was a new assessment programme that was introduced in 2002 in South Africa for all Grade 9 learners. The purpose of this paper is to articulate some concerns around the use of contextualised assessment activities in the CTA. The study reported here was carried out in 2003. Data for the study was generated from lesson observations and interviews with the participant teachers and groups of learners. It is argued that although the intentions behind the design of the CTA are well meaning and noble, there are in fact some learners who may be unintentionally disadvantaged by the design of the CTA which uses an extended context as a source for all the assessment tasks. In this paper two unintended consequences of using ‘real life’ contexts are identified and the implications of these are discussed, by linking the observations to research carried out in the UK and the USA.

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The Market for Corporate Control: Value, Stakeholders, and Governance

Principles of Takeover Regulation ◽

10.1093/oso/9780199659555.003.0001 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

David Kershaw

Keyword(s):

Empirical Evidence ◽

Corporate Control ◽

Short Term ◽

The Public ◽

Analysis And Evaluation ◽

Control Value ◽

Clear Cut ◽

Market For Corporate Control ◽

Empirical Context ◽

The Uk

This Chapter introduces the market for corporate control and provides theoretical and empirical context about the functioning and effects of the market for corporate control. Ideally such context should inform the analysis and evaluation of the Takeover Code’s regulation of the UK market for corporate control. However, as the Chapter shows, neither our understanding of the likely effects of the market for corporate control on companies, boards, shareholders and stakeholders, nor the state of empirical evidence provide clear cut guidance on how to regulate the market for corporate control. The Chapter considers evidence on the value effects of takeovers and shows that evidence from the short term market response to announced takeovers supports claims that takeovers in aggregate generate value, but the longer term evidence is more mixed and inconclusive. It also considers the methodological limitations of both the short term and long term evidence. The Chapter then proceeds to consider the effect of the market for corporate control on stakeholders. It explores the commonly held view that takeovers are detrimental for employees but finds again that the empirical evidence is inconclusive, although the theoretical case that takeover activity may undermine employee investment in the business remains compelling. The Chapter then explores the role of the market for corporate control as a governance device. It is often assumed that the market for corporate control acts as a disciplinary device holding managers to account, but as the Chapter shows the disciplinary effects work differently and less precisely than regulators and the public debate commonly assume. The Chapter also shows that such indirect effects may also mould management and board behaviour in economically suboptimal ways, which the Chapter considers in the context of the debate about the possible short term orientation of UK boards.

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12. Age discrimination

Employment Law ◽

10.1093/he/9780198806752.003.0012 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 232-240

Author(s):

Stephen Taylor ◽

Astra Emir

Keyword(s):

Age Discrimination ◽

Retirement Age ◽

Length Of Service ◽

The Future ◽

The Law ◽

The Uk

This chapter deals with age discrimination law under the Equality Act. It discusses the history and background of age discrimination law, protected characteristics, prohibited conduct on grounds of age discrimination, and key debates about how the law operates and how it might be improved in the future. There is no longer a default retirement age in the UK. If an employer wishes to retire an employee at a particular age, he has to have objective reasons for choosing that age. Unlike other protected characteristics, direct age discrimination can be justified, and there are a number of exceptions, such as length of service benefits, which have been kept from the Age Regulations of 2006.

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Laterality, gender and age differences in estimated frequency and actual registration of people with congenital upper limb absences

Prosthetics and Orthotics International ◽

10.3109/03093649809164487 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 224-229 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

C. M. Fraser

Keyword(s):

Age Differences ◽

Upper Limb ◽

Postal Survey ◽

Congenital Absence ◽

Number Of Children ◽

Registration Rate ◽

Gender And Age ◽

Gender And Age Differences ◽

And Gender ◽

The Uk

Initial analyses from a survey of people with unilateral upper limb congenital absence registered with the Cambridge Disablement Services Centre (DSC) indicated differences related to laterality and gender. A postal survey of all DSCs in the UK was conducted and support for these findings was provided from the analysis of the information supplied by the 25 DSCs who could provide data in the format requested. Comparing statistics for the UK population with those gained from the 25 DSCs, estimates for the number of children and adults who should be registered with DSCs in the UK are made. From these figures it is suggested that the non-registration rate for adults with a congenital absence of an upper limb could be as high as 64%.

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