In the West, the announcement of the candidate search,
indicating age limits may result in the employer with legal action. We are all
different.
A little research online sites and newspapers, help in
finding employees or work, showed that 90% of all ads can serve as grounds for
accusations of age discrimination. Drinking age in Ukraine and civilized
countries differ radically. For Western companies is quite normal to take on
professional work in the age of 50 and even 60 years. In our country, this is
problematic. Drinking age of employees in this country similar to the situation
in some Asian firms, which can not be subordinated to senior executives.
new thinking
In most cases, employers do not motivate the age limit. The
real reasons we can only guess.
People who lived in the two eras, internally tied to the
Soviet time, and not always willing to work in the company, the leading
business of international standards of capitalist markets and strictly focused
on financial performance. Thus, the age indirectly affect a person's employment
opportunities and significantly reduces the number of companies in which he
could work. Examples include - replacement of posts of director of a large
plant (customer requirement - not older than 50 years, but preferably - younger
candidates), head of the oil company, as well as the general director of
Petrochemical Holding (no older than 45 years). customers Motivation is the same
- we need people with a new mentality.
Unlike Western companies, our most take "too
young" (by international standards) director general, what is "too
old". This can affect the quality of leadership, because some management
skills are acquired only with age. As a result - many of today's young
managers, by accident ascended to senior management positions, completely
forget that they have to manage the first people, and only then processes and
financial flows.
Another duty of the employer motif that brings the voting
age - elderly people will not be able to fit in to form a team of young
managers.
Women's issue
Most consultants believe that the age limit to be even more
likely if the candidates - a woman. Only in some cases, due to the specific
positions necessarily need a man (for example, loader, driver or forwarder
which involves frequent trips to the regions). Increasingly, male candidates as
totally unjustified preference, often regardless of the age of a female
candidate.
Employers have their own motives. Some people believe that a
woman "aged" can not control the young male staff, others - that
women after forty less energetic and ambitious. Of course, there are
exceptions: cases in which the client wants to hire an employee, in which all
the family problems in the past, and insisted on the candidature of women
younger than 45 years and always with children, have graduated from high
school.
Managers of
large companies on the question of the age limit in one voice say: we have no
such. "Fixed standard age for managers, we do not exist, - says Director
of Administration EKZ" Lebedyansky "Alexey Molchanov. - In practice,
the average age of the key central office managers - '32. " In
"VimpelCom", for example, reported that the age limit as such, the
company does not, but "standard, we consider candidates not older than 45
years."
From age discrimination no one is immune. The reason is not
only the older generation mentality, but also employers stereotypes.
Nevertheless, the situation will soon change. Experts say that the domestic
market is growing shortage of top managers and middle managers and that age in
this regard becomes a secondary criterion.
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