Wiek dojrzały i starość a problemy organizacji pracy w dobie postfordyzmu

Abstract

The article is devoted to issues of work quality and aging of the Polish society in the post-Fordist era. Changes in the forms of employment pose numerous threats and create opportunities for combining work with parenting and care work, including unpaid work at home. This provided context for analysing concepts such as diversity management in terms of gender and generational diversity management as well as the Work–Life–Balance concept. The article focuses in particular on 50+ employees and their unpaid care work frequently performed by them, which seems to be underestimated in the analyses related to age management and Work–Life–Balance. All the analyses have been undertaken with the aim to create working conditions which would enable employers to take advantage of the elder employees’ potential.