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| This discussion is kind of good for me in a way because I am an older person trying to get back into the workforce and I will have to learn how to deal with a lot of people who has already been working for a while, or people who are just starting and are young and ready to take on the world so to speak. I think the first thing we should thing about is what is ageism mean? According to the dictionary is means prejudice or discrimination on the basis of a person's age. Being it a younger person or and older person. I can see how a younger person just straight out would think that an older person with all of the labor unions and such that they might have a harder time, but I am just starting out so I think I will need to have that extra time to learn and they may be faster of catch on quicker because they have been there through all the technology changes which I have not due to the fact I did not grow up in the digital age. When I think of it through a deontology approach I would try to consider the fact that whoever gets the job must have been the most qualified for the position not because of any sort of age requirement, so to speak. In this article I read in the library it says "We found negative implicit attitudes towards older workers that remained stable even when positive examples of older workers were made salient. In contrast, explicit attitude measures showed no bias against older workers, and these were easier to modify." 163–170. Dasgupta, N., & Asgari, S. (2004). Which to me mean you can teach an old dog new tricks so to speak and that makes me feel better about having to be around a faster paced generation. And even more so being older we should be teaching the younger people the tricks as well because when u teach someone something they can keep that and expand on the idea. I know this first hand from teaching my daughter a recipe she always finds a way to improve on it. So we can learn from each other really. Retrieved from: Dasgupta, N., & Asgari, S. (2004). Seeing is believing: Exposure to counterstereotypic women leaders and its effect on the malleability of automatic gender stereotyping. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 40, 569–696. Retrieved from: http://web.b.ebscohost.com.proxy-library.ashford.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=9f2c1c40-f542-4f09-b81d-ee94e0837d1f%40sessionmgr101&vid=9&hid=116 |
