Modern views on biosocial risks in the management of older staff
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17308/econ.2023.1/10926Keywords:
social and economic status, biosocial factors, health, epigenetics, ageingAbstract
Subject. In many countries of the world the trend towards the demographic ageing of the population calls for reconsidering the approaches to human resource management and supplementing them with new knowledge that allows developing a strategy that helps them to continue their work-related activities. Therefore, the transdisciplinary approach is of the greatest interest as it allows identifying the determinants of a person’s social and economic achievements throughout life as well as the underlying patterns of managing the age of staff. It seems highly relevant to study the relationship between the economic and social statuses of a person and medical and biological phenomena. On the one hand, the biological mechanisms and health paths are important factors for further social and economic results and achievements. On the other hand, the processes of social stratification throughout life have a strong effect on human health at all life stages. It is very important to understand the social and biological mechanisms of how the processes of social stratification determine a person’s success in order to identify the biosocial risk factors for the implementation of the potential of older employees and to develop management strategies for preventing and overcoming them.
Objectives. It is necessary to justify the need for a biosocial approach in planning steps for the development of the potential for older workers to succeed.
Methodology. We used the following methods of scientific knowledge to achieve our goals: logical and historical methods; analysis and synthesis, and induction. The study was based on the research of modern scientific and periodical literature on the studied topic using the Pubmed database and the Google Academy.
Conclusions. The combination of biological information and the indicators of the social environment and lifelong behaviour provides unique ideas and unprecedented opportunities for discovering and developing strategies that can be used to prevent and overcome negative factors as well as extend the period of working ability and economically active life of older workers.
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