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Agemanagement as a meaningful people management strategy: part 1 - From motivation to agemanagement

Publication at Faculty of Education |
2022

Abstract

The average age of teachers has long been below the 50-year mark, specifically in 2019 it was exactly 47.2 years, while with an even distribution of power between "young" and "experienced", the average age should be no more than 45 years (MoEYS, 2019; Eduin, 2019). This therefore means that older age categories tend to predominate in the corps and young teachers are not in optimal supply.

How to deal with this situation? The challenge for education policy and faculties of education is certainly to motivate younger generations to choose the teaching profession. But this is not enough.

After graduation, there is the logical real school environment and the crucial role of the head teacher, who must not only motivate the young, but also keep his or her middle-aged colleagues and, of course, the most experienced ones motivated. Agemanagement teaches us how to do this in a meaningful way.