<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This paper concerns the problem of generation gap management resulting from personnel restructuring in foundries in Poland. Structural changes to steelworks led to a sharp decline in employment caused by decreased steelworks production. New hiring was limited as a part of employment rationalisation in the steelworks sector. Such personnel policy eventually led to a generation gap. Ratios between individual age groups of employees are imbalanced at steelworks: the numbers of young personnel are low and of those aged 50+ are high. This research forecasts changes in employment levels for the 2013-2019 period, aimed at closing the generation gap. The paper consists of three parts: (1) a descriptive analysis of labor market demographics in Poland’s steel industry; (2) proposed methodology for HR management model, and (3) econometric models forecasting labor demographics in Poland’s steel industry.</p></abstract>

This paper concerns the problem of generation gap management resulting from personnel restructuring in foundries in Poland. Structural changes to steelworks led to a sharp decline in employment caused by decreased steelworks production. New hiring was limited as a part of employment rationalisation in the steelworks sector. Such personnel policy eventually led to a generation gap. Ratios between individual age groups of employees are imbalanced at steelworks: the numbers of young personnel are low and of those aged 50+ are high. This research forecasts changes in employment levels for the 2013-2019 period, aimed at closing the generation gap. The paper consists of three parts: (1) a descriptive analysis of labor market demographics in Poland’s steel industry; (2) proposed methodology for HR management model, and (3) econometric models forecasting labor demographics in Poland’s steel industry.

Generation Gap Management in Restructured Metallurgical Enterprises in Poland

Faculty of Materials Science and Metallurgy, The Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice, Poland

International Journal of Management and Economics

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This paper concerns the problem of generation gap management resulting from personnel restructuring in foundries in Poland. Structural changes to steelworks...

Generation Gap Management in Restructured Metallurgical Enterprises in Poland

Published Online: Dec 04, 2015

Page range: 107 - 120

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijme-2015-0031

Keywords
restructuring process, generation gap management, metallurgical enterprise

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Generation Gap Management in Restructured Metallurgical Enterprises in Poland

Published Online: Dec 04, 2015

Page range: 107 - 120

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijme-2015-0031

Keywordsrestructuring process, generation gap management, metallurgical enterprise

© 2015

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
restructuring process, generation gap management, metallurgical enterprise