İşyerinde sosyal hizmet bağlamında yaş dostu işveren

Year 2024, Volume: 14 Issue: 4, 1794 - 1810

Enes Atay , Burak Küsmez , Sefa Ulu

https://doi.org/10.30783/nevsosbilen.1519250

Abstract

İşyerinde sosyal hizmet, çalışanların ilişkide olduğu tüm sistemleri göz önüne alan insanların 7 gün 24 saatini düşünerek onların iyilik halini arttırmayı hedefleyen sosyal hizmetin özelleştirilmiş bir alanıdır. Dünya üzerindeki demografik dönüşüm sonucunda önemi artan yaşlılık, işyerleri özelinde dikkate değer olmalıdır. Bu doğrultuda ortaya çıkan yaş dostu işveren kavramı, işyerlerinde yaş ayrımcılığına maruz kalan çalışanlar için önlemler geliştirmekte ve ayrıca işyerinde eğitim ve farkındalık programları düzenleme, esnek çalışma saatleri sağlama, mentorluk programları oluşturma, sağlık ve refah programları sunarak hem çalışanların hem de işyerinin daha iyi ve olumlu ilişkiler ile yönetilmesini sağlamaktadır. Bu makalede “yaş dostu işveren” kavramı işyerinde sosyal hizmet bağlamında incelenmiştir. Bu inceleme sonucunda çalışma içerisinde işyerinde sosyal hizmetin yaşlı çalışanlar için işyerlerinde geliştirmiş olduğu programlardan bahsedilmiştir. Yaş dostu kavramı, zaman içinde literatürde geniş yer edinmiş ve yaş dostu ekosistemine dönüşmüştür. Bu kavramlar ve literatürde yapılan çalışmalar makalede aktarılırken konunun daha iyi anlaşılabilmesi için tablo ve şekillerle açıklamalar desteklenmiştir. Kavramsal inceleme yapıldıktan sonra yazarlar tarafından geliştirilen “işyerinde sosyal hizmet ekosistemi” modeli oluşturulmuştur. Bu model yaş dostu işveren olan işyerleri için işyerinde sosyal hizmet bağlamında bir uygulama önerisi niteliği taşımaktadır. Bu model içinde önerilen hizmetleri işverenlerin sağlaması noktasında iyilik hali daha yüksek çalışanlar ve daha huzurlu bir çalışma ortamı sağlayacağı düşünülmektedir.

Keywords

İşyerinde sosyal hizmet, yaş dostu işveren, yaş dostu ekosistemi, işyerinde sosyal hizmet ekosistemi

Age-friendly employer in the context of occupational social work

Abstract

Occupational social work is a specialised field of social work that aims to increase the well-being of people 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, considering all the systems that employees are in contact with. Old age, which has become increasingly important as a result of the demographic transformation in the world, should be taken into consideration in the workplace. The concept of age-friendly employer, which emerged in this direction, develops measures for employees who are exposed to age discrimination in the workplace, and ensures that both employees and the workplace are managed with better and positive relationships by organizing training and awareness programs, providing flexible working hours, creating mentoring programs, and offering health and welfare programs. In this article, the concept of “age-friendly employer” is examined in the context of social work in the workplace. As a result of this examination, the programs developed by social work in the workplace for older workers are mentioned in the study. The concept of age-friendly has gained a wide place in the literature over time and has turned into an age-friendly ecosystem. While these concepts and studies in the literature are presented in the article, explanations are supported with tables and figures for a better understanding of the subject. After this conceptual review, the “social work ecosystem in the workplace” model developed by the authors was created. This model is an application proposal in the context of social work in the workplace for workplaces that are age-friendly employers. It is thought that employers providing the services proposed in this model will provide employees with higher well-being and a more peaceful working environment.

Keywords

Occupational social work, Age-friendly employer, Age-friendly ecosystem, Occupational social work ecosystem

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