Edadismo y desempeño laboral en docentes universitarios

Abstract

Ageism is a social issue that is present all over the world, it refers to the discrimination that a person may suffer regarding his or her age, where the most affected are the elderly. This issue has always prevailed in society and lately, a term has been coined to describe this problem "ageism". Work performance is a fundamental pillar to meet the objectives previously set within organizations. The general objective of this research is to determine the influence that ageism has on older adult teachers’ work performance working at Universidad Técnica de Ambato. The research has a quantitative approach, is descriptive and correlational, with a sample of 45 older adult teachers. For the execution of the research, a quantitative approach methodology was used based on two instruments. CENVE was used for the negative stereotypes, which consists of three dimensions "Health", "Motivational-Social-Occupational" and "Character-Personality" EVADEST was used to measure work performance, consisting of six dimensions: "Work Knowledge", "Work Quality", "Responsibility", "Productivity", "Ability and Dexterity" and "Attitude towards the Company", with a total of 25 items. Each of the instruments applied to the teachers has a reliability and validity test previously carried out by experts in the area, by means of which the level of negative stereotypes and the level of the older adult teachers’ work performance currently present are determined.