Abstract
Population ageing is a global phenomenon and deserves greater attention from Organizational Studies. In this area, ageing is approached from the perspective of chronological age, which, however, is insufficient to apprehend the phenomenon. Therefore, the aim of this study is to identify how professionals working in public and private schools build a conception of ageing. For that, we interviewed 14 professionals over the age of 50 whose data was collected and analyzed through the Grounded Theory, based on the study of reality as socially constructed. The research allowed to verify that the professionals do not recognize themselves according to their chronological age, but in terms of the attributes and behaviors performed in their work. This condition was useful for this article, by identifying the construction of the professional age as one of many ages in the professional environment. The professional age is categorized into bureaucratic age and corporate age, referring to the construction of ageing for employees of public and private organizations.
Keywords:
Ageing; Grounded-theory; Social Construction