Talk by Professor Serge da Motta Veiga - Age discrimination in the workplace

What?

On the 23rd and the 24th of March 2023, Professor Serge da Motta Veiga will visit VUB. He was nominated by the faculty of Social Sciences and Solvay Business School to take on the VUB-chair during the academic year 2023-2024. During his visit, he will present his recent research results about age discrimination in the workplace. Participants are invited to discuss this topic together.

Age discrimination in the workplace, what exactly does it entail? Only a few can explain this better than the expert himself. In the following paragraph, he briefly explains his research through his abstract:

“In this work, we highlight the importance of understanding age discrimination at work from the targets’ (i.e., the person who is perceiving being discriminated) perspective. We underscore the crucial role of age in shaping the development of perceived age discrimination over time. Our findings also highlight that the belief in a just world plays a functional and adaptive role in constantly protecting employees from the perceptions of age discrimination at work. Finally, we unveil that while the majority of workers do not report the perception of age discrimination at work over time, resulting in better long-term work outcomes compared to those in both increasing and decreasing change patterns, they also go against the intuition that an improving (i.e., decreasing) pattern may be better in the long-term than a worsening (i.e., increasing) pattern, as we found no difference in work outcomes between the increasing and decreasing age discrimination patterns.”

Who is Prof. da Motta Veiga?

Prof. Serge da Motta Veiga is Professor of Human Resource Management at EDHEC Business School. Prior to joining EDHEC, he was a Professor of Management at American University in Washington, DC. He earned his Ph.D. in Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior from the University of Missouri, and a license in Economics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium.

His research interests revolve around job search and recruitment, at the intersection of career and talent management. He is also looking at the importance of diversity and inclusion practices as they pertain to these processes. His work has been published in leading journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Organization Science, Personnel Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Vocational Behavior, and the Journal of Organizational Behavior.

Where & When?

The talk will take place on Friday the 24th of March, from 10h until 12h in the Proclamation Room (Room D2.01).

Who can join?

Everyone is welcome, especially: researchers WOPS, BUSI, POLI, SCOM; employees M&O, alumni working in HR, etc.

Registration is not required.