Pyramide des âges et gestion des ressources humaines

Company leaders debate regularly about the importance of the age factor in measuring the capacities of their staff. They focuse generally their analysis on the balance between the different age groups of employees. At the human resources management level, age seems the corner stone of restructuring policies and an important criterium to lead decision processes. How to explain this increasing interest in population pyramid in the companies? How it influences the human resource management's strategy? Does it exist demographic conditions to organizational change? This article studies how human resources directors import, reinterpret and use population pyramid, originally designed by and for demographers and statisticians.