Managing an Age-Diverse Workforce

✍ Scribed by Emma Parry, Shaun Tyson (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 319
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
The Business Case for an Age-diverse Workforce....Pages 7-23
Age Discrimination and the Law: Forging the Way Ahead....Pages 24-39
Front Matter....Pages 41-42
Situating Age (In)equality within the Paradigm and Practices of Diversity Management....Pages 43-58
The Relationship between Gender and Age....Pages 59-79
The Prism of Age: Managing Age Diversity in the Twenty-First-Century Workplace....Pages 80-94
The Impact of Generational Diversity on People Management....Pages 95-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Ageism and Age Discrimination: The Experiences and Perceptions of Older Employees....Pages 115-128
The Role of Age in Career Progression: Motivation and Barriers to Fulfilment in Older Employees....Pages 129-149
Younger Academics’ Expectations about Work and Future Employers....Pages 150-170
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Extending Working Life: The Retention of Older Workers....Pages 173-188
The Importance of ‘Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks’: Training and Learning Opportunities for Older Workers....Pages 189-205
Health and Well-Being in Older Workers: Capacity Change with Age....Pages 206-220
Front Matter....Pages 221-221
The Impact of National Context on Managing Age Diversity: The Cases of the UK and Germany....Pages 223-245
Working Longer in National Contexts: Comparing Japan and the United States....Pages 246-260
Back Matter....Pages 261-311

✦ Subjects

Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology; Human Resource Management; Childhood, Adolescence and Society; Demography