The workforce is aging as people live longer and healthier lives, and mandatory retirement has become a relic of the past. Though workforces have always contained both younger and older employees the age range today has expanded, and the generational gap has become more distinct. This book advocates the need for talented employees of all ages as a way to prevent potential skill shortages and considers both the challenges and opportunities that these changes raise for individual organizations. The benefits they discuss include greater employee diversity with regards to knowledge, skills experience and perspectives, whilst challenges involve potential generational tensions, stereotypes and age biases. The book further places an emphasis on initiatives to create generation-friendly workplaces; these involve fostering lifelong learning, tackling age stereotypes and biases, employing reverse mentoring where younger employees mentor older employees, and offering older individuals career options including phased retirement, bridge employment and encore careers.
Contents:PART I SETTING THE STAGE1. Managing an Aging and Multi-generational Workforce: Challenges and OpportunitiesRonald J.BurkePART II UNDERSTANDING THE LARGER CONTEXT2. Unemployment in the Digital AgeAdrian Furnham3. Surviving in Difficult Economic Times: Relationship between Economic Factors, Self-esteem and Psychological Distress in University StudentsEsther R. Greenglass, Joana K. Q.Katter, Lisa M. Fiksenbaum and Brian. M. Hughes4. Economic Crisis, Recession and Youth Unemployment: Causes and ConsequencesAlexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou and Marina Dalla5. Cause, Effect and Solutions? The Uneasy Relationship between Older Age Bias and Age Discrimination LawSusan Bisom-Rapp and Malcolm SargeantPart III UNDERSTANDING THE NEEDS OF YOUNGER EMPLOYEES6. Millenials: Who are they, How are they Different, and Why Should We Care?Eddy S. W. Ng and Jasmine McGinnis Johnson7. Complexity in Multigenerational Organizations: A Socio-political PerspectiveSukbir Sandhu, John Benson, Saras Sastrowardoyo and Christina Scott-YoungPART IV UNDERSTANDING THE NEEDS OF OLDER EMPLOYEES8. Balancing Eldercare and WorkLisa Calvano9. Motivational Goals and Competencies of Older Workers who Re-engaged in the WorkforceJ. Barton Cunningham, Diana Campbell and Jennifer Kroeker-Hall10. Resilience at Work for Older EmployeesGregory Thrasher, Keith Zabel and Boris Baltes11. Age Stereotypes and DiscriminationLisa A. Marchiondo12. Meeting the Needs of an Older Population and Aging WorkforceRonald J. Burke13 Retaining Aging Workers in the Workplace - Stakeholder Initiatives Deborah M. McPhee and Francine SchlosserPart V CREATING THE AGE-FRIENDLY WORKPLACE14. Lifelong Learning and the Multigenerational WorkforceJohn Field 15. Workplace Learning: Vital at all AgesRonald J. Burke16. Leveraging an Aging and Multigenerational WorkforceRonald J. Burke17. Getting a Good Fit for Older EmployeesMarci Pitt-Catsouphes, Tay McNamara and Stephen Sweet Index