European University Institute Library

The multi-generational and aging workforce, challenges and opportunities, edited by Ronald J. Burke, Cary L. Cooper, Alexander-Stamatios G. Antonious

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The multi-generational and aging workforce

bibliography

913843726

edited by Ronald J. Burke, Cary L. Cooper, Alexander-Stamatios G. Antonious

New horizons in management

challenges and opportunities

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.--, Provided by publisher

1. Managing an aging and multi-generational workforce: challenges and opportunities / Ronald J. Burke -- 2. Unemployment in the digital age / Adrian Furnham -- 3. Surviving in difficult economic times: relationship between economic factors, self-esteem and psychological distress in university students / Esther R. Greenglass, Joanna K.Q. Katter, Lisa Fiksenbaum and Brian M. Hughes -- 4. Economic crisis, recession and youth unemployment: causes and consequences / Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou and Marina Dalla -- 5. Cause, effect, and solution? The uneasy relationship between older age bias and age discrimination law / Susan Bisom-Rapp and Mancolm Sargeant -- 6. Millenials: who are they, how are they different, and why should we care? / Eddy S.W. Ng and Jasmine McGinnis Johnson -- 7. Complexity in multigenerational organisations: a socio-political perspective / Sukhbir Sandhu, John Benson, Saras Sastrowardoyo and Christina Scott-Young -- 8. Balancing eldercare and work / Lisa Calvano -- 9. Motivational goals and competencies of older workers who re-engaged in the workforce / J. Barton Cunningham, Diana Campbell and Jennifer Kroeker-Hall -- 10. Resiliency at work for older employees / Gregory Thrasher, Keith Zabel and Boris Baltes -- 11. Age stereotypes and discrimination / Lisa A. Marchiondo -- 12. Meeting the needs of an older population and an aging workforce / Ronald J. Burke -- 13. Retaining aging workers in the workplace--stakeholder initiatives / Deborah M. McPhee and Francine Schlosser -- 14. Lifelong learning and the multigenerational workforce / John Field -- 15. Workplace learning: vital at all ages / Ronald J. Burke -- 16. Leveraging an aging and multi-generational workforce / Ronald J. Burke -- 17. Getting a good fit for older employees / Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Tay McNamara and Stephen Sweet