The Older Worker and the Changing Labor Market
eBook - ePub

The Older Worker and the Changing Labor Market

New Challenges for the Workplace

  1. 198 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Older Worker and the Changing Labor Market

New Challenges for the Workplace

About this book

As the country's workforce ages, the changing labor market must address unique challenges as well as surprising opportunities. This book presents leading scholars and researchers providing valuable insights into the challenges facing older workers in the contemporary workplace as well as offering perspectives on the demands presently being placed on employers to adapt to and accommodate the needs of these workers. The book focuses on the analysis of current trends in older workers, work, family, and personal life issues, and ways to transform today's workplace to value older workers.

This book offers practitioners the opportunity to fully grasp the current situation for older workers by presenting the latest research. This helpful resource provides professionals with best practices and innovative approaches to support aging employees. The volume is extensively referenced and contains several tables to clearly present data. It is a valuable text for employers, human resources professionals, employee assistance programs, work/family professionals, gerontologists and aging studies professionals, educators, and students.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health.

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Yes, you can access The Older Worker and the Changing Labor Market by Judith G Gonyea in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Business & Business Skills. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780789037718
eBook ISBN
9781317993568
Edition
1
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Business Skills
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. About the Contributors
  7. Foreword: America's Aging Workforce: A Critical Business Issue
  8. 1 Retirees Who Returned to Work: Human and Social Capital Implications for Organizations
  9. 2 Modeling Individuals' Post-Retirement Behaviors Toward Their Former Organization
  10. 3 Powerful Tools for Caregivers Online: An Innovative Approach to Support Employees
  11. 4 Will the Types of Jobs Being Created Enable Older Workers to Keep Working?
  12. 5 Retirement Transitions Among Married Couples
  13. 6 Strategic Human Resource Management and the Older Worker
  14. 7 Working in Old Age: Benefits of Participation in the Senior Community Service Employment Program
  15. 8 Making Sense of a Mess: Phased Retirement Policies and Practices in the United States
  16. 9 Interests and Concerns of Older Workers: New Challenges for the Workplace
  17. 10 An Ergonomic Approach to the Aging Workforce Utilizing This Valuable Resource to Best Advantage by Integrating Ergonomics, Health Promotion and Employee Assistance Programs
  18. Index