Facing the Challenges of a Multi-Age Workforce

A Use-Inspired Approach

Lisa M. Finkelstein, Donald M. Truxillo, Franco Fraccaroli, Ruth Kanfer, Lisa M. Finkelstein, Donald M. Truxillo, Franco Fraccaroli, Ruth Kanfer

• Editorial: Routledge
• Año: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781135039509
• Edición: 1
• Categoría: Psychology
• Categoría: History & Theory in Psychology

Facing the Challenges of a Multi-Age Workforce examines the shifting economic, cultural, and technological trends in the modern workplace that are taking place as a result of the aging global workforce. Taking an international perspective, contributors address workforce aging issues around the world, allowing for productive cross-cultural comparisons. Chapters adopt a use-inspired approach, with contributors proposing solutions to real problems faced by organizations, including global teamwork, unemployed youth, job obsolescence and over-qualification, heavy emotional labor and physically demanding jobs, and cross-age perceptions and communication. Additional commentaries from sociologists, gerontologists, economists, and scholars of labor and government round out the volume and demonstrate the interdisciplinary nature of this important topic.