Age Matters

Employing, Motivating and Managing Older Employees

Publication Date	October 2006
Publisher	Ashgate Publishing
Product Type	Book
Pages	360
ISBN Number	9780566086809
Product Code	ASH00007

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Summary

Keren Smedley and Helen Whitten's Age Matters provides you with a comprehensive, innovative and positive approach to recent changes in the regulations and in demography. The authors explain the advantages and disadvantages of the 2006 legislation and its effect on current retirement practices. Packed with statistics and perspectives on the ageing workforce (in the UK, EU and countries around the world), the book includes practical advice, models, exercises and training activities to help establish an appropriate response for your organisation.

It is those organisations who can look beyond the legislation to manage the value in their older workforce that will thrive. Use this book to understand the implications of demographic change and the employment law issues it raises; to help older employees identify, articulate and adapt to new ways of working; to enable both older and younger employees to work across the generations; and to build an age-inclusive culture.

Covering virtually every human resources issue related to the ageing employment pool, this is a must-have resource for anyone involved in human resources, employment planning, organisational development and training.

Content

Introduction
Section One Age Discrimination and its context: Age Discrimination The next diversity issue
The Age Discrimination Regulations 2006
Demographic changes
Understanding your older workforce
Section Two Managing and Motivating the Older Worker: Changing attitudes and stereotypes
People management
Managing continuous change
Health and wellbeing
Section Three Practical Steps to Achieving an Age-Inclusive Culture: Recruiting and selecting older workers
Performance management
Lifelong learning
Leadership, promotion, career development and succession planning
Intergenerational working
New ways of working
Retirement, pensions and employment issues
Section Four Training and Implementation: Awareness-raising Session: influencing senior management
Awareness-raising session: cascading awareness on age discrimination throughout the organization
Implementation: one-day training programme to introduce age-inclusive working practices into your organization
Implementation: two-day programme to introduce age-inclusive working practices into your organization
Monitoring and evaluating progress
Conclusion.
Bibliography
Index.