The Multi-Generational and Aging Workforce ─ Challenges and Opportunities

In 17 chapters, scholars from Europe, North America, and Australia consider issues related to the increasingly aging and multi-generational workforce and effects on individuals, families, organizations, and societies. They address the larger context first: unemployment in the digital age; the relationship between economic factors, self-esteem, and psychological distress in university students; the economic crisis, recession, and youth unemployment; and the relationship between older age bias and age discrimination law. Subsequently, they discuss the needs of millennials and different generations in Brazil, Russia, India, and China; the needs of older employees related to eldercare assistance, motivational goals and competencies, resiliency, stereotypes and discrimination, and re-entering the workforce, as well as retaining older workers; and creating an age-friendly workplace through lifelong learning, workplace learning, leveraging the workforce, and getting a good fit for older employees. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Edited by Ronald J. Burke, Emeritus Professor, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada, Professor Sir Cary Cooper, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK and Alexander-Stamatios G. Antoniou, Assistant Professor of Psychology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece