Facing the Challenges of a Multi-Age Workforce A Use-Inspired Approach [Hardcover]

Facing the Challenges of a Multi-Age Workforceexamines 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.

Part I: Overview

1. An Introduction to Facing the Challenges of a Multi-Age Workforce: A Use-Inspired ApproachLisa M. Finkelstein, Donald M. Truxillo, Franco Fraccaroli, and Ruth Kanfer

Part II: Science Confronts the Global Challenges

Issue One: Organizations and Teams Go Global

2. Age Diversity and Global Teamwork: A Future Agenda for Researchers and PractitionersFlorian Kunze and Stephan A. Boehm
3. Human Resource Management and Sustainability at Work across the Life-span: An Integrative PerspectiveAnnet H. De Lange, Dorien T. A. M. Kooij, and Beatrice I. J. M. Van der Heijden

Issue Two: Patterns of Employment and Unemployment

4. The Challenge of Building Human Capital and Benefiting from It: A Person-centric View of Youth Unemployment and UnderemploymentJos? M. Peir?, Ana lC%