The Aging Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities for Human Resource Professionals

The Aging Workforce book provides an extensive examination of the important and challenging topic of age discrimination in employment. The authors analyze the subject matter in a variety of contexts-legal, ethical, cross cultural, and practical. The authors also present the results of their own research as well as others regarding age discrimination in employment in the United States as well as other countries including Jamaica, Turkey, Thailand, Bahamas, and Afghanistan. The Aging Workforce discusses some of the challenges that older workers face in the work environment and offers practical solutions for the retention of a diverse and competent workforce. Based on the foregoing, the authors provide strategies and make recommendations to managers and human resource professionals as to how to handle the challenges of an aging workforce in a manner that maximizes the value of relevant stakeholders in the organization.