Facing the Challenges of a Multi-Age Workforce : A Use-Inspired Approach

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.

Lisa M. Finkelstein is Professor of Psychology at Northern Illinois University, USA.

Donald M. Truxillo is Professor of Psychology at Portland State University, USA.

Franco Fraccaroli is Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at University of Trento, Italy.

Ruth Kanfer is Professor of Psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA.