Research Catalog

Title

Older workforces : re-imagining later life learning / Domini Bingham.

Author

Bingham, Domini

Publication

• London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Description

xiii, 151 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

We are all going to become old. Many countries are ageing demographically with ageing workforces. Despite anti-discrimination and equality laws, older workers are routinely left out from learning opportunities even unconsciously so, suffer stereotyping or they simply do not participate. Why is this so? This book looks to understand the background to this and re-imagine older workplaces to capitalise on older workers. The author explores what learning and development offers a best fit for older workforces through literature, research and case studies with organisations and individuals. She considers how an organisation might shift its strategic processes to offer a holistic workforce opportunity of value to both employee and employer, as it is cognitive skills that will be needed in future workforces. Emphasising the area of work agency and the human right to learning, this book turns ageing and learning in workplaces on its head, seeing older workers as vessels of untapped potential. It re-imagines their possibilities in a time of intense demographic and digital change. This book will be a pragmatic guide to academics, researchers and practitioners in the fields of workplace learning, human resource development, social policy and diversity.

Subject

• Older people > Employment
• Employees > Training of
• Organizational learning
• Inservice Training
• Älterer Arbeitnehmer
• Mitarbeiterschulung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Learning and development of older workers -- Learning in a higher education workplace -- Organisational considerations -- Case studies for learning and development -- The future of work -- Exploring strategic implications -- Reflections and recommendations.

ISBN

• 9781472470539
• 1472470532
• 9781315598789 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781317085980 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018051737

OCLC

• on1065978088
• 1065978088
• SCSB-9318454

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library