The Older Worker: Effective Strategies for Management and Human Resource Development / Edition 1

by Noreen Hale

Overview

Presents model programs used to redesign jobs, create opportunities for part-time work, and keep workers age fifty and over productively on the job. Provides a career planning model for assessing the interests and skills of older employees and facilitating successful career changes.E

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555422844
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/16/1991
Series:	Management Series
Edition description:	1st ed
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	6.32(w) x 9.63(h) x 0.83(d)

About the Author

Noreen Hale is the author of The Older Worker: Effective Strategies for Management and Human Resource Development, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

PrefaceThe Author
1. The Growing Emphasis on Older Workers
2. Meeting the Challenge of an Aging Workforce
3. Understanding Older Workers: The Human Factor
4. Common Types of Human Resource Programs for Older Workers
5. Case Examples of Progressive Programs at Nine Corporations
6. Setting Up Effective Training, Education, and Development Programs
7. Career Development for Older Workers
8. Managing Older Workers: Developing Needed Skills and Attitudes
9. Older Women in the Work Force: Special Needs and Oppurtunities
10. Human Resource Action Planning for Older Worker Issues
Resources for Further Information: Organizations and Publications
ReferencesIndex

Editorial Reviews

Offers advice to human resource professionals and managers on ways they can cultivate and effectively draw on the skills, experience, and talents of workers age fifty and over. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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