Overview
- Gives implications and insights into applying age sensitive HRM and leadership practices
- Discusses the dichotomy between the needs of organisations to retain organisational memory and tacit knowledge, while balancing concerns about the loss of skills of older workers
- Provides interdisciplinary research on the topics of age, gender and sociology at work
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Front Matter
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Age and Gender at the Intersections of Organising and Managing
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Front Matter
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Age in Transition
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About this book
This book explores critical perspectives on ageing in organisations and offers both managerial and workplace practices for dealing with this prominent issue. The collection provides cross-disciplinary research on the discursive and mythological aspects of ageing at work as well as recent studies of the relationship between age and innovation, talent, careers, and workplace transitions. The book brings together authors from Europe, North America and Australia. By addressing current societal challenges and offering insights on ageing at work, this book will be of interest to those involved in human resource management, workplace organisation and the sociology of work.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Iiris Aaltio is Professor of Management and Leadership at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She holds also adjunct professorships at Aalto University, the University of Turku and the University of Lapland, Finland. She sits on the editorial boards of international journals including the Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies and Culture and Organization, and has authored, edited and co-edited a variety of books and special issues in the areas of culture, diversity and gender in organisations.
Jean Helms Mills is Professor of Management at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary's University, Canada, Docent at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and has been a Senior Research Fellow at Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, since 2008. Jean is currently Co-Editor of Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management and Associate Editor for Gender, Work and Organization.
Albert J. Mills is Professor and Director of Management at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University, Canada. He is also Professor at the University of Eastern Finland. Albert is the author of over forty books and special issues, including the recently published Insights and Research on the study of Gender and Intersectionality in International Airline Cultures (2017). He is currently the Co-Chair of the International Board for Critical Management Studies and Co-Editor of Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ageing, Organisations and Management
Book Subtitle: Constructive Discourses and Critical Perspectives
Editors: Iiris Aaltio, Albert J. Mills, Jean Helms Mills
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58813-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58812-4Published: 01 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86480-8Published: 04 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58813-1Published: 16 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 370
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Resource Management, Organization, Sociology of Work, Innovation/Technology Management, Project Management