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Older workers' adaptation to a changing workplace
— employment issues for the 21st century | | Author(s) | Dale E Yeatts, W Edward Folts, James Knapp |
| Journal title | Educational Gerontology, vol 26, no 6, September 2000 |
| Pages | pp 565-582 |
| Keywords | Employment of older people ; Adjustment ; Job requirements ; Conditions of employment ; Retirement ; Literature reviews ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The extent to which older people leave their jobs rather than adapt to workplace changes has a significant effect on the organisations they work for, on government programmes (especially social security), and on the workers themselves. It is important to recognise that older employees have needs, values, and interests that must be met by their jobs for them to choose to remain employed and adapt to workplace changes. Simultaneously, a job has knowledge, skill and ability requirements that must be met by an older employee for the employer to choose to retain him or her. As a job changes, the individual-job fit is also likely to change, often with the result that the employee is required to adapt. A review of the literature shows that there are a variety of factors at the individual, organisational, and environmental levels that affect an older worker's ability and choice to adjust to workplace changes. These factors include, for example, training throughout an individual's career, personnel policies affecting older workers, and age discrimination. This article reviews the literature, describing the conceptual and organisational framework and major individual and organisational factors found to affect an older worker's ability and choice to adapt to workplace changes. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001017219 A |
| Classmark | GC: DR: WJA: WKA: G3: 64A: 7T |
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