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Managing the working body — active ageing and limits to the 'flexible' firm
Author(s)	Elizabeth Brooke, Philip Taylor, Christopher McLoughlin, Tia Di Biase
Journal title	Ageing and Society, vol 33, no 8, November 2013
Publisher	Cambridge University Press, November 2013
Pages	pp 1295-1314
Source	journals.cambridge.org/aso
Keywords	Ageing process ; Health [elderly] ; Employment of older people ; Conditions of employment ; Attitude ; Employers ; Quantitative studies ; Australia.
Annotation	Workforce ageing is considered in the context of four Australian employing organisations which are each in the process of change. In these organisations, perceptions regarding the relationship between the declining body and productivity led to a depreciation on the value of the older workers and their consignment to less productive edges of organisations. While this was viewed as benefiting older workers, it was also acknowledged that workforce ageing will place severe constraints on the use of such practices, already regarded with suspicion by operational managers responsible for cost containment. By way of supporting individual functional capacity and health, workplace design and ergonomics, and developing the work community, the authors advocate policies which aim to restrain biological and psychological decline. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-131018208 A
Classmark	BG: CC: GC: WKA: DP: TF: 3DQ: 7YA
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