Aging Workers and the Employee-Employer Relationship

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bal, P. Matthijs (Editor), Kooij, Dorien T.A.M (Editor), Rousseau, Denise M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Business.; Personnel management.; Social groups.; Family.; Youth.; Industrial psychology.; Business and Management.; Human Resource Management.; Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology.; Sociology of Familiy, Youth and Aging.

 This book focuses on the aging workforce from the employment relationship perspective. This innovative book specifically focuses on how organizations can ensure their aging workers remain motivated, productive, and healthy. In 15 chapters, several experts on this topic describe how organizations through effective human resource management can ensure that workers are able to continue working at higher age. In addition, this book discusses the role older workers themselves play in continuing work at higher age. To do this, the authors integrate research from different areas, such as literature on leadership, psychological contracts, and diversity with literature on the aging workforce. Through this integration this book provides innovative ways for organizations and workers to maintain productivity, motivation and health. Aging Workers and the Employee-Employer Relationship summarizes the latest research on how employment relationships change with age and its implications for supporting the well-being, motivation, and productivity of older workers. It identifies ways to improve how both companies and workers solve the problems they face. These include better designed employment practices and more adaptive job content and developmental opportunities for aging workers along with activities aging workers can engage to enhance their own job crafting, learning and employability. 

 Chapter 1: Introduction to Aging Workers and the Employee-Employer Relationship; P. Matthijs Bal, Dorien T.A.M. Kooij and Denise M. Rousseau -- PART I: THE ROLE OF CONTEXT AND THE ORGANIZATION -- Chapter 2: Older Workers, Stereotypes, and Discrimination in the Context of the Employment Relationship; Lisa M. Finkelstein -- Chapter 3: Age Diversity and Age Climate in the Workplace; Stephan A. Boehm and Florian Kunze -- Chapter 4: Strategic HRM for Older Workers; Dorien T.A.M. Kooij and Karina van de Voorde -- Chapter 5: The Role of Line Managers in Motivation of Older Workers; Eva Knies, Peter Leisink and Jo Thijssen -- Chapter 6: A Lifespan Perspective on Leadership; Hannes Zacher, Michael Clark, Ellen C. Anderson, and Oluremi B. Ayoko -- PART II: THE ROLE OF THE OLDER WORKER -- Chapter 7: The Psychological Contracts of Older Employees; Tim Vantilborgh, Nicky Dries, Ans de Vos and P. Matthijs Bal -- Chapter 8: Idiosyncratic Deals for Older Workers: Increased Heterogeneity among Older Workers Enhance the Need for I-Deals; P. Matthijs Bal and Paul G.W. Jansen -- Chapter 9: Successful Aging at Work: the Role of Job Crafting; Dorien T.A.M. Kooij, Maria Tims and Ruth Kanfer -- Chapter 10: Aging Workers’ Learning and Employability; Isabel Raemdonck, Simon Beausaert, Dominik Fröhlich, Nané Kochoian and Caroline Meurant -- PART III: WORKING BEYOND RETIREMENT -- Chapter 11: Intentions to Continue Working and its Predictors; René Schalk and Donatienne Desmette -- Chapter 12: Bridge Employment: Conceptualizations and New Directions for Future Research; Yujie Zhan and Mo Wang -- Chapter 13: Adjustment Processes in Bridge Employment: Where We Are and Where We Need To Go; Cort W. Rudolph, Annet H. De Lange and Beatrice Van der Heijden -- Chapter 14: Aging Entrepreneurs and Volunteers: Transition in Late Career; Susan Ainsworth -- Chapter 15: Conclusion and Future Research; Dorien T.A.M. Kooij, Denise M. Rousseau and P. Matthijs Bal.