Managing the Older Worker

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New Business Realities and the Business Case for Older Workers

In order to see clearly the opportunities that older workers offer to contemporary employers, it is important to take a moment and look at the human capital challenges that employers now face.

The idea that older workers could be an asset for business and employers generally is relatively new because, as noted in chapter 1, only recently has life expectancy extended enough for individuals to be able to work beyond historical retirement ages. The great U.S. corporations that dominated the world of business through most of the twentieth century were established in a time when age sixty-five ...