The Importance and Value of Older Employees : Wise Workers in the Workplace /

'This book reports on original research and provides a positive consideration of the contribution of older workers. The existing literature tends to focus on the barriers, discrimination and problems, which older workers face so this is a useful corrective to that. The book will be of interest...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Hilsen, Anne Inga (Author), Olsen, Dorothy Sutherland (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Edition:	1st ed. 2021.
Subjects:	Industrial sociology. Education. Social groups. Family. Sociology of Work. Education, general. Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Competence and knowledge at work
Chapter 3 What do we know about the knowledge of older workers?
Chapter 4 Research design
Chapter 5 Over 50s at work. Findings from case studies
Chapter 6 Discussion/what do these findings tell us
Chapter 7 The wise worker
Chapter 8 Conclusion.