Routledge Ageless Talent: Enhancing the Performance and Well-Being of Your Age-Diverse Workforce

Ageless Talent: Enhancing the Performance and Well-Being of Your Age-Diverse Workforce provides organizational leaders, managers, and supervisors with clear, evidence-based tactics by which to develop and manage an aging and age-diverse talent pool. This volume provides an easy-to-implement set of tools for addressing the difficult problems related to employee performance and well-being amid ongoing technological and social change. Ageless Talent introduces a straightforward framework (PIERA) that translates scientific advances into actionable steps and strategies. Using this framework, this book provides practical illustrations to help readers design their own small-scale interventions to achieve desirable goals under diverse organizational constraints. Furthermore, the book addresses modern management challenges arising across the globe, and offers suggestions for leaders interested in short-term and long-term change. These suggestions, grounded in time-tested and leading-edge research evidence, include specific step-by-step guidelines, customizable to different types of organizations and industries. With economic, cultural, technological, and demographic shifts making the changing nature of work a pressing concern for organizations around the globe, Ageless Talent is an essential text for practitioners – HR professionals, organizational leaders, and managers – as well as management education programs and professional training and leadership programs. It will also appeal to instructors and students in the field of industrial/organizational psychology. Review “Ageless Talent provides a helpful review of evidence-based strategies to manage workers at any age. What this book offers – more than any other I've read – is its action orientation. Finkelstein and her colleagues provide useful tips for what managers can do right now to support workers (e.g., training, work-life balance, teamwork among others). Even as a researcher at the interface between aging and work, I found these tips helpful in managing my team.”―Margaret E. Beier, Rice University, USA "This timely and accessible volume suggests an innovative approach to managing the changing context of aging and work, and is, importantly, relevant to all ages of workers. Moving beyond generational stereotypes and outdated age-based policies, the authors suggest an evidence-based strategy that has led to successful outcomes for employees, their families, and the organizations they inhabit." ―Jacquelyn B. James, Boston College, USA "Grounded in scientific research but also comprehensive and entertaining, this book is a very useful guide for managers, HR professionals, and politicians to address the demographic changes in work organizations. In addition to concrete tools and concepts, the authors also consider aging in light of global changes, such as digitization of work or the COVID-19 pandemic. Highly needed, and fun to read!" ―Guido Hertel, University of Münster, Germany "This book is an excellent example how experts in managing an aging and age-diverse talent pool in organizations should write a practice-focused book. Congratulations, the idea of action items (inspiring the reader to think about things to do right now, next week, and long term), using PIERA (Plan, Implement, Evaluate, Reflect, and Adjust – exercises in all chapters) as well as the many special focus boxes offering illustrating case studies, checklists (e.g. Do’s and Don’ts regarding employee motivation), diagnostic tools and important background information (e.g., how younger supervisors should lead older employees) support this complicated journey. You will get science-based advice without the sometimes rather boring science-speak!" ―Juergen Wegge, Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Work-, Organization- and Social Psychology, TU Dresden, Germany   About the Author Lisa M. Finkelstein is Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Northern Illinoi