A FIELD STUDY OF CHALLENGES FACED BY AGING WORKFORCE

Year 2011, Volume: 6 Issue: 24, 3913 - 3931, 01.06.2011

Orhan Koçak

Abstract

Keywords

-

A FIELD STUDY OF CHALLENGES FACED BY AGING WORKFORCE

Abstract

Over the next years and decades, both aging of population and workforce will be seen in developing and developed countries. Especially improvements in health care services and social services, increasing of life expectancy and decreasing the rates of infant mortality are the main reasons of population and workforce aging. Together with these developments, both governments and businesses will face challenges which are needed to overcome in the years ahead. In this study after a literature review on aging workforce, the survey, which was done in Yalova city, is studied in order to understand the approach of aging workforce. The survey was focused on the aging workforce’s challenges such as new technologies and in improvement of the skills. Although there is no much difference in the approaches between young and aging workers, the lack of conscious toward technological developments and improvements of skills for state-ofthe-art developments of aging workforce is striking and needs to be more examined

Keywords

-

References

• BLS, Bureau of labor Statistics, Employment Policy Foundation analysis and projections of Census/BLS and BEA data, American Workplace Report, 2002.
• Bockman, Shel, Barbara, Sirotnik, The aging workforce: An expanded definition, The Business Renaissance Quarterly: Enhancing the Quality of Life at Work, 2010.
• Carnoy, Martin, “Sustaining the New Economy Work, Family, and Community in the Information Age”, Harvard University Press, 2002.
• Commission of the European Communities, “Increasing employment of older workers and delaying the exit from the labour market,” Communication from the Commission to the Council, the European Parliament, The European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, March 3 2004.
• Delong, David W., Lost knowledge: confronting the threat of an aging workforce, OXFORD University Press, 2004.
• European Commission, Demography report 2008: Meeting social needs in an ageing society, Luxembourg, Publications Office of the European Union, 2009, online, http://ec.europa.eu/social/BlobServlet?docId=2638&langId=en.
• Ford, Ruth, Nancy Orel, “Older Adult Learners in the Workforce : New Dimensions to Workforce Training Needs”, Journal of Career Development 2005 \ 32.
• Haarman, Julia, Toralf Kahlert, Lars Langenberg and Tobias Müller-Prothmann, “Knowledge Exchange: A Systematic Approach to Knowledge Transfer of the Aging Workforce”, The Icfai University Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. VII, Nos. 3 & 4, 2009.
• Haight, M. Joel, Human Error and the Challenges of an Ageing Workforce, Considerations for Improving Workplace Safety, Literature Review, Professional Safety, December 2003.
• Hankin, Harriet, The New Workforce, Five Sweeping Trends That Will Shape Your Company’s Future, AMACOM Books New York, 2005.
• Hedge, W. Jerry, Walter C. Borman, Steven E. Lammlein, The Aging Workforce Realities, Myths and Implications For Organizations, American Psychological Association, Washington, DC, 2006.
• Koc, Sergio-Menard, “Training strategies for an aging workforce”, Emerald Group Publishing, Industrial And Commercial Training, Vol. 41 No. 6, 2009.
• Krenn, Manfred and Paul Oehlke, Integration of the Ageing Workforce, The European Work Organisation Network EWON, Presented to DG Employment & Social Affairs, 2001.
• Leibold, Marius, Sven Voelpel, Managing the Aging Workforce Challenges and Solutions, Publicis Wiley, 2006.