基本説明
Offers a critical overview of the most significant themes and topics, with discussions of current research, theoretical controversies and emerging issues.
Full Description
Aging has emerged as a major and urgent issue for individuals, organisations and governments of our time. In this well-timed and comprehensive handbook, key international contributors to the field of study come together to create a definitive map of the subject. Framed by an authoritative introductory chapter, the SAGE Handbook of Aging, Work and Society offers a critical overview of the most significant themes and topics, with discussions of current research, theoretical controversies and emerging issues, divided into sections covering:
Key Issues and Challenges
The Aging Workforce
Managing an Aging Workforce
Living in an Aging Society
Developing Public Policy
Contents
The Aging Workforce: Individual, Organizational and Societal Opportunities and Challenges - Ronald Burke, Cary L. Cooper and John Field
PART ONE: KEY ISSUES AND CHALLENGES
World Population in Historical Perspective - Tommy Bengtsson and Kirk Scott
Research on Age Diversity in the Workforce - Current Trends and Future Research Directions - Florian Kunze and Stephan Boehm
Prolonging working life in an aging world: A crossnational perspective on labor market and welfare policies toward active aging - Anne-Marie Guillemard
Migration and workforce aging - John Field
PART TWO: THE AGING WORKFORCE
Work Performance and the Older Worker - Margaret E. Beier and Ruth Kanfer
Age and Work Motives - Cort W. Rudolph, Boris B. Baltes and Keith L. Zabel
New Patterns of Late-Career Employment - Kerr Inkson, Margaret Richardson and Carla Houkamau
Care Work and New Technologies of Care for Older People Living at Home - Celia Roberts, Maggie Mort and Christine Milligan
Ageing, work and the demographic dividend in South Asia - Penny Vera-Sanso
Age and Generational Differences in Work Psychology: Facts, Fictions, and Meaningful Work - Paul Fairlie
PART THREE: MANAGING AN AGING WORKFORCE
Comparative Age Management: Theoretical Perspectives and Practical Implications - Stephan Boehm, Heike Schröder, and Florian Kunze
Demographic Challenges for Human Resource Management: Implications from Management and Psychological Theories - Birgit Verworn, Christiane Hipp and Doreen
Age stereotypes in the workplace: multidimensionality, cross-cultural applications, and directions for future research - Richard A. Posthuma and Laura Guerrero
Older Workers, Occupational Stress and Safety - Gary A. Adams, Sarah DeArmond, Steve M. Jex and Jennica R. Webster
Training Older Workers: A Review - Yu-Shan Hsu
Older Workers in the Professions: Learning Challenges and Strategies - Tara Fenwick
Quality of work, wellbeing, and retirement - Johannes Siegrist and Morten Wahrendorf
PART FOUR: LIVING IN AN AGING SOCIETY
Working Caregivers in the 'Sandwiched Generation' - Margaret B. Neal, Leslie B. Hammer, Ayala Malach Pines, Todd E. Bodner, and Melissa L. Cannon
The social connections of older Europeans - Martin Kohli and Harald K nemund
Engaging elders in community and society - Stina Johansson
Learning in later life - Franz Kolland and Anna Wanka
The role of social networking games in maintaining intergenerational communications for older adults - Yunan Chen, Jing Wen and Bo Xie
Making a case for the existence of generational stereotypes: a literature review and exploratory study - Elissa L. Perry, Apivat Hanvongse and Danut A. Casoinic
PART FIVE: DEVELOPING PUBLIC POLICY
Reconstructing work and retirement: Labour market trends and policy issues - Chris Phillipson
Policies for older adult learning: the case of the European Union - Marvin Formosa
Optimizing the Long Future of Aging: Beyond Involvement to Engagement - Jacquelyn Boone James, Marcie Pitt-Catsouphes, Jennifer Kane Coplon, and Betty Eckhaus Cohen
The measurement of multiple dimensions of subjective well-being in later life - Bram Vanhoutte
Legal aspects of age discrimination - Malcolm Sargeant
