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Title: Age Works: What Corporate America Must Do to Survive the Graying of the Workforce by Beverly Goldberg ISBN: 0684857596 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: January, 1900 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75
Rating: 5
Summary: Age Works
Comment: If managers think they have problems attracting and retaining human capital in today's economy, they haven't seen anything yet. Get set for the massive wave of retirements over the next ten (10) years. Beverly Goldberg conveys a compelling picture of why managers need to learn the value of recognizing, retraining, and retaining older workers. Age Works is a wakeup call to those caught up in the wastefulness of our "throw away" society. Older workers are a precious resource that can ill afford to be squandered. Ms. Goldberg demonstrates a better path and presents concrete ways for managers to benefit from the graying of America.
Rating: 5
Summary: Where to find older workers?
Comment: I read Age Works with great interest since I have been involved with this problem for 25 years and have recently published a web site exclusively for older workers. It is a free non- profit referral service. Go to seniorjobbank.org
Rating: 4
Summary: Where Have All the Workers Gone?
Comment: Workers these days are like snow shovels in a South Carolina blizzard - not enough to go around. Some of the causes are simple statistics: economy up, unemployment down, working-age population falling, employers' demand outstripping supply. But others are cultural. Large corporations, the traditional source of jobs, are often perceived as uncaring engines of depletion, exhaustion, and downsizing. The young are choosing options, from lifestyle to stock, while workplace veterans opt for the dignity of early retirement over the desolation of forced termination. Employers' alternatives are stark: expand their supply, increase their appeal, or prepare for shortfalls and belt-tightening. Recruitment, retention, recession - remorse.
Were companies to examine their own assumptions on hiring and firing, they would find a pervasive and self-destructive premise: old is bad. But as Beverly Goldberg argues in _Age Works_, employers - indeed, society as a whole - have built this premise on an ill-considered, ill-defined congeries of prejudices and presuppositions. Believe it or not, Americans age 55 and above take fewer sick days, adapt to new technologies successfully, and are more loyal to their employer than are their colleagues thirty years younger. And perhaps more importantly, they may be the only untapped workforce available. As hidebound organizations throw fortunes at untested youth, others more far-seeing (including Travelers, GTE, and Baxter Health Care) actively recruit, train, and depend upon senior workers. In a shrinking labor market, corporations and their HR departments may find a surprising competitive advantage in coaxing older employees away from the brink of an often sterile and impoverished retirement.
Eager to dismiss this challenge to their standard practices, naysayers and doomsayers will demand proof. Fortunately _Age Works_ reads more like a position paper than a business book, and like any good position paper, it's loaded with facts. Age Works is the ideal volume for anyone itching for a statistical analysis of the American workforce 1950-2050, in all its hues and strata. Arguably Goldberg's love of statistics verges on addiction, but in the pharmacy of authorial dependence, statistics are a pretty benign habit. More distracting, although again less than fatal, is the book's policy-wonk style. Goldberg stands foursquare in the school of tell-'em-what-you're-going-to-tell-'em, tell-'em-, tell-'em-what-you-told-'em, and _Age Works_ sometimes reads like an executive summary that cannot bear to end.
Nonetheless, _Age Works_ is a cogent, serious, undeniably well-supported piece. Even those who resist the proposed solutions (admittedly the book's weakest section) will find the diagnosis difficult to dispute. Like it or not, America's workforce will continue to grow smaller and grayer over the next twenty years. And by the time the population bounces back, corporations' hiring practices will have appealed to all ages - or to none.
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Title: Age Power: How the 21st Century Will Be Ruled by the New Old by Ken Dychtwald, Ken, Phd Dychwaltd ISBN: 1585420433 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 21 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Prime Time: How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement and Transform America by Marc Freedman ISBN: 1586481207 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Age Wave: How the Most Important Trend of Our Time Will Change Our Future by Kenneth, Ph.D. Dyctwald, Joe Flower, Ken Dychtwald ISBN: 055334806X Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd Pap) Pub. Date: February, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Gray Dawn: How the Coming Age Wave Will Transform America-And the World by Peter G. Peterson ISBN: 0812990692 Publisher: Times Books Pub. Date: 26 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Don't Stop the Career Clock: Rejecting the Myths of Aging for a New Way to Work in the 21st Century by Helen Harkness ISBN: 0891061274 Publisher: Davies-Black Pub Pub. Date: April, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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