The Palgrave Handbook of Age Diversity and Work [Hardcover]

This Handbook incorporates a variety of disciplines and approaches in order to provide a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the issues that result from increasing age diversity at work. Despite interest in this area exploding over the past few years amongst academics, practitioners and policy makers, the analysis of age diversity has remained primarily within disciplinary silos such as Psychology or Sociology with a focus on ageing or generational differences, rather than a combination of approaches to understanding age diversity. Unique in its coverage of multiple perspectives, it considers not only generational and ageing perspectives to age diversity, but also highlights the importance of context in driving both the impact and response to this issue. The Palgrave Handbook of Age Diversity and Work includes contributions from leading scholars in age and generational diversity from across the world, discussing cutting-edge research findings about the nature and impact of age diversity and presenting approaches to managing this phenomenon. 

1 Introduction (Emma Parry and Jean McCarthy).- Section 1: Perspectives on Age, Age Diversity and Ageing.- 2 What is old at work?: Moving past chronological age (Jeanette N. Cleveland and Madison Hanscom).- 3 Toward and identity-based approach for examining age in the workplace: perspectives and implications (Michael J. Urick).- 4 An integrative psychological perspective on (successful) ageing at work (Josje Dikkers, Annet De Lange and Beatrice Van der Heijden).- 5 Age, generations and the labour market (Peter Urwin and Emma Parry).- 6 From age diversity to embedded ageing: exploring and addressing aged assumptions in organizational practices (Sophie Hales and Kathleen Riach).- 7 Promoting workability for our ageing population (Deirdre FitzGerald, Alex Reid and Desmond ONeill).- Section 2: Older Workers.- 8 Healthy ageing alS5