The SAGE Handbook of Aging, Work and Society

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4462-0782-6
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1137 g

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burn, Mannie

Field, John

Burke, Ronald J

Cooper, Cary L.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Alterssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Cooper, Cary L.
Cary L. Cooper is the 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. He is a founding President of the British Academy of Management, Immediate Past President of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), former President of RELATE and President of the Institute of Welfare. He was the Founding Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior, former Editor of the scholarly journal Stress and Health and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management, now in its’ 3rd Edition. He has been an advisor to the World Health Organisation, ILO, and EU in the field of occupational health and wellbeing, was Chair of the Global Agenda Council on Chronic Disease of the World Economic Forum (2009-2010) (then served for 5 years on the Global Agenda Council for mental health of the WEF) and was Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences 2009-2015. He was Chair of the Sunningdale Institute in the Cabinet Office and National School of Government 2005-2010. Professor Cooper is currently the Chair of the National Forum for Health & Wellbeing at Work (comprised of 40 global companies eg BP, Microsoft, NHS Executive, UK government (wellbeing lead), Rolls Royce, John Lewis Partnership, etc.). Professor Cooper is the author/editor of over 250 books in the field of occupational health psychology, workplace wellbeing, women at work, and occupational stress. He was awarded the CBE by the Queen for his contributions to occupational health; and in 2014 he was awarded a Knighthood for his contribution to the social sciences.

Burke, Ronald J
Ronald J. Burke is Professor Emeritus of Organization Studies at Schulich School of Business, York University.

Field, John
John Field is a Professor in the School of Education, University of Stirling, and Visiting Professor at Birkbeck, University of London. He has also worked at the University of Warwick and University of Ulster. His research focuses primarily on learning through the adult life course. His books include Lifelong Learning and the New Educational Order (2006), Social Capital (2008), and most recently Working Men's Bodies: Work Camps in Britain, 1880-1939 (2013).

Cary L. Cooper is Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health. He is the author/editor of over 120 books (on occupational stress, women at work and industrial and organizational psychology), has written over 400 scholarly articles for academic journals, and is a frequent contributor to national newspapers, TV and radio. He is currently Founding Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal Stress & Health. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, The Royal Society of Arts, The Royal Society of Medicine, The Royal Society of Public Health, The British Academy of Management and an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences. Professor Cooper is past President of the British Academy of Management, is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute and one of the first UK based Fellows of the (American) Academy of Management (having also won the 1998 Distinguished Service Award for his contribution to management science from the Academy of Management). In 2001, Cary was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for his contribution to occupational safety and health.