With rising life expectancy and an ageing population, corporations are not only seeing more older workers wanting to stay employed but also older workers who report to younger supervisors. While older workers are generally valued as a rich resource for corporations to tap on based on their experience and expertise, their presence, especially when they have to report to younger managers, presents a certain tension. In their book Managing the Older Worker: How to Prepare for the New Organizational Order, Peter Cappelli and Bill Novelli suggest specific strategies and practices for younger managers to manage the “grey hairs” more effectively.
The thrust of the tension, which the authors concede might be an oversimplification, is that “younger managers don’t really know how to manage older workers – and older workers don’t know how to get what they need from their younger managers”. The book is divided into two main parts under the headings of “dispelling the myths about older workers” and “managing the older worker”.
See full Article.
Posts
