This book focuses on the aging workforce from the employment relationship perspective. This
innovative book specifically focuses on how organizations can ensure their aging workers remain
motivated productive and healthy. In 15 chapters several experts on this topic describe how
organizations through effective human resource management can ensure that workers are able to
continue working at higher age. In addition this book discusses the role older workers
themselves play in continuing work at higher age. To do this the authors integrate research
from different areas such as literature on leadership psychological contracts and diversity
with literature on the aging workforce. Through this integration this book provides innovative
ways for organizations and workers to maintain productivity motivation and health. Aging
Workers and the Employee-Employer Relationship summarizes the latest research on how employment
relationships change with age and its implications for supporting the well-being motivation
and productivity of older workers. It identifies ways to improve how both companies and workers
solve the problems they face. These include better designed employment practices and more
adaptive job content and developmental opportunities for aging workers along with activities
aging workers can engage to enhance their own job crafting learning and employability.
