Ageing, Organisations and Management: Constructive Discourses and Critical Perspectives

Book Overview

Part I. Introduction.- 1. Why Study Ageing in Organisations?; Iiris Aaltio, Albert J. Mills and Jean Helms Mills.- Part II. Age in Discourse and Myth.- 2. Age and the Notion of the Liquid Modern; Shelley Price, Christopher M. Hartt and Anthony R. Yue.- 3. Rectifying Age-Related Employment Problems through the Constructions of the 'Problematic' Older and Younger Worker; Cara Lynn Scheuer and Albert J. Mills.- 4. Ageing, Gender and Leadership: Study of the Film Trilogy "The Lord of the Rings"; Iiris Aaltio. Part III. Age as Career.- 5. Late Career and Retirement in the Context of Changing Careers; Hanna Salminen and Monika von Bonsdorff.- 6. Talent Management and Older Workers: Later Life Career Development; Suzanne L. Cook and Victoria Rougette.- 7. Age Management in Organisations: The Perspective of Middle-Aged Employees; Pia Heilmann.- Part IV. Age and Gender at the Intersections of Organising and Managing.- 8. Ageing in the City: Embodied Ageing in Financial Services; leanne Cutcher and Kat Riach.- 9. Old Age as a Market Advantage: The Example of Staffing Agencies in Sweden; Elisabet Cedersund, Carin Holmquist, Gunilla Rapp and Elisabeth Sundin.- 10. Reconciling Employment and Caregiving: Good Workplace Practices and Arrangements; Kaisa Kauppinen and Mia Silfver-Kuhalampi.- 11. Career, Care and Time: Women Top Managers in the Intersections of Age, Gender, and Work/Family Workplace Practices and Arrangements; Marjut Jyrkinen, Charlotta Niemist? and Jeff Hearn.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319588125
• ISBN13: 9783319588124
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"