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List of contents
Contents: Introduction; Section One Age Discrimination and its context: Age Discrimination The next diversity issue; The Age Discrimination Regulations 2006; Demographic changes; Understanding your older workforce; Section Two Managing and Motivating the Older Worker: Changing attitudes and stereotypes; People management; Managing continuous change; Health and wellbeing; Section Three Practical Steps to Achieving an Age-Inclusive Culture: Recruiting and selecting older workers; Performance management; Lifelong learning; Leadership, promotion, career development and succession planning; Intergenerational working; New ways of working; Retirement, pensions and employment issues; Section Four Training and Implementation: Awareness-raising Session: influencing senior management; Awareness-raising session: cascading awareness on age discrimination throughout the organization; Implementation: one-day training programme to introduce age-inclusive working practices into your organization; Implementation: two-day programme to introduce age-inclusive working practices into your organization; Monitoring and evaluating progress; Conclusion.; Bibliography; Index.
Summary
Age Matters provides a comprehensive, innovative and positive approach to recent changes in the regulations and in demography, explaining the advantages and disadvantages of the 2006 legislation and its effect on current retirement practices. Use this book to understand the implications of demographic change and the employment law issues it raises.