Employers need to rethink their recruitment and talent management practices to help older people stay in work, says The Co-operative Group HR director, Food, Helen Webb.
Business and government need to urgently address problems surrounding over-50s employment to avoid a “talent gap”, Business in the Community (BITC) has stated.
HR professionals must focus much more on “life stages”, as well as characteristics such as age and religion, deputy chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) Caroline Waters has said.
Organisations need “integrated programmes” and formal policies to ensure they retain and make the most of older workers, according to research from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.
Age discrimination and unconscious bias are “widespread problems” in the UK, according to a report from the government’s business champion for older workers Ros Altmann.
Older workers are the key to stopping the UK falling off a “workplace cliff” – caused by a lack of active labour market participants – according to Penna CEO Gary Browning.
People over 50 have a higher chance of remaining out of work after losing a job than younger people, Business in the Community (BITC) research has suggested.
The Roffey Park 2015 Management Agenda reveals employees in more junior positions are more likely to view diversity as a ‘tick box’ exercise.
A leading diversity campaigner has encouraged HRDs and MDs to see diversity as more than a statistic and to integrate it into the business agenda.
A friction between working styles means senior executives find working with Millennials stressful, according to London Business School adjunct professor of organisational behaviour Richard Jolly.
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HR directors believe that three in 10 of their employees will struggle to perform their current roles when they reach retirement age, according to research by MetLife Employee Benefits.
