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Aging has emerged as a major and urgent issue for individuals, organisations and governments of our time.
In this well-timed and comprehensive handbook, key international contributors to the field of study come together to create a definitive map of the subject. Framed by an authoritative introductory chapter, the SAGE Handbook of Aging, Work and Society offers a critical overview of the most significant themes and topics, with discussions of current research, theoretical controversies and emerging issues, divided into sections covering:
Key Issues and Challenges; The Aging Workforce; Managing an Aging Workforce; Living in an Aging Society; Developing Public Policy
Age and Work Motives
Age and Work Motives
Age and Work Motives
Despite seemingly limitless admonitions regarding the aging of the world's population (e.g. United Nations, 2009), research on aging and work has only recently begun to directly consider the implication of such trends on workplace processes, such as the influence of an aging workforce on work motivation. Despite recent reviews (Kooij, de Lange, Jansen, and Dikkers, 2007; Kooij et al., 2011), primary research has yet to adequately address this topic directly, and of the literature that has in some way considered age along with motivational variables, certain methodological concerns may limit our ability to effectively draw conclusions about the influence of developmental processes in later life on work motivation.
Indeed, most of the research ...
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