Ageless Talent: Enhancing the Performance and Well-Being of Your Age-Diverse Workforce
About this ebook
Ageless Talent introduces a straightforward framework (PIERA) that translates scientific advances into actionable steps and strategies. Using this framework, this book provides practical illustrations to help readers design their own small-scale interventions to achieve desirable goals under diverse organizational constraints. Furthermore, the book addresses modern management challenges arising across the globe, and offers suggestions for leaders interested in short-term and long-term change. These suggestions, grounded in time-tested and leading-edge research evidence, include specific step-by-step guidelines, customizable to different types of organizations and industries.
With economic, cultural, technological, and demographic shifts making the changing nature of work a pressing concern for organizations around the globe, Ageless Talent is an essential text for practitioners – HR professionals, organizational leaders, and managers – as well as management education programs and professional training and leadership programs. It will also appeal to instructors and students in the field of industrial/organizational psychology.
About the author
Lisa M. Finkelstein is Professor of Industrial/Organizational Psychology at Northern Illinois University. She is Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research.
Donald M. Truxillo is Professor at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Ireland and Professor Emeritus at the Industrial/Organizational Psychology Program at Portland State University. He is Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the American Psychological Association, and the Association for Psychological Science.
Franco Fraccaroli is Professor of Organizational Psychology at Trento University, Italy. He is Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the International Association of Applied Psychology. He served as President of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology.
Ruth Kanfer is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Work Science Center at Georgia Institute of Technology. She is Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Academy of Management.
