Ageing Workforce: A Case Study

Ageing workforce is defined as employees that age around 40 years old or more (Bockman et al, 2008). The ageing workforce is impossible to avoid as it is a natural process that will happen to everyone. It can affect not only the fellow colleagues and the organization but also the society (Florea 2016, pp. 30-35). The ageing workforce employee although they have more experience but as they grow older their performance at work become slower compared to the younger employees. This is a concerning issue especially to a rapid development organization as they need their employees to always be on standby mode and adaptability to various kind of situations and by having high percentage of older employees in an organization, it can definitely affect

Human resource management have to give more attention towards older employees’ recruitment in order to prevent the company from having a shortage of skilled employees. According to (Walker 2005), equal employment opportunities must be taken into consideration when recruiting older employees because this age group should not be discriminated against its age. The organizations should consider to increase maximum age limits and maintain positive work condition (Fabisiak & Prokurant 2012). By recruiting the older workers may benefits the company more rather than to retrench them as the older employees are more experience in their job. Also, the newly hired employees should be given a training in order for them to get used to all the company’s in and out working arrangement. For instance, after recruiting and selecting new employees, training will be provided to the new employees together with the older employees to improve their knowledge and to get used to the company’s work environment. This can be seen in Uppsala University Hospital where they give training to their employees by pairing the older and younger employees so that the younger employees can learn from the older employees and vice

According (Kuperus et al. 2011), early retirement sometimes can be affiliated to health issues. Therefore, it is important to maintain the safety and health for the comapny. Theoretically, a certain standard health management can help to avoid health problems especially for the older employees. A study by (Tuomi et al. 2001) has showed that having hobbies and doing physical exercises during free time could give a positive impact to the person’s health and productivity. Organizations take a various action to intensify the healthy benefit. According to (Kuperus et al. 2011), organizations could take up several measures for instance the occupational health and safety services, employee’s checkup, health and safety trainings and healthier programs. As we can see in the Google company in California, they have created a healthy work environment to encourage a healthy lifestyle to their employees. Google has been creating a stress free work environment which by having the non-stop food supple so that the employees can work while eating. They also provide gym facilities as their employee can work out whenever they feel the need to. This could improve the work quality, productivity beside having a healthy work