Employing Older Workers in Contemporary Organizations

EMPLOYING OLDER WORKERS
IN CONTEMPORARY
ORGANIZATIONS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION-..........................................................................................................................3
Case study 1- Education sector .......................................................................................................3
Case study 2- Care for training........................................................................................................5
Recommendation- ...........................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION-..............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION-
Employing aged worker in contemporary companies bring many issues, that influence on
work performance of younger applicants and decrease productivity (Earl and Taylor, 2015).
Along with this, by employing experienced workers in firm, business will gain many benefits
that increase productivity and profit margin. The present report is based on two case studies
belong to different sector. It explains, reason behind adopting strategies to recruit older worker
and justifies challenges and benefits associated with having an aged workforce.
Case study 1- Education sector
Queen Alexander college is one of the chosen organization in Education sector, they
educate students above age of 16 with autism, visual impairment and other disabilities. It
employed more than 200 workers in workplace. College recruit older applicants by adopting
different type of strategies, such as they communicate to potential workers that have the
knowledge, capability to meet learners particular needs and objective of business. With the help
of communication strategy, Queen Alexander college will hire the most appropriate skilled
labour how are able to provide better services (Smedley, 2017). This outcomes in employees
aged over 50 being among those hired. Company adopt communication strategy to recruit older
people in workplace because word of mouth is one of the best way that business were used and
recruit older candidates. It helps to satisfied worker and make them able to felt valued by its
firms, people passed on this information to its personal connection which also work effectively
for attracting more applicants towards business. Communication resulted in perfect matches
between new workers and culture of college. Recruitment strategies provide many benefits to
company as it helps to recruit and select excellent workers in workplace how are able to
contribute in competitive business environment. With the help of hiring older workers through
external recruitment procedure, organization gain benefits of having experienced workforce.
Challenges and benefits of having older workforce-
According to the Ng and Law, (2014) motivation, development and employee retention is
considered as Human resource management practice in organization in which HR manager play
vital role. HRM apply different kinds of recruitment and retention strategies in order to recruit
and retain talented applicants. Queen Alexander college used communication recruitment
strategy to hire older people because they are able to perform effectively and efficiently. To have
older employees in workplace company obtain many benefits as they are capable to provide