Employing Older Workers in Contemporary Organizations

Employing older workers in
contemporary organizations

Table of Content
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Presenting three examples of good practices for employing older workers with justification....3
Discussing three key challenges in employing older workers and implication of these
challenges....................................................................................................................................5
Describing recommendations to overcome such challenges.......................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Employing older worker within organization will help to improve the economy and also
assist to meet workforce shortage as well. The current study is based upon different case studies
in which older employees are working because they are reliable source of skilled labour as
compared to younger generation. Therefore, the present study will help to understand different
good practices used by various company for employing older workers and then examine the
challenges face by different companies in order to employing older workers along with different
recommendations.
MAIN BODY
Presenting three examples of good practices for employing older workers with justification
Example 1
Lilian faithful Homes which is a registered charity based in Cheltenham. The company is
deal under the care home and also operates three residential care homes. It also committed to
operating age neutral recruitment policies, employing staff based on their ability without any
discrimination. It is the good practice run by the company and it provide a new chance to all
employees without any discrimination on the basis of age. For example, Elleen Trigg was
recruited at the age of 70 after being retire from a lifelong career as a bookbinder. Hence, this is
a good practice perform by the company and as a result, it helps to provide a stable workforce in
which there are many older workers which in turn reduce the cost of recruitment (Nilsson, 2018).
On the other side, flexible working and retention is a good practice run by Lilian faithful
Homes that help to support the business in order to retain the older workers for longer time
period. Through this practice employees are respond naturally by examining the need of their
staff as they get older and hence this ensured that workers are retained. Therefore, it can be
stated that by offering flexible working to employees will assist to boost morale and also
improve their physical and mental well-being. Hence this is an example which clearly reflected
that it retain employees and praise by other employees which in turn improve the working
performance.