Employing Older Workers in Contemporary Organisations

EMPLOYING OLDER WORKERS IN
CONTEMPORARY ORGANISATIONS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Benefits and strategies for recruiting the old workers.................................................................1
Challenges and strategies for recruiting older workers................................................................3
Recommendation.........................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Hiring the old workers in the contemporary organization it has lot of advantages for the
firm as the employee have good leadership skill, stronger communication as compare to the
young colleague and as experience they know what they want and remain loyal for the company
(Taylor and et.al., 2016). This report highlights the old employee benefits and challenges by
hiring them in the organization. Also reveal the strategies use by the company to recruit the old
employees. In this regard the present report has been prepared.
MAIN BODY
Theories and practices are important for the effective HRM as the theories of
management which are relies on mathematical and observation probability to make management
practices and perfect business model, which can draw upon the case studies & the genuine
experience which can drive for improvement (Angeloni and Borgonovi, 2016). Also, both
practices and theories are required to combined to achieve the great leadership and management
skill and also one of the large essential area where get the right balance of this element in the
Human resources.
While recruiting the old employees in the Contemporary organisation. Firm has to face
lot of issues such as the old employees are lack in talent as compare to the other new talented
candidates and are not able to balance the speed and have low in work efficiency. Old employees
are not having the ability to handle the using data or information effectively. To enhance the
performance of the employee Contemporary company uses various strategies to raise the
performance level such as set clear expectation of the company and make them clear. Make the
employee understand the objective through asking them with their own words (Bal and Jansen,
2015). Also, hiring the train manager which help the employees and lookout the employees that
are underperforming and find what root cause and trained them.
Case Study
Benefits and strategies for recruiting the old workers
Benefits of hiring the older worker in the Contemporary organization, there are several benefits
are their, that are.
Dedicated– Old workers are more dedicated towards the work and produce higher
quality in their work which help the British gas company for higher cost saving. Also, the
employee are highly committed in finding the other potentially for costly mistake regarding the
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misspelling of the client names and price and accounts mistakes can be reduced that can be
beneficial for the ASDA company (Hennekam, 2015). Additional to it because of dedicate in
nature it helps the company for increase in the productivity and profitability of the firm and make
the good repo of the organisation in the business market.
Punctuality- Old employee are seems to be more time punctuality as compare to the
current employees as they look for the future and are likely to arrive on time and always be ready
for the work. Punctuality creates a major impact on the British Gas and the ASDA company as
punctuality can create good work culture in the organisation which result in the higher
profitability of firm and also motivate the other employee to come on time.
Focused and attentive- These employees are more focused and attentive towards their
work, and they considered the organisation task or objective as their individual objective and try
to achieve the objective and become more attentive and focus on their work as compare to the
current employees ( Hennekam, 2016). Such focused old employee can reduce the mistake in the
British Gas company and reduce the cost and wider the diversity. Also, It is beneficial in the
ASDA company for more flexible in working and help to reduce the labour turnover because of
employee focus work.
Communication Skills- Older employees are good in communication skill as they are
experienced one, so they know well, that how and when communicate to the others and
understand the work environment and politics & how to convey message to the boss. Such
communication skill of the employee is more beneficial for the British gas and the ASDA
company for making good workplace and better understanding of the things (Juriševič, Brčić and
Mihelič, 2015). This can make the good environment in the organization and make the employee
more comfortable to understand the things at workplace.
Strategies used for recruiting old workers in the Contemporary organization.
Flexible Arrangement of work- These strategies are mainly used by the British Gas for
the older employees who are no longer want to work in traditional and full time schedule because
of many other region such as family care physical problems or energy due to age. Some old
employees work with an a enough saving and maintain enough living standards through lower
earning. Like providing the various flexible working which can be beneficial for the organisation
and also the employee can so it such as flex time that help the older employees to control on time
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