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Work performance and the older worker Assignment

   

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BUSINESS SHOULDVALUE OLDEREMPLOYEES THANYOUNGER ONES
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NUMBER OF WORDS – 1250ESSAY SUBMISSION DATE - 17th May, 2018
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INTRODUCTIONThe essay is going to argue that businesses needs to value older employees over youngerones because they are more experienced, beneficial and reliable for the organisations. However,in employment, wages are improved by older generation because of the wage disparity that canexist in various age groups of the younger employees between the age of 22 to 28. The reportwill provide arguments and counter arguments on both sides. Although, the argument is going tothe reason for which companies should value older workers between the age of 50 to 65 thanyounger ones. It will explore that why employing the younger employees is much better thanretaining the older ones, as older workers have less potential to execute their roles as well asresponsibility as compared to young workers in context of technology. Along with it, the reporthighlights the importances of keeping the older employees than younger ones and the youngeremployees than older ones. Also, the advantage and disadvantage of both of them. ESSAYAs per the view of Anitha (2015), an organisation should hire more old workers as theyhave experience and they might contribute to the increase in productivity of firm. The authoralso have stated that older employees are more productive as compared to younger workers.However, it has been critiqued that, appointing the older workers lead to the discrimination atworkplace and further might give rise to ethical or legal issues. According to the opinion of Ertas(2015), an older workers have knowledge and experiences which can be helpful in bringingpositive and drastic improvement at workplace. It has been argued that appointing the olderworkers can give rise to the increase in grievances by younger employees. It can also lead to Jobinsecurity and high level of dissatisfaction in young workers. According to the view of Kerr(2015), older people have more potential to work for long time. The author also states that skillsas well as abilities of older workers are not declining as increase in age. He also stated that Smartworkers have knowledge about the techniques which can be applied in order to gain advantagesof change in their strengths. However, it has been argued that Lincoln (2015), older age workersmight face difficulty in performing some function which can have adverse effect on the routinebusiness activities. It has also been argued that speed of information processing information andepisodic memory declines with increase in age. According to the opinion of Zwick (2015), theother functions such as speech, semantic memory and language which older people utilised forperforming their routine roles as well as responsibilities at workplace. Training is more prevalent
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