The Brain and Experience Drain: Are You Prepared for a Retirement Tsunami?
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Publication Date:
August 05, 2003
What can an organization do to motivate and retain older workers without alienating future rising stars? Steps include: asking the most experienced technical and professional staff to mentor younger employees; making sure to assign experienced older employees as well as talented younger people to project work teams; encouraging discussion of generational issues in diversity training; rotating older workers in different assignments to diversify their work and allowing them to develop new skills; requiring all supervisors to take a course in stereotypes about older people, and how aging affects (and does not affect) physical and cognitive abilities.
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