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Employers can't afford to ax mature workers, say researchers:
In a new article in the Australian Journal of Management, researchers warn employers not to make hasty decisions in either dismissing or discounting the input of older workers.
"Employers are well known for targeting mature workers when downsizing their workforce—but this might be a costly mistake," says Dr. Valerie Caines.
She notes that governments can also overlook the value of older workers, as shown by the SA Government recently pulling its funding to DOME (the Don't Overlook Mature Experience training organization), which provided valuable support services to mature job seekers.
"A common mistake is to think of mature workers as all being the same," says Dr. Caines. "There is huge variation among mature workers' motivations, capabilities and needs. Their experience is especially valuable now, because mature workers can offer considerable value to an organization during a crisis and play an important role in helping a business progress to the 'next normal.'"
Dr. Caines says older workers may also hold the solution for filling employment gaps in organizations, due to diverse skill sets they have developed through their working life.
"Mature adults demonstrate considerable resilience," she says. "The aspect of role modeling resilience is an especially important influence on younger workers. It includes mature coping strategies, emotional intelligence and empathy—and these attributes have never been more important in the workforce."
Journal Reference:
Valerie Dawn Caines et al. Older workers: Past, present and future, Australian Journal of Management (2020). DOI: 10.1177/0312896220918912
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday June 30 2020, @05:56PM (6 children)
Life is vastly different for those who go DO what they are dreaming about, when they are 20. My list of "to do" things? I worked on them early in life. I wanted to see the Arctic Circle, so I went to see it. I wanted to see the Suez Canal, so I went there. I wanted to do a lot of things, so I went, and did them.
It's hard to relate with those who hope to visit Paris "some day", and never make it. They work for 30, 40, 50 years of their lives, dreaming about Paris. They reach retirement - and bad health puts the nix to all their plans.
If I have any advice for young people, it would be, "Get off the couch, get out the door, and LIVE LIFE!!"
Want to see the Mojave desert, to see if it's as pretty as all the pictures? Don't wait until you can afford it. Walk outside your door, step onto Moebius Highway, and take your ass to the Mojave. Yeah, it's as pretty as any picture - and far deadlier than any picture. Ditto for the Badlands, and many other places in the US. Then, there are all the places outside the US.
If you want to see it, go see it! Now! You're not getting any younger, after all!
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2020, @07:45PM
Good idea, but we can't. Governments have locked us down.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Tuesday June 30 2020, @07:52PM
I'll adapt your life experience and wisdom to the following: Go ahead and stay on the couch and watch TV. Just bring them both to the places you want to go, and do it *there*. "Yeah, I wanted to go to the Mojave, and I did it! I think I saw a few scorpions and a coyote during the commercials."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2020, @10:11PM (3 children)
And that's easy to do if your dreams are within easy financial reach in your 20s. If you ever dreamt bigger than "go to place", or you weren't born to relatively well-off parents, you might have to wait until your 40s to be able to afford pursuing your dreams, if you ever can.
You did well out of the birth lottery, good for you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @01:22AM (1 child)
If you have children (and aren't irresponsible or rich), it's pretty much mandatory to have to downgrade from "chasing your dreams" to "having a hobby".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @10:10PM
Call the whaaaaaambulance!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 01 2020, @02:20AM
Not so much the birth lottery, as making people want to PAY ME to go see those places. :^)
So, I didn't get rich on it, but I made a living.
Hail to the Nibbler in Chief.