- To help human resources management to understand the benefits of employing an age-diverse workforce
- To develop an interactive e-learning age management course for use by HR staff and management
- To raise awareness of the role and contribution of older people in companies
- To encourage companies to retain older workers as a main source of experience and knowledge.
Who can benefit?
HR staff and top management within employing organisations including private and public companies and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
The manAGE e-learning course can facilitate the acquisition of essential knowledge and approaches to achieve a diverse age structure within companies.
Why age diversity?
There are many reasons for introducing age management policies:
- older workers provide a wide variety of skills and different outlooks
- older employees pass on their experience to younger colleagues
- retaining older workers avoids the expensive loss of skills
- recruiting older people can improve the corporate identity of the organisation
- diverse teams are better able to respond to the rapidly changing circumstances associated with globalisation
- in certain age-sensitive trades and companies older workers can respond more readily to changing customer wishes and needs.
