Organizing Age

Age is the silent shaper of work organizations and their human resource practices. It has become a potent feature of how society is structured and how it views itself. Age assumptions mould the behaviours of young and old alike, and are used as political tools by policy makers and managers. Organizing Age asks the perennial question - can age ever not matter? Drawing on range of social scientific and popular writings, this book casts a critical eye over the social construction and politicization of age in and beyond organizations. Amongst other topics, it discusses: the historical roots of age in society; how we 'perform' our age in different settings; the social impact of defining age groups as generations; ageism; the effect of an age-cluster on an organization's processes and members' experience; the rituals of retirement and the birth of the retirement industry; the impact of economic recession in challenging some of our assumptions about age; and the increasing politicization of the growing 'grey' population. Organizing Age provides an accessible introduction to the current and emerging themes around this topic, which will be an invaluable resource for students, academics, and policy makers.

ISBN 0199578052   Pages 192 ISBN13 9780199578054 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 316 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford University Press   Height (mm) 234 Format Paperback   Width (mm) 165 Publication date 05 May 2011   Spine width (mm) 14 DEWEY 302.35084   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

Preface; 1. Why Age?; 2. Age Work; 3. Generations; 4. Ageism; 5. Capturing Age Cohorts; 6. Retirement; 7. A New Age?

Timely and relevant ... a valuable contribution to a field of study that is attracting more and more scholarly attention, rightly so. I recommend this text as an essential read for anyone interested in this topic area, but also as a supplementary text on academic courses that adopt a critical perspective on analysing aspects of individual difference in the workplace, and how these are managed by organizations. Nick Rumens, Management Learning

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