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Surveying the Quality of Ageing at Work: Tools and Findings to Support HRM Processes

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Recent reforms of statutory age to retire throughout Europe have shown the need – within work organizations – for HR policies to be able to face the challenges of an increasing employees’ mean age and of an imbalanced age mix among the labor force.

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Marcaletti, F., Garavaglia, E. (2016). Surveying the Quality of Ageing at Work: Tools and Findings to Support HRM Processes. In: Re-thinking Diversity. Management – Culture – Interpretation. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-11502-9_9

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