TY - CHAP

T1 - Knowledge retention at work and aging

AU - Burmeister, Anne

AU - Rooney, David

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Workforces in most developed countries are aging because of the simultaneously operating trends of increased life expectancies and decreased birth rates (United Nations 2013). Due to the large numbers of very experienced older and retiring workers from the so-called baby boomer generation, organizations are facing an unprecedented and unintentional loss of valuable organizational knowledge (Beazley et al. 2002; Daghfous et al. 2013). When valuable employees retire, valuable knowledge retires with them if there are no effective knowledge management or human resource (HR) management processes in place to prevent it.

AB - Workforces in most developed countries are aging because of the simultaneously operating trends of increased life expectancies and decreased birth rates (United Nations 2013). Due to the large numbers of very experienced older and retiring workers from the so-called baby boomer generation, organizations are facing an unprecedented and unintentional loss of valuable organizational knowledge (Beazley et al. 2002; Daghfous et al. 2013). When valuable employees retire, valuable knowledge retires with them if there are no effective knowledge management or human resource (HR) management processes in place to prevent it.

KW - Business psychology

KW - Knowledge Transfer

KW - Young Worker

KW - Authentic Learning

KW - Knowledge Retention

KW - High Order Thinking Skill

U2 - 10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_307-1

DO - 10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_307-1

M3 - Articles for encyclopedia

SN - 978-981-287-081-0

SP - 1291

EP - 1297

BT - Encyclopedia of Geropsychology

A2 - Pachana, Nancy

PB - Springer

CY - Singapore

ER -