Building on the experience of others

How does a changing workforce affect the way that employers consider diversity? Age is one dimension.

One speaker discussed the importance of “intergenerational fairness” – respecting the varying requests across generations.

• Achieving Cultural Competence: A Guidebook for Providers of Services to Older Americans and Their Families

  Achieving Cultural Competence (PowerPoint) | Source

• An Aging Workforce's Effect On U.S. Employers

  An Aging Workforce | Source

• Convergence of the Aging Workforce and Accessible Technology: The Implications for Commerce, Business and Policy

  The Convergence of the Aging Workforce And Accessible Technology (doc) | Source

• JobKite.com Survey Reveals Work/Life Balance Employee Benefits on the Rise in 2006

  JobKite.com Survey Reveals (PDF) | Source

• Multigenerational Diversity in U.S. Workplaces: Eliminating Intergenerational Conflict on Route to Organizational Success

Multigenerational Diversity in U.S. Workplaces (PDF) | Source

• Representation of Older Workers and the Culture of Information Technology

  The Representation of Older Workers and the Culture of Information Technology (PowerPoint) | Source

• Sources of Income for People Age 50 to 64 with Work Disabilities

  Sources of Income for People Age 50-64 (AARP) (PDF) | Source

• Diversity and the Multi-Generational Workforce
  Victoria Chester: Highmark, Inc.
  Tammie McNaughton: Highmark, Inc.
  Kenneth Spruill: PNC

Diversity and the Multi-Generational Workforce (PowerPoint)

Websites

• Age Discrimination in Employment Act

http://www.eeoc.gov/types/age.html

• Aging and Diversity On-line course
  

  http://www.ageworks.com/course_demo/380/module2/module2.htm#def

• American Association of Retired Persons

  http://www.aarp.org/

• American Association of Retired Persons Foundation

  http://aarpfoundationwlc.org/

• Center for Cultural Diversity in Aging

  http://www.culturaldiversity.com.au/Default.aspx?tabid=82