Ageing, Organisations and Management

Section 1. Introduction

1. Introduction: Why to Study Ageing in Organisations?
Iiris Aaltio, Albert J. Mills, Jean Helms Mills

Section 2. Age in Discourse and Myth

2. We the Inuit: Fluid Notions of Age and Non-corporeal Actants
Shelley T. Price, Christopher M. Hartt, Anthony R. Yue, Gretchen G. Pohlkamp

3. Reifying Age-Related Employment Problems Through the Constructions of the “Problematic” Older and Younger Worker
Cara Lynn Scheuer, Albert J. Mills

4. Ageing, Gender and Leadership: A Study Based on Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings

Iiris Aaltio

Section 3. Age as Career

5. Late Career and Retirement in the Context of Changing Careers
Hanna Salminen, Monika Bonsdorff

6. Talent Management and Older Workers: Later Life Career Development
Suzanne L. Cook, Victoria Rougette

7. Age Management in Organizations: The Perspective of Middle-Aged Employees
Pia Heilmann

Section 4. Age and Gender at the Intersections of Organising and Managing

8. Age in the City: Embodied Ageing in Financial Services
Leanne Cutcher, Kathleen Riach

9. Old Age as a Market Advantage: The Example of Staffing Agencies in Sweden
Elisabet Cedersund, Gunilla Rapp, Carin Holmquist, Elisabeth Sundin

10. Reconciling Employment and Caregiving: Good Workplace Practices and Arrangements
Kaisa Kauppinen, Mia Silfver-Kuhalampi

11. Career, Care, and Time: Female Top Managers in the Intersections of Age, Gender, and Work–Family
Marjut Jyrkinen, Charlotta Niemistö, Jeff Hearn

Section 5. Age at the Boundaries

12. Opportunity- and Necessity-Driven Self-Employment Among Older People in Finland
Hannu Tervo, Mika Haapanen

13. The Older as Entrepreneurs: A Diversified Group—Illustrated Through Entrepreneurship in Technical Consultancy and Artistic and Literary Work
Martin Klinthäll, Elisabeth Sundin

Section 6. Age in Transition

14. Intergenerational Interaction and the Benefits of Ageing Employees in a Nursing Home
Kristiina Niemi-Kaija

15. Reconceptualising Work-Retirement Transitions: Critiques of the New Retirement and Bridge Employment
Catherine Earl, Philip Taylor

Avainsanat: Business and Management, Human Resource Management, Organization, Sociology of Work, Innovation/Technology Management, Project Management