Knowledge retention at work and aging

Anne Burmeister; David Rooney

doi:10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_307-1

Knowledge retention at work and aging

Anne Burmeister
, David Rooney

Professorship of Business Psychology, in Particular Differential Psychology and Aptitude Diagnostics

Macquarie University

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Geropsychology
Editors	Nancy Pachana
Number of pages	7
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Publication date	2017
Pages	1291-1297
ISBN (Print)	978-981-287-081-0
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-287-082-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-080-3_307-1
Publication status	Published - 2017

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Research areas and keywords

Business psychology
Knowledge Transfer
Young Worker
Authentic Learning
Knowledge Retention
High Order Thinking Skill

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