Diversity in Organisationen
- Age Diversity and HR-Practice
Extending working lives has become a major issue in dealing with global population aging over the past decade. Different equality laws have been introduced in order to protect the rights of older workers in the UK. Now, ten years after introducing the age-discrimination legislation in 2006, age-discrimination, even though illegal, is still a prevalent phenomenon, in particular in hiring. This leads to the question, what can be done (above legal adjustments) to prevent discriminative behaviour in HR-selection? Addressing this research question, I have developed an agenda of research on diversity in hiring. One of the key objectives of this research is to explore how people make decisions and to identify ways of improving decision-making in hiring. (Project funding from Central Research Fund: Competitive Funding Call 2015, GBP 13,347.50)
- Intergenerational Knowledge Transfer
The aging workforce will be one of the main challenges for organisations in the future. In this context, the retention of knowledge from retiring and highly-skilled older workers has been identified as key factor for organisational functioning. So far, research on intergenerational knowledge transfer in organisations is scarce. In cooperation with the University of Bern and Leuphana University of Lüneburg I have, therefore, initiated a new research project investigating the factors that influence successful intergenerational knowledge transfer in organisations.