Recruiting Older Workers: Realities and Needs of the Future Workforce

This chapter examines literature pertaining to the recruitment of older workers. It begins by addressing the question of relevance and why older worker recruitment matters. It then examines what is known about older workers, including their attitudes, motivations, and behaviors. Next the chapter addresses what employers are looking for in older workers and, more specifically, discusses the continuum of employers’ practices from those that aggressively try to attract and retain older workers and apply a conservation model of older worker management to those that apply a depreciation model and focus primarily on retrenchment and downsizing older employees. Finally, it addresses how employers can recruit older workers through changes in organizational policies and practices

Aging, Retirement and Human Resources Management: A Strategic Approach

This chapter introduces the organizational view of retirement by exploring the relationship between organizational strategy and human resource management decisions regarding retirement. The authors begin with an overview of organizational strategy and discuss two methods used to plan for an aging and retiring workforce. Several key human resource decisions related to retirement are then addressed. In the pre-retirement phase, the role of HR In helping employees to prepare for retirement Is discussed, focusing primarily on financial planning and other retirement-related benefits. Next, human resource decisions pertaining to managing a retirement-ready workforce are discussed, addressing specifically the issues of knowledge transfer and motivating performance. Finally, interactions with individuals after retirement are discussed by looking at recruitment and bridge employment

Putting off Tomorrow to Do What You Want Today: Planning for Retirement

In this article we note that in the coming years, a larger number of people will be experiencing retirement for a longer period of time than ever before and that despite this fact, many will find themselves unprepared for this stage of their lives. We review the literature on retirement preparation, structuring our review around the key questions that need to be addressed when planning for retirement: (a) What will I do? (b) How will I afford it? (c) Where will I live? and (d) Who will I share it with? We make a number of suggestions for research and practice. We conclude that although psychology has begun to play a role in understanding and addressing retirement preparation, there are considerable opportunities for psychologists to engage with this issue in their research and applied work

ATP Certification Training Program

Bridging the Knowledge Gap Between a Commercial Pilot and a Pilot Operating in an Air Carrier Environment

Stepping out to make a step up through testing interventions

This study was to evaluate how the Glen Landing Middle School Afterschool Academic Assistance and Investigation and Analysis Intervention Programs impacted the seventh and eighth grade students\u27 language arts and mathematics skills. The population for this study involved 101 seventh and eighth graders who, during the previous school year, either tested below the 40th percentile on the TerraNova and/or failed one or more subjects. The results of the TerraNova and GEPA test scores were the basis for the primary data. The data analysis used structured case studies of the students who were divided into two categories. Those students taking the TerraNova and those taking the GEPA were used in the data analysis. The study looked for scores above the 40th percentile on the TerraNova test and the Proficient Level on the GEPA. While there was some general improvement of the scores for both groups, not all students achieved the desired level

Owning professional development: The power of teacher research

Typically teachers experience professional development as something that is presented with minimal opportunity for teacher choice and decision-making. Yet when teachers have the opportunity to go beyond the conventional discussion of what works and instead pursue questions about their classroom practices and the factors that shape it, teachers experience a new source of motivation and transform the way in which they view themselves and their work. This qualitative research study explores teacher research as a meaningful form of professional development. It is centered on eight middle school mathematics teachers who reflect about their participation in a mathematical discourse project and their individual efforts of conducting teacher research. Two broad questions frame this study: Why do teachers choose to come together for professional development? What does it mean to do teacher research as professional development? In order to pursue this dissertation topic, I used focus-group and individual interviews to gather data. Three significant findings are related to reflective practice, collaborative learning, and teacher identity. This study shows that when teachers reflect within a supportive community on their beliefs and on their practices as revealed by videotape, the comparison can serve as a catalyst for classroom research. The teacher-research experience provided a means by which the teachers reimaged themselves as knowers and interpreters of their classroom practices. This study has implications for administrators, mathematics supervisors, and teachers who are interested in understanding issues related to teacher research and professional development

Williams v. Shipping Corp. of India and Rex v. Cia. Pervana de Vapores, S.A.: The Seventh Amendment and the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976

Suits against foreign sovereigns and their agents or instrumentalities are being brought in increasing numbers by American citizens and businesses in the United States court to resolve legal disputes, both at the federal and state levels. Although formerly absolutely prohibited, suits against foreign sovereigns acting in various commercial and business capacities have been allowed in the United States since the 1940s. In response to both the multitude of foreign policy and legal problems, and the general confusion arising out of the attempts by the executive and judicial branches of government to decide whether foreign sovereign immunity should be granted in United States courts, Congress enacted the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FISA). The FISA codified what is commonly called the restrictive theory of foreign sovereign immunity, which allows American plaintiffs to bring suit against foreign sovereigns acting in a commercial or business capacity