Managing the Older Employee

How to interact more effectively with older subordinates at work?
Author(s): Casey Hawley
Publisher: Adams Business
Date of publication: 2009
Manageris opinion
Supported by her concrete experience coaching young managers, Casey Hawley offers valuable advice on how to manage older subordinates.
On many aspects of the relationship – time management, new technologies, taking initiative, etc. – she proposes concrete drivers to facilitate the integration of older workers and intergenerational cohabitation. Particular pertinent are chapters five, on communication practices; six, on how to motivate older workers; and nine, on the topics of innovation and creativity.
This book is pleasant to read and provides a highly operational set of
tools to help managers interact more effectively with older subordinates at work.