Do research on the organizational challenges you identified.

Psychology in Business

Instructions
Organizational Psychology Research Paper
Instructions
1. APA 7th
Edition Style Paper
2. APA 7th
Edition Title Page and Reference Page
3. 12
References and each reference must be less than five years old
4. 10 Pages
5. Double
Space
6. Book:
Robbins, S.P. & Judge, T.A.
(2019). Organizational
behavior. (18th ed.). Pearson.
7. Provide
Examples
Directions
The paper must include the following:

Using the questions as a guideline, identify the
organizational challenges the case incident presents. You are encouraged to add
questions of your own.

Do research on the organizational challenges you
identified.

Integrate and reference these research findings
by discussing how you see this research as applicable to the case incident.

Present an in-depth organizational analysis on how you
believe the research you found might resolve the challenges you identified in
the case incident.
For example: Using the Case Incident on The Encore Career,
you would be using the questions posted below the case as a guideline of what
to research. In this situation, you would be doing research related to age,
discrimination, stereotypes, retirement, culture and diversity, physical and
mental health issues and other factors relevant to older working adults. Then,
you would discuss your research findings applicable to The Encore Career case
incident.

Case
Incident: Encore Career
Daniel Sweere, HR Director for engineering firm Stanley
Consultants, is one of the growing number of management professionals actively
recruiting older workers. Sweere says older workers, typically, hit the ground
running much quicker and they fit into the organization well. They bring to the
job a higher level of skill level and have the right years of experience,
remember an industry, and know their aging customer base.
Tell that to the older co-worker who is unemployed, older
workers have long been sought by government contractors, financial firms, and
consulting firms, according to Cornelia Gamlen, president of consulting firm,
Gamlen Group Ltd, and she actively recruits them. However, The U.S. Department
of Labor Statistics reports that the average job search for an unemployed worker
age 55, is 56 weeks versus 38 weeks for the rest of the unemployed population.
Enter the Encore career, also unknown as unretirement.
Increasingly, older workers, who were not finding fulfilling positions are seeing
the opt-out of traditional roles after long careers in the work place, an
increasing number are embracing flexible, work from home positions, such as
customer service positions. For instance, Olga Howard, 71, signed an
independent contractor for 25-30 hours per week with Arise Virtual Solutions.
Handling questions for financial software company after her long-term career
ended. Others are starting a new business. Chris Farrell, author of
unretirement, said, Older people are starting businesses than any other group.
Others funnel into non-profit organizations, where the pay may not equal, the
individuals previous earning power, but the mission is strong. They need the
money and the meaning, said Encore.org, CEO Marc Freedman, still other are
adding additional education, such as Japans silver entrepreneurs, who have
benefited from the countrys tax credits for training older workers. Individuals
who embark on a second-act career often report they are very fulfilled.
However, the loss of workers from their long-standing careers may be
undesirable. In this knowledge economy, the retention of older workers gives
employers a competitive edge by allowing them to continue to tap a generation
of knowledge and skill, said Mark Schmidt, executive director of the Society
for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Foundation. New thinking by HR
professionals and employers will be required to recruit and retain them.
Otherwise, organizations greatest asset will walk out the door.
Questions to consider for Research
2-18. What changes in
employment relationships are likely to occur as the population ages?
2-19. Do you think increasing age diversity will create new
challenges for managers? What types of challenges do you expect will be most
profound?
2-20. How can organizations cope with differences related to
age discrimination in the workplace? How can older employees help?

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