Dealing with an aging workforce: Locating threats and opportunities in corporate media

Kroon, Anne C.; Selm, Martine van; Hoeven, Claartje L. ter; Vliegenthart, Rens

doi:10.1080/03601277.2016.1218685

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“…The shortening product lifecycles [30,32] and the increasing concerns regarding the sustainability of the current disassembling processes impose a higher degree of flexibility. In addition, the ageing of the workforce in industrialized countries [33,34] is of particular importance, resulting in a new role for the human operator in the recycling facility, from machine operator to flexible problem solver and commanding collaborative robots for specific tasks.…”

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WEEE Recycling and Circular Economy Assisted by Collaborative Robots

2020

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Considering the amount of waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) generated each year at an increasing rate, it is of crucial importance to develop circular economy solutions that prioritize reuse and recycling, as well as reducing the amount of waste that is disposed of at landfills. This paper analyses the evolution of the amount of WEEE collection and its recycling rate at the national and European levels. It also describes the regulatory framework and possible future government policy measures to foster a circular economy. Furthermore, it identifies the different parts and materials that can be recovered from the recycling process with a special emphasis on plastics. Finally, it describes a recycling line that has been designed for the dismantling of computer cathodic ray tubes (CRT)s that combines an innovative participation of people and collaborative robots which has led to an effective and efficient material recovery solution. The key issue of this human–robot collaboration relies on only assigning tasks that require human skills to operators and sending all other tasks to robots. The first results from the model show a better economic performance than current manual processes, mainly regarding the higher degree of separation of recovered materials and plastic in particular, thus reaching higher revenues. This collaboration also brings considerable additional benefits for the environment, through a higher recovery rate in weight and for workers, who can make intelligent decisions in the factory and enjoy a safer working environment by avoiding the most dangerous tasks.

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WEEE Recycling and Circular Economy Assisted by Collaborative Robots

2020

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“…Aging workers bring valuable resources to the workplace because they have generally been with the company for a long time and have insight gained through longevity (Moore & Moore, 2014). Long-term workers are a valuable source of human capital, especially in regard to experience and education (Kroon, van Selm, ter Hoeven, & Vliegenthart, 2016). Realizing the value of older workers has been translated into a successful hiring strategy at several large American companies.…”

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“…human capital, especially in regard to experience and education (Kroon, van Selm, ter Hoeven, & Vliegenthart, 2016). Realizing the value of older workers has been translated into a successful hiring strategy at several large American companies.…”

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The Impact of an Aging Population in the Workplace

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Burns

Conlon

2018

Workplace Health Saf

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Evidence suggests that older Americans are working longer and spending more time on the job than their peers did in previous years. The increased number of older adults working longer is observed not only in the Unites States but also worldwide. There are numerous ramifications associated with the changing demographics and the expanding prevalence of an aging population in the workforce. Dynamics that arise include stereotyping and discrimination, longevity and on-site expert knowledge, variances in workplace behavior, a multigenerational employee pool, chronic disease management, occupational safety, and the application of adaptive strategies to reduce injury occurrences. Occupational health nurses play a pivotal role in implementing best practices for an aging-friendly workplace.

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“…All these factors underline the necessity to retain and retrain older employees. However, "employers are not eager to hire older workers, generally considering this group as a last resort" (Kroon et al, 2016). It seems that employers do not know lower turnover of older employees.…”

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“…The aging workforce seems to be an essential challenge for organizations and societies. This can be claimed due to the intense academic research in this field (see, e.g., Ashworth, 2006;McKinnon, 2010;Michaelis and Debus, 2011;Winkelmann-Gleed, 2011;Costa et al, 2012;Colley, 2014;Boenzi et al, 2015;Ciutiene and Railaite, 2015;Drabe et al, 2015;Park and Kim, 2015;Richert-Kazmierska, 2015;Antoniou et al, 2016;Kroon et al, 2016;Kaskie et al, 2017;Wisse et al, 2018).…”

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Workforce Ageing Issue and Its Management in the Baltic States

Vilkaitė-Vaitonė

2019

CAREP

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In this paper, we intended to analyze the consequences of an aging workforce. The main research question was formulated as follows: what results of aging workforce appear in organizations in the Baltic States? The paper considered the following implications of the aging workforce: a demand for age-specific Human Resources (HR) practices, an increase in labor productivity and decrease of innovativeness. The author fielded a representative questionnaire survey of chief executive officers (CEOs) in 102 organizations across the Baltic States and found out that the majority of CEOs do not identify the aging workforce as an essential concern. It was found out that age-specific HR practices are scarce in the Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian organizations. CEOs of organizations operating in the Baltic States tend to think that younger employees are more productive and more innovative than their older co-workers.

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Dealing with an aging workforce: Locating threats and opportunities in corporate media

Cited by 9 publications

References 40 publications

WEEE Recycling and Circular Economy Assisted by Collaborative Robots

WEEE Recycling and Circular Economy Assisted by Collaborative Robots

The Impact of an Aging Population in the Workplace

Workforce Ageing Issue and Its Management in the Baltic States

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