Introduction to Tools for retaining Mature Age Workers
This section provides a range of very simple people-management tools that you may download, add your business logo, change as you wish and use in your work place. More tools, and tools of greater complexity, are available through your industry group or through http://www.ahri.com.au
Employers and managers In Australia will soon have to face two new business challenges:
- A marked decrease in the numbers of young people entering the workforce, and
- The aging of their customer base.
As they say, "it won't happen overnight - but it will happen".
The information on this web site has been designed to help employers and managers to see the challenges and opportunities presented by this major demographic change.
One thing that won't change, however, is the fact that good business practices will find opportunities where there were none before. Businesses really in tune with their customer's changing needs will be quick to see the benefits of recruiting with a wider net to gain employees with more diverse backgrounds and skills. They will also see the advantages of fully utilising the experience and talent of older workers (whose age may closely match the age of the growing mature customer base.)
The tools below are intended to provide a starter-kit to assist employers understand and take full advantage of this demographic
change.
The tools address the areas of:
- Planning: for the workers you will need
- Recruiting: possibly looking beyond the usual boundaries
- Training: to ensure that all workers have current skills
- Understanding:
the retirement intentions of your staff so you have plenty of opportunity
to put alternative strategies into place - Redundancy:
so that if the worst comes to the worst you will be able to retrench in a
way that provides opportunities for the staff your business can no longer accommodate
