Determining the next step: how organizations and aging employees determine whether to stay or to go

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to discuss the guiding principles for how to find solutions to a complex problem facing HR professionals: What to do with those who could or should retire and move on to the next stage of their lives?

Design/methodology/approach

The author offers five guiding principles that may help you find a solution suited to your organization. These principles should help you assess where to focus your efforts and how to build a plan for moving forward. He then provides several potential solutions for HR professionals and their aging workforce to consider.

Findings

The challenge to the human resource professional and the organization’s executives is to understand these guiding principles and develop solutions that work for the organization, business conditions and people.

Originality/value

With these guiding questions and considerations in mind, HR professionals can better help their aging workforce stay, go or find a solution in between.

Citation

Wilson, T. (2020), "Determining the next step: how organizations and aging employees determine whether to stay or to go", Strategic HR Review, Vol. 19 No. 3, pp. 111-115. https://doi.org/10.1108/SHR-03-2020-0019