The Palgrave Handbook of Age Diversity and Work

This Handbook incorporates a variety of disciplines and approaches in order to provide a comprehensive and authoritative examination of the issues that result from increasing age diversity at work. Despite interest in this area exploding over the past few years amongst academics, practitioners and policy makers, the analysis of age diversity has remained primarily within disciplinary ‘silos’ such as Psychology or Sociology with a focus on ageing or generational differences, rather than a combination of approaches to understanding age diversity. Unique in its coverage of multiple perspectives, it considers not only generational and ageing perspectives to age diversity, but also highlights the importance of context in driving both the impact and response to this issue. The Palgrave Handbook of Age Diversity and Work includes contributions from leading scholars in age and generational diversity from across the world, discussing cutting-edge research findings about the nature andimpact of age diversity and presenting approaches to managing this phenomenon. 

• Workplace
• Millenials
• Generation X
• Human Resource management
• Generational
• sociology

• Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, Bedford, United Kingdom

  Emma Parry

• Department of Personnel and Employment Relations, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland

  Jean McCarthy

Emma Parry is a Professor of Human Resource Management at Cranfield School of Management, UK. Emma leads several international research projects including “Cranet”, an international network of scholars examining the impact of national context on human resources policies and practices, and “5C” a global academic collaboration looking at the impact of national culture and age on careers.  Emma is an Honorary Fellow for the Institute of Employment Studies and an Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). 

Jean McCarthy is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management & Organisational Behaviour at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Ireland. She is also a Global Research Associate with the Sloan Center on Aging & Work at Boston College and co-director of the Age in the Workplace Research Network (AWR-net), an international network of researchers seeking to address issues associated with age, generations and diversity at work, and has served as an advisor on ageing and ageism policy direction.

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