Good Practice Guides

Managing a Healthy Ageing Workforce: a small and medium sized enterprise business imperative

Leaders of small and medium sized enterprises face some of the greatest challenges: they were amongst the hardest hit by the recession, face chronic skills shortages, and rarely have the time to plan how to meet demographic challenges. Older workers, with their wealth of experience, can provide SME’s solutions to big workforce challenges. This guide, produced for the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives, is targeted to SME’s- providing practical ideas on how to make best use of older workers’ skills and experience. It is based on discussions with SME leaders in Scotland and the South East.

Managing a Healthy Ageing Workforce: a business imperative

This guide was produced for the CIPD and Scottish Healthy Working Lives. Its aim is to support Human Resource professionals in demonstrating the business case within their organisations of developing innovative approaches to managing age. We know that the most effective age management strategies are ones which are developed and supported by not just HR, but all parts of the organisation: finance, marketing, occupational health to name a few. This guide is aimed at helping HR specialists demonstrate that managing age well will help their businesses attract customers, maintain productivity, save money and develop the most innovative ideas.