HRD for an Ageing Workforce

Nemeskéri, Zsolt; Zádori, Iván; Tibold, Antal; Szécsi, Gábor

This chapter explores the differences of the perception of workability among the employees of companies who draw the main dimensions of future human resource development practices. In the future, global trends will influence the labour market (technological changes, robotisation and artificial intelligence) in which the gradual increase of work performance will have a crucial role. This can only be achieved by boosting knowledge intensity which requires continuous knowledge transfer between generations. The Work Ability Index methodology has been used to develop such a predictive tool in the future through a deeper statistical analysis of the results. Age management strategies (part-time, transformed/customised jobs) may be developed where ageing employee groups can deal with knowledge transfer and other key roles and where this social group can also become more active in the labour market.