Lost Knowledge: Confronting the Threat of an Aging Workforce
David W. DeLong
Abstract
This book shows how the cost of losing human knowledge in a technology-intensive world seriously affects organizational success. It explains what leaders must do to retain critical know-how as millions of aging baby boomers begin retiring from the workforce in the next decade. This aging workforce will produce an unprecedented skills shortage in many sectors. Particularly at risk is the tacit or experiential knowledge needed to maintain high levels of performance in today's complex technological, scientific, and management fields. The book shows how this threatened loss of intellectual capital ... More
Keywords: skills shortage, knowledge management, workforce planning, workforce demographics, intellectual capital, brain drain, tacit knowledge, knowledge retention, labor shortage, baby boomers
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2004 | Print ISBN-13: 9780195170979 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195170979.001.0001 |
