Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, When I'm 64?

Project details:
This project explores the implications of the ageing population from the perspective of the non-standard workforce. When the Beatles penned the title to the song this project has adopted as its title, it was 1967 and the baby boomer generation did not question expectations of full-time and life-long employment. The advent of economic restructuring and rationalisation in the 1980s have since created a very different world of work. It is a world that seems to be entering yet another phase as the reality of workforce demographics will see employers re-evaluating their reliance on new workers entering the workforce and instead, investigate ways to retain, retrain and maintain the sheer numbers and skills contained in the baby boom population.

Outcomes:

Journal Articles
Hanley, G. & McKeown, T, 2006. Baby boomerangs. Monash Business Review, 2 (2): 38-41.

Seminars
McKeown T., & Cochrane, R. 2005. The ageing local government workforce. Seminar presented to the Municipal Association of Victoria, 15 July.

Hanley, G. & McKeown, T. 2005. Australia’s grey-collar workforce: The ageing baby boomers. ACREW Research Seminar, Monash University, 14 November.

McKeown, T. 2006.Guest speaker and session facilitator at conference on Workforce Planning in Local Government, Local Government Association of Victoria, 6 February.

McKeown, T. & Hanley, G. 2006. Retaining, maintaining and sustaining the baby-boomer workforce. Guest presenters and workshop facilitators on workforce planning for an ageing population, Monansh University Research on the Ageing Society (MonRAS) Inaugural Conference, Monash University, 10 June.

McKeown, T. 2006. Managing the ageing workforce in Australia. Invited paper, International Seminar on Socio-Economic Development in the Guizhou Province, People’s Republic of China, 19-23 August.

Researchers:
Dr Tui McKeown Tui.McKeown@buseco.monash.edu.au
Dr Glennis Hanley Glennis.Hanley@buseco.monash.edu.au