TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract As demographic changes impact the workplace, governments, organizations, and workers are looking for ways to sustain optimal working lives at higher ages. Workplace flexibility has been introduced as a potential way workers can have more satisfying working lives until their retirement ages. This chapter presents a critical review of the literature on workplace flexibility across the lifespan. It discusses how flexibility has been conceptualized across different disciplines, and postulates a definition that captures the joint roles of employer and employee in negotiating workplace flexibility that contributes to both employee and organization benefits. Moreover, it reviews how flexibility has been theorized and investigated in relation to older workers. The chapter ends with a future research agenda for advancing understanding of how workplace flexibility may enhance working experiences of older workers, and in particular focuses on the critical investigation of uses of flexibility in relation to older workers.
VL  - 34
SN  - 978-1-78635-263-7, 978-1-78635-264-4/0742-7301
DO  - 10.1108/S0742-730120160000034009
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-730120160000034009
AU  - Bal P. Matthijs
AU  - Jansen Paul G. W.
PY  - 2016
Y1  - 2016/01/01
TI  - Workplace Flexibility across the Lifespan
T2  - Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management
T3  - Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 43
EP  - 99
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -