'Decommissioned vessels' - performance management and older workers in technologically-intensive service work

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 89, Issue , 2014, Pages 333-342

  Scholarios, Dora ^a   Taylor, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age; Age stereotyping; Electronic human resource management (e HRM); Electronic performance monitoring (EPM); Performance management

Indexed keywords

MANAGERS; SERVICE VESSELS;

AGE; AGE STEREOTYPING; ELECTRONIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENTS; ELECTRONIC PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT;

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

AGEISM; FINANCIAL SERVICES; HUMAN RESOURCE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EID: 84921344574     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.08.004     Document Type: Article

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