Workforce Aging in the New Economy WANE research examines relationships among workforce aging, emplo

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What is WANE?

• Workforce Aging in the New Economy (WANE)
  research examines relationships among workforce
  aging, employment growth in information
  technology (IT) labour markets, and the
  transformation of employment relations in the new
  economy
• The project is a multi-disciplinary,
  cross-national comparison of IT employment and
  workforce aging
• Data were collected in 6 countries Australia,
  Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, the United
  Kingdom and the United States

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WANE by numbers

• 2 years in the field
• 3 phase research design
• 6 countries
• 47 IT firms
• 65 key informants
• 399 in-depth interviews
• 452 web surveys
• 651 unique respondents

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Acknowledgements

• We gratefully acknowledge the Social Sciences and
  Humanities Research Council of Canada, the
  Faculty of Social Science, the University of
  Western Ontario and Research Western for their
  support of this project.
• Thank you to the information technology firms,
  owners, managers, employees and key informants
  who participated in the study.
• Thank you also to the WANE research teams in
  Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom/European
  Union and the United States.

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Future Work Toolkit

• A people management toolkit for small and medium
  sized IT firms
• Designed for owner/operators of small to medium
  sized IT firms, the Future Work toolkit draws on
  research from the WANE project and the broader
  literature
• Future Work provides insight to the people
  management challenges that small-medium IT firms
  face and approaches they might consider to
  improve their ability to attract and retain staff
  and to optimize productivity
• Available online at www.wane.ca

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Future Work Toolkit

• The toolkit is divided into six key areas of
  Human Resource Management
• Recruitment
• Managing performance and skills development
• Career management across life course transitions
• Work/life balance and flexibility
• Remuneration and rewards
• Health and well-being

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Future Work Toolkit

• Within each key area are the following
• a description of the area and how it relates to
  IT businesses
• a business case to highlight the significance of
  the area
• examples of good practice found in WANE research
  firms
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• The final section of the toolkit offers questions
  to consider and ideas for action.

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Coming soon

• WANE is publishing 2 books in 2009...
• Working in Information Technology Firms
  Intersections of Gender and Aging
• Ageing and Working in the New Economy Careers
  and Changing Structures in Small and Medium Size
  Information Technology firms