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The Challenges Of The World War II

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INTRODUCTION

Background
Those who were born between 1946 and 1964 are called the Baby Boomers generation (Dohm 17). This generation, now on the verge of retirement with exit plans from the working economy, is poised to leave a large knowledge and experience gap.

The World War II was a defining chapter in the world’s history (Ball and Gotsill 1). Furthermore, the record numbers of births after the war and the rapid developments in technology and medical advances have led to a prolonged life expectancy. Unfortunately, this has also led to a severe skew in the labour markets all over the world where the baby boomers led to a disproportionate distribution of workers in the workforce.

Most of the current workers, who have both high …show more content…

However, with the great exodus of the baby boomers exiting the labour market, human resources departments – especially in post- secondary education sector, are faced with the challenge of planning and developing the workforce, planning for corporate successions, and creating a social safety net for the entire sector.

DISCUSSION: CHALLENGES, SUCCESSION PLANNING, AND RETENTION

Why is Baby Boomer Exodus a Challenge?
Dohm (17) suggested that the health and education sector will be most severely affected when the oldest of baby boomers start retiring and exiting from the labour market. She further suggested that the only way to prevent the enormous suffering of these sectors was to retain the soon-to-be retired personnel until adequately skilled replacements could be found. In addition, Ball and Gotsill (8) suggest that in industries like post- secondary education sector, where the learning curves are steep, proper succession and retention strategies are a must to ensure continuity in quality of service. According to Ball and Gotsill’s survey, almost 40% of the workforce in education and health sectors comprise of the baby boomers (8); therefore, these two sectors are the most likely to suffer when the baby boomers begin to retire.

While significant output reduction is not expected in low skill occupations, job openings at the high end of the spectrum are going to be

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