TY - BOOK ID - 7541616 TI - Ageing and the public service : human resource challenges AU - Arnould, Emmanuelle. AU - Pilichowski, Elsa. AU - Turkisch, Edouard. AU - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. PY - 2007 SN - 9264029710 9264029702 PB - Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, DB - UniCat KW - OECD countries -- Officials and employees -- Retirement. KW - Older people -- Services for -- OECD countries. KW - Older people. KW - Population aging -- Social aspects -- OECD countries. KW - Population aging. KW - Population aging KW - Older people KW - Social Welfare & Social Work KW - Social Sciences KW - Gerontology KW - Government policy KW - Social aspects KW - Retirement KW - Services for KW - OECD countries KW - Officials and employees KW - Retirement. KW - Aged KW - Aging people KW - Elderly people KW - Old people KW - Older adults KW - Older persons KW - Senior citizens KW - Seniors (Older people) KW - Superannuation KW - Termination of employment KW - Aging of population KW - Aging population KW - Aging society KW - Demographic aging KW - Graying (Demography) KW - Greying (Demography) KW - OECD member countries KW - Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries KW - Age groups KW - Persons KW - Gerontocracy KW - Old age KW - Leisure KW - Age distribution (Demography) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7541616 AB - Government workforces are ageing even more rapidly than the rest of society. This raises specific challenges and opportunities. An ageing public service increases fiscal burdens while decreasing immediate capacities to deliver services. In the long run, however, it also offers a strategic opportunity to downsize the public sector workforce if necessary and to change employment conditions and the management of government employees where this is deemed reasonable. This book reviews the experience of 9 OECD member countries in this field. It presents some conclusions on strategies that countries could implement in order to adjust their human resource policies to the wider ageing challenge.  ER -