Intergenerational communities of practice: shedding new light on older workers?

The purpose of this paper is to lay the groundwork for a large-scale prescriptive
research project on organizing intergenerational communities of practice as a way to
help organizations deal with some of the problems an ageing worker population brings
with it. After a definition of the problem, a review of four seminal works on
communities of practice was done to see if organizing intergenerational communities of
practice might in fact be a viable solution to the problems of an ageing organizational
population. Results are encouraging and lead to the conclusion that management might
start to consider organizing these communities as a way to shed new light on older
workers.