How age-conscious are human resource policies? Using a survey of Dutch employers, we examine how employers deal with the prospect of an ageing work force. We supplement our analysis with an additional survey of Dutch employees to compare human resource policies to practices. Results show that a small minority of employers are taking measures to enhance productivity (training programmes) or brin...

Till to date since the 1980s, whether flexibility is a positive thing for both employers and employees is debated. Even issues responsible to the ambiguity are also debated. This paper attempts to identify some factors or conditions that may make flexibility a positive thing for both employers and employees. This paper reveals that sometimes employers’ flexibility questions employees’ flexibili...