Coordinating GIS-based Asset Management Information Maintainment: from the office to the field; and including those who need to know

摘要

By 2020, 25 million Baby Boomers, who make up more than 40 percent of the U.S. labor force, will be exiting the workforce in large numbers and leaving many jobs to be filled. With their departure, the work characteristics that define the Baby Boomer generation - results-driven, ambitious, idealistic, competitive, optimistic, and people-oriented - may be lost unless companies creatively develop strategies to simultaneously retain older workers and transition their knowledge to younger workers (Morton, Foster, & Sedlar, 2005). These workers will also take decades of accumulated organizational knowledge with them, and this "brain drain" could result in the loss of key information about customers or practices that could be devastating to organizations (Pitt-Catsouphes & Matz-Costa, 2009).