1. Leadership development: How might an organization identify and develop ambidextrous leaders who can inspire and motivate both older and younger generations of workers? What approaches to training can help organizational members acquire these leadership skills?
2. Compensation and benefits: What are the impacts on motivation and performance of flexible approaches to total compensation? How do these approaches affect organizational culture and climate?
3. Executive compensation: How to close the trust gap that separates highly paid executives from lower paid workers?
4. Work–life issues: What do empirical data reveal about the impact of the full spectrum of flexible work policies on the ability to meet the needs of customers?
5. Retirements of baby boomers: What are the relative merits of alternative strategies for preserving institutional memory? What features of the work environment or the structure of work itself might make retirement less (or more) attractive than ongoing employment?
6. Attitudes toward aging: Can we identify alternative strategies for changing long held, deeply ingrained attitudes toward older workers? Can we develop strategies to counter age grading in employment interviews and in performance reviews?
7. Work intensification: What are the health consequences (physical and mental) associated with “anorexic” organizations?
8. Talent management: In the quest to maximize performance, some argue that talent is most important; others