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Age and Time Horizons Are Associated With Preferences for Helping Colleagues. Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Yochai Z Shavit,Kevin Chi,Laura L Carstensen
The present study examined the causal role of time horizons in age differences in worker motivation. Based on socioemotional selectivity theory (SST), we hypothesized that under unspecified time horizons, older workers prefer to engage in emotionally meaningful work activities more so than younger workers. We further hypothesized that when time horizons at work are expanded or limited, age differences
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Broadening the View of Workplace Ageism. Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Gretchen A Petery,James W Grosch
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Age Stereotypes Do Matter: Looking Through the Lens of the Attraction–Selection–Attrition Model Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 David M Cadiz,Grant M Brady,Lale M Yaldiz,Sara Zaniboni,Donald M Truxillo
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Age, Experience, and Business Performance: A Meta-Analysis of Work Unit-Level Effects Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Richard A Guzzo,Haig R Nalbantian,Nicholas L Anderson
Abstract Adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, this article reports new evidence on the impact of age and experience on work unit performance. Two types of experience that increase with age are “general” and “firm-specific.” The focus here is on the influence of general human capital (which increases with time spent in the workforce) and firm-specific human capital (which increases with tenure
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The Impacts of Digital Technologies on Successful Aging in Non-Work and Work Domains: An Organizing Taxonomy Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Nan Sheng,Yanran Fang,Yiduo Shao,Valeria Alterman,Mo Wang
Abstract Digital technology, broadly defined as all the electronic tools, automatic systems, technological devices, and resources that generate, process, or store information in the form of binary code (Shah, Nogueras, Van Woerden, & Kiparoglou, 2019), has brought great changes to almost all aspects of human life. In particular, the development and the application of various digital technologies have
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Precise Conclusions Regarding the Influence of Age Stereotypes Require Precise Operationalizations Thereof Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Cort W Rudolph,Jack C Friedrich,Hannes Zacher
Abstract Murphy and DeNisi (2021) offer that there is scant evidence that age-based stereotypes affect personnel judgments and decisions. However, this conclusion is drawn from evidence that assumes that biased judgments follow from stereotypes, rather than from evidence suggesting that stereotypes precede biased judgments. In this reply to Murphy and DeNisi (2021), we point out the flaws in this argument
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An Examination of the Predictive Validity of Subjective Age and Core Self-evaluations on Performance-Related Outcomes Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Rick A Laguerre,Janet L Barnes-Farrell,James M Hughes
Abstract The widely used single-item operationalization of subjective age “how old do you feel?” is unstable; yet, it is frequently used in longitudinal research. Based upon calls to investigate the psychometric properties of the multi-item (“Ages of Me”) operationalization of subjective age, we conducted a series of tests that evaluated the stability and incremental predictive validity of this construct
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You’re Too Old for That! Ageism and Prescriptive Stereotypes in the Workplace Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Elizabeth A Hanrahan,Courtney L Thomas,Lisa M Finkelstein
Abstract Using a vignette-based design, the current study addresses the question of what happens when a worker violates prescriptive age identity stereotypes (i.e., does not act in ways that align with cultural expectations for people in their age group). The study extends prior research by including a mixed adhering-violating condition, investigating the effects of prescriptive stereotype violation
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The Confluence of Culture and Ageism at Work Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2022-03-20 Justin Marcus
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The (Mis)Use of SD as Age Diversity Measure: Introducing the Mean SD Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Kim De Meulenaere,Torsten Biemann,Christophe Boone
Abstract The aging population trend and the associated growing share of older employees lead to high levels of workplace age diversity, which has inspired many researchers to examine the implications. In this article, we show that the prevalent use of the standard deviation (SD) as age diversity measurement may hinder the field in unraveling the effects of age diversity. While SD is known as an operationalization
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Retired High-Flyers: Exploring the Impact of Accomplishment on Well-being in Retired Female CEOs Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Kristiane Kronsbein,Meggy Belovski,Jolanta Burke
Abstract While literature about the relationship between well-being and accomplishment exists, previous studies were mainly quantitative and neglected the subjective experience of female retirees, which the current study aimed to address. Three female retired charity CEOs based in the United Kingdom were interviewed using in-depth, semi-structured interviews. The interpretative phenomenological analysis
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Active Time Use and Well-Being in Older Adulthood: Results From a Day Reconstruction Method Study Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2022-02-25 Möwisch D, Brose A, Schmiedek F, et al.
AbstractActive time use is considered to be one of the keys to successful aging. Previous studies have investigated the influence of various activities on subjective well-being (SWB) and health in later life. As different activities have often been investigated in isolation, showing only minor influences of each activity on well-being, a more global measure of active time use might show a stronger
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Multifaceted, Nuanced Personnel Decisions Necessitate Multifaceted, Nuanced Age Research Approaches Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2022-02-18 Gioaba I, North M, Wang M.
Age stereotypes are beliefs and expectations about individuals based on their age group membership (Posthuma & Campion, 2009). In their focal commentary, Murphy and DeNisi (2021) make a strong case encouraging greater research on the nature and impact of age stereotypes in the workplace. We concur with this general view: a stronger research emphasis on age stereotypes and age bias will advance understanding
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Searching for the Effect of Age-Based Stereotypes on Personnel Decisions? Try Looking Through an Intersectional Lens Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2022-02-09 Thrasher G.
AbstractThe long-standing notion that personnel decisions are influenced by age-based stereotypes implies that performance-based stigmas associated with age create a social inequality for older workers. However, evidence for the “real world” effects of age-based stereotypes on personnel decisions is lacking—which to some suggests the absence of these otherwise intuitive age-based inequalities. In this
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The Essential Role of Intersectionality in the Science of Work and Aging Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Marcus J, Wang M.
Pointing to weak and inconsistent associations between age stereotyping and personnel outcomes, Murphy and DeNisi (2021) argue that the evidenced effects of age stereotypes on such outcomes are a result of biases introduced through an over-reliance on experimental designs. These authors argue that effects found in the field often are null or counterintuitive, favoring older over younger workers. Missing
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Later Life Workplace Index: Validation of an English Version Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-12-30 Finsel J, Wöhrmann A, Wang M, et al.
AbstractResearch on measures for organizational practices targeted toward older employees has grown during the past decade. However, existing measures tend to capture the construct with unidimensional scales, use single-item operationalizations, or focus on specific domains. Thus, the Later Life Workplace Index (LLWI) was developed to serve as a multidimensional framework for measuring organizational
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An Analysis of the Multidimensional Structure of Job Crafting for Older Workers With a Managerial Role Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-12-29 Michela Vignoli,Enrico Perinelli,Evangelia Demerouti,Donald M Truxillo
Abstract Job crafting has often been conceptualized as a higher-order construct composed of 3 dimensions: seeking resources, seeking challenges, and reducing demands. However, recent advances in job crafting studies have questioned the composition of its multidimensional structure. Furthermore, job crafting has been widely studied in age-diverse samples of workers, but not properly studied among older
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Retirement Adjustment in Germany From 1996 to 2014 Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Georg Henning,Boo Johansson,Magnus Lindwall,Oliver Huxhold
Abstract The context of retirement has changed over the last decades, but there is little knowledge on whether the quality of retirement adjustment has changed as well. Changes in retirement regulations and historical differences in resources may affect the quality of adjustment and increase inequalities between different socioeconomic groups. In the present study, we investigated historical differences
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Age-Diverse Workplace Friendship: A Systematic Literature Review and Recommendations for Future Research Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Laura Dietz,Ulrike Fasbender
Abstract Friendship may help to bridge differences between people, such as between age-diverse employees. Oftentimes, age diversity in employee interactions cultivates interpersonal tensions. Age-diverse workplace friendship—a relationship between coworkers of different ages, who like each other and who are engaged in a balanced social exchange—may help to overcome these interpersonal tensions because
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Age-Related Human Resource Management Policies and Practices: Antecedents, Outcomes, and Conceptualizations Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Stephan A Boehm, Heike Schröder, Matthijs Bal
Due to the demographic change in age, societies, firms, and individuals struggle with the need to postpone retirement while keeping up motivation, performance, and health throughout employees’ working life. Organizations, and specifically the Human Resource Management (HRM) practices they design and implement, take a central role in this process. Being influenced by macro-level trends such as new legislation
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Trajectories of Worktime Control From Midlife to Retirement and Working Beyond Retirement Age Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-10-19 Marianna Virtanen, Saana Myllyntausta, Maarit Kauppi, Mika Kivimäki, Jaana Pentti, Jenni Ervasti, K C Prakash, Jussi Vahtera, Sari Stenholm
The extent to which long-term individual-oriented flexibility in working hours is associated with working beyond retirement age is not known. The aims of the present study were to identify trajectories of worktime control (WTC) and to examine whether the membership of WTC trajectories was associated with working beyond individual’s pensionable age. A total of 1,953 older employees participated in the
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Organizational Response to Workforce Aging: Tensions in Human Capital Perspectives Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-10-19 Peter Berg,Matthew M Piszczek
Abstract The proportion of older workers in the labor force is increasing. While much research over recent decades has suggested that this will create significant challenges for organizations, current evidence suggests that age-related human resource management practices are rare. Using a grounded theory approach, we examine why organizations are not adopting formal practices and what they are doing
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Rater Attributions of Malfunctions in Videoconference Interviews Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-09-29 Jerod C White, Tara S Behrend
Virtual interviews have become ubiquitous, yet research on the psychological effects of their technological characteristics remains sparse. Many practitioners caution that malfunctions that commonly occur during interviews may negatively influence interviewers’ perceptions of an applicant. This concern is heightened for some groups of applicants, particularly those of certain age groups. Age stereotypes
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Changes in Job Quality as People Work Beyond Pensionable Age in Sweden Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-09-08 Lawrence B Sacco, Kevin E Cahill, Hugo Westerlund, Loretta G Platts
Large numbers of people remain in paid work after pensionable age, often in bridge jobs or with reduced working hours. Remarkably, knowledge about the quality of these jobs relative to those taken prior to pension eligibility is very limited. In this paper, we examined changes in job quality among workers in their sixties in the context of contemporaneous changes in work intensity and employment characteristics
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California’s Paid Family Leave Law and the Employment of 45- to 64-Year-Old Adults Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-08-28 Ann P Bartel, Soohyun Kim, Christopher J Ruhm, Jane Waldfogel
Paid family leave allows workers to take time off from work to care for a family member with a serious health condition, with reduced financial risk and increased job continuity. In 2004, California was the first state in the nation to implement a paid family leave program allowing workers to take up to 8 weeks off work with partial pay to care for their own or a family member’s serious health condition
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When and Why Do Employers (Re)Hire Employees Beyond Normal Retirement Age? Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-08-26 Orlaith C Tunney, Jaap Oude Mulders
Older workers are increasingly being encouraged to work beyond normal retirement age (NRA). Given that employers generally control opportunities for employees to work beyond NRA, better understanding their motivations, attitudes, and experiences in (re)hiring employees to work beyond NRA is vital. To date, however, research investigating employment beyond NRA has primarily focused on the perspective
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An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Social Identity Transition in Academic Retirement Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-08-24 Anca M Miron, Nyla R Branscombe, Thomas C Ball, Susan H McFadden, Catherine Haslam
One of the most serious challenges inherent in retirement transition is coping with social identity changes. We investigated social identity processes and the role of social engagement during retirement transition by examining the life narratives of recently retired university faculty (14 males and 5 females) from 12 different academic areas. The interviews were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological
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Do Age Stereotypes Predict Personnel Decisions? The State of the Evidence Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-08-23 Kevin R Murphy, Angelo S DeNisi
It is widely believed that older workers are likely to fare badly in recruitment and hiring, promotion, pay, training opportunities, layoffs, and termination (Garstka et al., 2005; Kita, 2019), and that negative stereotypes of older workers contribute significantly to these outcomes (Finkelstein et al., 2012; Ng & Feldman, 2012; Posthuma & Campion, 2009; Posthuma et al., 2012; Toomey & Rudolph, 2015;
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Knowledge Transfer Between Younger and Older Employees: A Temporal Social Comparison Model Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-07-09 Ulrike Fasbender, Fabiola H Gerpott
Knowledge transfer between younger and older employees can help to prevent organizational knowledge loss and contribute to business success. However, despite its potential benefits, knowledge transfer does not occur automatically. To better understand the challenges associated with age-diverse knowledge transfer, we develop a conceptual model outlining 10 propositions. Specifically, we adopt a temporal
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Control at Work: An Integrative, Lifespan-Informed Review Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-07-08 Rachel S Rauvola, Cort W Rudolph
Control is one of the most ubiquitous and fundamental concepts to the study of psychology, including to theory, research, and practice related to aging and work. Indeed, control constructs exist in many different forms (e.g., self-efficacy, job autonomy, locus of control), and they have been extensively linked to performance and well-being with age. This article provides a review of age- and work-relevant
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Forge Healthy Pathways to Retirement With Employer Practices: A Multilevel Perspective Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-07-03 Kène Henkens
Countries in the Western world are experiencing increasing challenges associated with an aging population. This aging process is unprecedented, and the era of young population structures will not return. This structural demographic shift has not only made the sustainability of pensions and social security key issues for governments but also influences the ways in which people organize their working
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Married Mothers’ Bargaining Power and Their Accrual of Pension Entitlements: Evidence From East and West Germany Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Weiland A, Wang M.
AbstractThis study investigates how married mothers’ relative bargaining power before the birth of their first child affects their subsequent accumulation of pension entitlements in East versus West Germany. I use a novel data linkage between the German sample of the “Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe” and administrative records from the German pension insurance (SHARE-RV) to analyze
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Working Conditions and Mortality Risks Among Those Over the Age of 65: Findings From Germany Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Brussig M, Drescher S, Henkens K.
ABSTRACTDespite the common worldwide trend of increasing life expectancy, socioeconomic differences and inequalities in mortality risks remain. This study focuses on the differences in mortality risks after the age of 65 due to working conditions during one’s working life. The study is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), a representative longitudinal survey for Germany. Using
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Physical Work Exposures of Older Workers: Does Measurement Make a Difference? Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Andrasfay T, Pebley A, Goldman N, et al.
AbstractPhysically demanding work at later ages, which is especially prevalent among disadvantaged groups, is associated with long-term health outcomes and may contribute to health inequality over the life course. Past studies of these issues have relied on occupational characteristics from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), but few have assessed how O*NET compares to survey reports when
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Beyond Hours Worked and Dollars Earned: Multidimensional EQ, Retirement Trajectories and Health in Later Life Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-06-23 Sarah B Andrea, Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot, Vanessa M Oddo, Trevor Peckham, Daniel Jacoby, Anjum Hajat
The working lives of Americans have become less stable over the past several decades and older adults may be particularly vulnerable to these changes in employment quality (EQ). We aimed to develop a multidimensional indicator of EQ among older adults and identify EQ and retirement trajectories in the United States. Using longitudinal data on employment stability, material rewards, workers’ rights
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Impact of Flexible Work Arrangements on Key Challenges to Work Engagement Among Older Workers Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-06-22 Joanne Allen, Fiona M Alpass, Ágnes Szabó, Christine V Stephens
As workforces age, organizations are challenged to provide human resource management policies and practices that are responsive to the needs of older workers. Flexible work arrangements (FWAs)—practices that allow workers to influence when, where, and how work is completed—have been promoted as enabling older workers to maintain work engagement by decreasing demands of the work role, providing the
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Early Pension Claiming and Expected Longevity: A Register-Based Study on the Take-up of the Partial Old-Age Pension in Finland Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-06-03 Satu Nivalainen
As of February 2017, Finns have been able to claim a partial old-age pension early at age 61 independent of their working hours or earnings. Focusing on the take-up of the partial old-age pension in Finland, this article investigates whether early pension claiming is associated with expected longevity. We assume parental longevity to signal expected longevity. We use total register data on those eligible
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Assessing the Capacity to Work Among Older Workers: A Survival Analysis of Retirement Behavior Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-05-17 Michaël Boissonneault, Joop de Beer
Whether increases to statutory retirement ages will have the anticipated effect in countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) depends on whether workers have the health capacity to postpone retirement. Methods that were proposed to measure the capacity to work at older age are ill-designed to assess inter-cohort trends, which is important for determining whether
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From Isolation to Interaction: A Social Network Perspective on Older Teachers’ Position in School Organizations and Age-Related HR Practices Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 Quentin Brouhier, Virginie März, Sara Van Waes, Isabel Raemdonck
Since workforce is greying, increasing pressure has been put on many sectors, including the public sector, to raise legal retirement age. Nevertheless, older workers, and specifically teachers, usually retire much earlier. In the organizational and educational literature, most studies regarding later career have been applying a deficit perspective: reporting on senior teachers’ challenges and difficulties
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Does a Growth Mindset Enable Successful Aging? Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-02-19 Heslin P, Burnette J, Ryu N, et al.
AbstractSuccessful aging broadly refers to the development and maintenance of favorable life outcomes with increasing age. We propose that the likelihood of people aging successfully is enhanced by routinely engaging in habitually repeated, enjoyable actions (henceforth, “rituals”) that cultivate their personal resources in the physical, emotional, mental, social, and spiritual domains. We suggest
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An Application of the Resource-Based Dynamic Process Model in the Context of Retirement Planning Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-04-23 Jack Noone,Joanne Earl,Christine Stephens,Julia Rafalski,Joanne Allen,Fiona Alpass,Gabriela Topa
Abstract Retirement planning is a widely promoted activity to enhance wellbeing for aging populations. However, there is limited follow-up data to understand the antecedents of multi-dimensional retirement planning activities, the resources such activities produce or the explanatory mechanisms. This research draws on recent theorizing, which suggests that retirement planning may play a mediating role
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Suggestions for Improvement in Psychometric Corrections in Meta-analysis and Implications for Research on Worker Age and Aging Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-04-17 In-Sue Oh, Frank L Schmidt
As a vital tool for advancing cumulative science and guiding evidence-based practice, meta-analysis has advanced many research fields of the behavioral and social sciences, including worker age and aging. Nonetheless, there is still room for improvement, particularly in terms of meta-analytic methods and procedures. In this article, we overview some influential meta-analyses on worker age and aging
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Resource Passageways and Caravans: A Multi-level, Multi-disciplinary Review of the Antecedents of Resources over the Lifespan Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-04-07 Lee Sarandopoulos,Prashant Bordia
Abstract Resources are vital for older worker effectiveness and well-being, yet limited attention has been paid to the antecedents of resources. Drawing together the rich cross-disciplinary literature on resources, and through the lens of cumulative disadvantage and resource passageways, we review the individual, organizational, and institutional factors that influence the resources available to people
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Alcohol Consumption Over the Retirement Transition in Sweden: Different Trajectories Based on Education Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Neda Agahi, Susanne Kelfve, Linda B Hassing, Magnus Lindwall
Retirement is a major life transition that involves changes to everyday routines, roles, and habits. Previous studies suggest that retirement may influence drinking habits. Many natural inhibitors of alcohol consumption disappear with the removal of work constraints. The potential impact depends on both individual and contextual factors. Women in the cohorts undergoing retirement now have been more
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Explaining Age Differences in the Motivating Potential of Intergenerational Contact at Work Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-04-02 Anne Burmeister, Andreas Hirschi, Hannes Zacher
Understanding the effects of intergenerational contact at work is important given aging and increasingly age-diverse workforces. The aim of this research was to better understand who derives motivational benefits from intergenerational contact, and the processes by which this occurs. To do so, we adopted a motivational lens grounded in need-based theories of work motivation and lifespan development
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Matching the Pieces: The Presence of Idiosyncratic Deals and Their Impact on Retirement Preferences Among Older Workers Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-04-01 Robin Jonsson, Caroline Hasselgren, Lotta Dellve, Daniel Seldén, Daniel Larsson, Mikael Stattin
Despite working life prolongation having been at the center of the policy agenda in Europe for the last two decades, organizations’ engagement in formal age-management activities intended to strengthen older workers’ motivation and work ability appears limited. Given policies to extend working lives, negotiated individualized work arrangements—often called idiosyncratic deals (I-deals)—can be an informal
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Diet Quality of Workers and Retirees: A Cross-sectional Analysis of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil) Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 da Silva V, Gorgulho B, Marchioni D, et al.
AbstractThe objective of this study was to cross-sectionally analyze the diet quality of active workers and retirees to identify possible differences by gender and subgroups of working and nonworking retirees using baseline data from the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil), a cohort study of employees of six higher education centers in Brazil. In the first phase of the study
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Adaptation or Exploration? Understanding Older Workers’ Plans for Post-Retirement Paid and Volunteer Work Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 van Solinge H, Damman M, Hershey D, et al.
AbstractNumerous investigations have sought to understand the types of individuals who engage in post-retirement work. However, little is known about why older adults are motivated to engage. The aim of the present article is to examine the extent to which two possible mechanisms—adaptation (adjusting to the loss of work role) and exploration (retirement as opportunity to engage in activities in line
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Too Old for Agility? Employee Age and Readiness for Change Toward Scrum—The Moderating Roles of Age Climate and Subjective Age Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-03-11 Ivana Drazic, Carsten C Schermuly
While demographic change is leading to an aging workforce in many parts of the world, more and more companies are implementing agile forms of collaboration. These enable better adaptation to change through constant, iterative learning but require a corresponding mindset from the employees. According to meta-analytical findings, willingness to learn is negatively correlated with employee age, whereas
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Age and Emotions in Organizations: Main, Moderating, and Context-Specific Effects Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Scheibe S, Walter F, Zhan Y, et al.
AbstractThis editorial introduces the Special Issue on “Age and Emotions in Organizations.” The Special Issue aims at leveraging theory and research on emotional aging to better understand the work-related consequences associated with employees’ age. After summarizing relevant theories of emotional aging, we develop 3 overarching conceptual models that allow for a categorization of research linking
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Older Workers With Disabilities: A Person-Centered Approach to Understanding the Effect of Comorbidity on Work Outcomes Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-03-03 Gregory R Thrasher, Karen S Markel, Lizabeth A Barclay
Research on persons with disabilities (PWD) has identified robust challenges faced by these individuals within the context of work. Although there are clear associations between disability status and employment outcomes, the literature on PWD suffers from two primary gaps: (1) there is currently little to no research on the comorbidity of disability characteristics and (2) the consideration of how
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In Search of the Older Worker: Framing Job Requirements in Recruitment Advertisements Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Martine van Selm, Linda van den Heijkant
Older workers face problems in the labor market due to dominant beliefs about their abilities: they are perceived as reliable, trustworthy, and loyal, but also as less adaptable, less motivated, and less capable compared to younger workers. The mixed beliefs about older workers resonate with the stereotype of older people in society according to the Stereotype Content Model (SCM) of being warm but
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Trade Union Responses to Ageing Workplaces: Lessons from the UK Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Chris Ball, Matt Flynn
In 2017, European-level unions and business associations agreed a framework for national and workplace level employers and union representatives to take collaborative action to design workforce responses to demographic ageing. This article discusses how unions are responding to pressures to extend working life in the UK. Drawing on industrial relations and social movement literature, it argues that
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The Moderating Effect of Age on the Association Between High-Performance Work Systems and Employee Performance in Different Work Roles Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 Nikolaos Pahos, Eleanna Galanaki, Beatrice I J M Van der Heijden, Jeroen de Jong
High performance work systems (HPWS) have been shown to associate with performance at diverse levels. In this article, we study the effects of employee age on the relationship between HPWS and employee performance. We use a role-based measurement of employee performance, which introduces five roles that an employee can hold within an organization, namely the roles of Job holder, Career seeker, Innovator
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Action Research in Age Management: The Quality of Ageing at Work Model Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2020-11-27 Emma Garavaglia, Francesco Marcaletti, Tatiana Iñiguez-Berrozpe
This article discusses the introduction of age management practices within organizations and the possible resistance to their implementation, linked to the persistence of stereotypes and barriers associated with employee age and the presence of hostile organizational cultures. The article proposes to adopt an action research approach to facilitate the implementation of these practices, presenting for
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The Use of HR Policies and Job Satisfaction of Older Workers Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Mark Visser, Jelle Lössbroek, Tanja van der Lippe
Against the backdrop of aging populations and policies to extend working lives, this study advances prior research by examining how job satisfaction of older workers is associated with not only own, but also coworkers’ usage of 3 human resource (HR) policies: phasing out (i.e., lighter workload, additional leave, and semi-retirement), demotion, and training. Exploiting unique, linked organization-department-employee
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Organizational Practices for the Aging Workforce: Development and Validation of the Later Life Workplace Index Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2020-10-08 Wilckens M, Wöhrmann A, Deller J, et al.
AbstractThe present three studies focused on the development and validation of a multifaceted measure of organizational practices for the aging workforce, the Later Life Workplace Index (LLWI). The first study developed a comprehensive item pool based on expert interview evidence from Germany and the United States. Two further studies among workers across industries in Germany (N = 609, N = 349) provided
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An Organizational Socialization Perspective on Young Adults’ Ideas About Retirement: Examining Sources of Retirement Information, Meanings of Retirement, and Source-Meaning Associations Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Gettings P, Anderson L, Wang M.
AbstractThis study drew from literature on organizational socialization, namely an early phase called vocational anticipatory socialization (VAS), to examine the sources of information from which young adults learn about retirement, the meanings they ascribe to retirement, and associations between sources of retirement information and meanings. In study 1, quantitative content analysis was used to
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The Psychological Consequences of the COVID-19 on Residents and Staff in Nursing Homes Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Shenjiang Mo, Junqi Shi
Abstract In this commentary, we overview the existing research on psychological consequences caused by COVID-19 for both residents and staff in the nursing homes. We identify loneliness and emotional anxiety as main psychological consequences for nursing home residents, whereas uncertainty, hopelessness, work overload, and role conflicts are the most salient psychological challenges for the staff in
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Pandemic Ponderings on the Limited Lens of Our Age Stereotyping Research: Considering Privilege and Racism Work Aging Retire. (IF 5.682) Pub Date : 2020-10-01 Lisa M Finkelstein
Abstract In this commentary, I observe the assumption of privilege of many of the age stereotypes that emerged to characterize both older and younger age groups at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This leads to a reflection of how much extant age stereotype research may be limited by the typical centering of a white and a middle- or upper-class perspective. I make acknowledgment of strides toward