Attracting retirees to apply: desired organizational characteristics of bridge employment

Rau, Barbara L.; Adams, Gary A.

doi:10.1002/job.330

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“…However, research also shows that older workers in bridge jobs have higher access to flexible work options than older workers in career jobs (ArmstrongStassen, 2008a,b). This is striking given that the attractiveness of jobs increases when flexibility is part of the job, as the vignette study among retirees showed (Rau & Adams, 2005). Moreover, Armstrong-Stassen (2008b) showed that flexibility is important for people in bridge jobs to remain employed and not to retire.…”

Section: Employee Perceptions On Workplace Flexibility For Older Workersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Workplace flexibility has been linked to the aging workforce for some time as a way older workers can be motivated, retained, and made to maintain productivity at higher ages (Rau & Adams, 2005;Siegenthaler & Brenner, 2000). This represents a shift from the research on flexible work schedules which until then primarily focused on availability and use for women and young parents (Brewer, 2000).…”

Section: Workplace Flexibility Across the Lifespanmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rau & Adams (2005) Vignette Study 120 US university retirees with a desire to work Flexible work schedule availability in a job ad…”

Section: 209 Us Employeesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Of the eleven studies we traced on employees' perspectives on workplace flexibility for older workers, ten were based on cross-sectional or longitudinal survey studies of employees, and one was based on a vignette study among older workers (Rau & Adams, 2005). Most studies measured employee perceptions of availability of flexibility options, while some others measured actual use of flexibility at work, including flexibility i-deals , and use of flexible careers .…”

Section: Employee Perceptions On Workplace Flexibility For Older Workersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The study of Rau and Adams (2005) showed that organizational attractiveness was highest for older workers when there was flexibility available, but also options for mentoring and equal employment opportunities. Moreover, Pitt-Catsouphes and Matz-Costa (2008) showed that flexibility fit was predictive of employee engagement, indicating that it was not only having access to flexibility that is important, but the extent to which it fits with personal needs.…”

Section: Employee Perceptions On Workplace Flexibility For Older Workersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Workplace Flexibility across the Lifespan

Bal¹,

Jansen²

2016

Research in Personnel and Human Resources Management

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As demographic changes impact the workplace, governments, organizations and workers are looking for ways to sustain optimal working lives at higher ages. Workplace flexibility has been introduced as a potential way workers can have more satisfying working lives until their retirement ages. This paper presents a critical review of the literature on workplace flexibility across the lifespan. It discusses how flexibility has been conceptualized across different disciplines, and postulates a definition that captures the joint roles of employer and employee in negotiating workplace flexibility that contributes to both employee and organization benefits.Moreover, it reviews how flexibility has been theorized and investigated in relation to older workers. The paper ends with a future research agenda for advancing understanding of how workplace flexibility may enhance working experiences of older workers, and in particular focuses on the critical investigation of uses of flexibility in relation to older workers.Flexibility can be regarded as one the key concepts of the contemporary workplace (Bird, 2015). Organizations try to become more flexible and adaptable to ever changing economic circumstances (Volberda, 1996; Way et al., 2015), while employees are expected to be more flexible in how they approach their jobs and careers (Hill et al., 2008a). Moreover, employees are increasingly looking for more flexibility in how they balance their work with their personal lives (Allen, Johnson, Kiburz, & Shockley, 2013;Ferguson, Carlson, & Kacmar, 2015), and in how they develop their careers (Moen & Sweet, 2004). Finally, governments across the world have increasingly responded to these trends by declaring flexibility the keyword for the future workforce and workplace (Johnson, 2011). In all these instances the denotation 'flexibility' refers to a different object and consequently has a different meaning. 3It is not surprising that the increasing popularity of the allegedly multi-interpretational term flexibility has coincided with rapid demographic changes in the workforce, including the aging of populations across the world (Kooij, 2015;Zacher, 2015). These demographic changes have caused governments, organizations, and employees to take a different position in how work and careers are both conceived and realized when life expectancy will rise to 100 years and above. However, current retirement systems are largely based on people retiring at 65 years (Wang & Shultz, 2010). One of the more immediate consequences of the aging population is that the ratio of working vs. non-working people is declining rapidly, causing more non-working people to be dependent upon a smaller number of people in jobs (Johnson, 2011). As these changes have put greater pressure on the affordability of pensions in many countries worldwide, governments have been engaging in the process of stimulating longer careers and ceasing with financially supporting early retirement. However, whereas the need for people to work beyond retirement has increased...

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Section: Employee Perceptions On Workplace Flexibility For Older Workersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Workplace Flexibility Across the Lifespanmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rau & Adams (2005) Vignette Study 120 US university retirees with a desire to work Flexible work schedule availability in a job ad…”

Section: 209 Us Employeesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Employee Perceptions On Workplace Flexibility For Older Workersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Employee Perceptions On Workplace Flexibility For Older Workersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Bal¹,

Jansen²

2016

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Employee Age Differences in Using Internet‐Based Tools at Work

Burlacu¹,

Truxillo²,

Bauer³

2017

The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of the Internet at Work

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Predicting Retirement Upon Eligibility: An Embeddedness Perspective

Bamberger

Bacharach

2013

Human Resource Management

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Concern over the impact of baby‐boomers' retirement on needed skills and proprietary knowledge has stimulated an interest in identifying workplace factors associated with retirement upon eligibility. Drawing from embeddedness theory, the authors identify work‐based antecedents potentially underlying a related, but distinct, form of withdrawal—retirement upon eligibility. The authors generate and test hypotheses regarding the impact of fit‐, sacrifice‐, and links‐related antecedents using a prospective study design and a national probability sample of some 500 older individuals who, at the time of the initial interview, were within months of becoming—for the first time—eligible to receive such benefits. The findings indicate that, beyond the effects of person‐based antecedents (e.g., age, health, assets, expected retirement income), a combination of fit‐ (i.e., job challenge), sacrifice‐ (i.e., perceived organizational support), and links‐related factors (i.e., stability of close workplace peer relations) have a substantial influence on the decision to retire upon eligibility. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Attracting retirees to apply: desired organizational characteristics of bridge employment

Cited by 94 publications

References 42 publications

Workplace Flexibility across the Lifespan

Workplace Flexibility across the Lifespan

Employee Age Differences in Using Internet‐Based Tools at Work

Predicting Retirement Upon Eligibility: An Embeddedness Perspective

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