1. Career Endings: Perspectives on the Retirement Transition Experience.
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Cabrera Uribe, Angie Lorena, Wang, Mo, Amabile, Teresa M., Bailyn, Lotte, Crary, Laura M., Hall, Douglas T., Kram, Kathy E., Guillén, Laura, Liu, Yuqi, Wittman, Sarah, Froidevaux, Ariane, Cockburn, Bethany, and Arthur, Michael B.
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The irreversible global trend of population aging and its critical implications for labor supply have led to a significant increase of scholarly interest in the areas of aging, transition, and retirement (Froidevaux, 2024). Although research efforts have enhanced our understanding of retirement and its antecedents and outcomes (Wang & Shi, 2014), current knowledge about aging and retirement is far from complete (Wang & Huang, 2023). This symposium consists of four papers, each addressing important research questions at one or more of the retirement phases according to the temporal process model of retirement (Shultz & Wang 2011; Froidevaux, 2024): retirement planning and decision making, bridge employment, retirement transition, and retirement adjustment. To first provide an overview on the entire retirement process, we start with Paper 1 on how the self and life structure interact during the four phases of the retirement process, followed by three papers that look into a specific phase. Digging into the retirement planning and decision-making phase, Paper 2 explores the challenges aging leaders are facing before retirement so that they anticipate (retaining) losing relevance in the organization, followed by Paper 3 that discusses how spirituality fosters sustainable careers so that the decision to retire fully may no longer be necessary for psychological reasons only. Finally, addressing the retirement adjustment phase, Paper 4 examines how emeriti professors enact their lives after retirement and what factors contribute to their life satisfaction. The Interplay between Self and Life Structure in the Retirement Transition Author: Teresa M. Amabile; Harvard U. Author: Lotte Bailyn; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Author: Laura M. Crary; Professor emerita Author: Douglas T. Hall; Boston U. Author: Kathy E. Kram; Boston U. Questrom School of Business What older leaders talk about when they are (not) primed with workplace age stereotypes Author: Laura Guillén; U. Ramon Llull, ESADE Business School Author: Yuqi Liu; U. Ramon Llull, ESADE Business School Author: Sarah Wittman; George Mason U. From "Retirement as a Compensatory Mechanism" to "Enjoying Retirement Psychological Benefits" Author: Ariane Froidevaux; U. of Texas At Arlington Emeriti Paths: Navigating Retirement from a Business School Author: Ariane Froidevaux; U. of Texas At Arlington Author: Sarah Wittman; George Mason U. Author: Bethany Cockburn; Northern Illinois U. Author: Douglas T. Hall; Boston U. Author: Michael B. Arthur; Suffolk U. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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