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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]

Demographic change is altering the age-composition of the workforce, resulting in an increasing number of older workers and of age diverse teams.This panel symposium aims to address the challenges posed by demographic changes and their impact on the employability and work ability, especially on the ageing workforce. We will bring together experts (renowned scientists and practitioners) to discuss the implications of demographic shifts on workforce dynamics and to propose evidence-based strategies for maintaining a productive workforce. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Over the last 20 years, research on identity management, the strategic choices employees make to manage others' impressions of their association with a stigmatized identity(ies), has contributed to a growing understanding of the crucial role of employment experiences for people with marginalized identities (e.g., employees with disabilities, sexual minorities). The identity management literature is at a critical juncture, however, as employees with marginalized identities are increasingly bringing new and more complex aspects of themselves to work (e.g., intersectional identities) that are not well understood in current research. As such, to aid scholars in 'Innovating for the Future' during the 84th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, we aim to spark dialogue about how scholars can innovate theorizing around identity management processes in a way that better illuminates the lived experiences of marginalized employees. To achieve this, we included research in this symposium that employed grounded theory methodologies to deepen the novel theoretical contributions of the work offered. As such, the presentations, along with the unique theory-focused discussion that will take place after, are poised to help scholars innovate the future of the identity management literature using the developments presented in the symposium that are centered on illuminating the lived experiences of marginalized employees. Working through Impending Doom: The Identity Renegotiation of Employees with a Chronic Illness Author: Emily David; NUS Business School Author: Sabrina DeeAnn Volpone; U. of Colorado, Boulder Author: Wendy J. Casper; U. of Texas At Arlington Author: Ariane Froidevaux; U. of Texas At Arlington Exploring Women's Identity Management in Engineering Firms Characterized by Masculine Defaults Author: Mallory Decker; PhD candidate at CU Boulder Am I My Mental Illness? Identity Management and the Disclosure of Mental Health Conditions Author: Ryan Ragaglia; U. of Colorado, Boulder Continual Disclosure of Intersectional Identities at Work: The 'Closet within a Closet' Phenomenon Author: Sabrina DeeAnn Volpone; U. of Colorado, Boulder Author: Ryan Ragaglia; U. of Colorado, Boulder Author: Nicholas Anthony Smith; ohsu-psu school of public health Author: Larry R. Martinez; UT Arlington [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The age demographics in the modern workforce are shifting dramatically, with modern workplaces looking older and more age-diverse than ever before. Although existing work has made significant contributions to our understanding of age in the workplace, answers to fundamental questions such as how worker age affects performance remain unanswered. Age scholars have argued that in order to resolve existing inconsistencies and advance understanding of this timely topic, the field ought to take a more nuanced and multidimensional view of age in organizations. The current symposium aims to respond to this call by exploring (1) how age and gender interact to shape stereotype content, (2) how generational identity as a millennial and racial identity jointly predict turnover intentions, (3) how older workers' temporal social comparisons with younger versus older colleagues shape engagement and withdrawal from work, (4) how subjective age (i.e. how old one perceives oneself to be) affects organizational outcomes, and (5) attitudes toward all (not just older) age groups, and people's assumptions about society's attitudes towards these groups. By looking at age through many different lenses, including intersectionality, subjective age, social comparisons processes, and ageism against the young, this symposium helps inject much-needed nuance and multidimensionality into the older worker literature, toward stronger theoretical perspectives and definitive conclusions. Stereotypes of Women and Men in Different Age Groups Author: Angela Shakeri; NYU Stern School of Business Author: Michael S. North; New York U. A Social Identity Perspective on Millennials' Turnover Intentions Author: Shona G. Smith; U. of Texas At Arlington Author: Ariane Froidevaux; U. of Texas At Arlington Author: Myrtle P. Bell; U. of Texas At Arlington A Temporal Social Comparison Perspective on Older Workers' Engagement and Withdrawal at Work Author: Susan Reh; U. of Exeter Business School Author: Daniela Andrei; Curtin Business School Author: Lucinda Iles; Centre for Transformative Work Design / Curtin U. Subjective Age in the Context of an Aging Workforce Author: Noemi Nagy; U. of South Florida Author: Michael S. North; New York U. "How Biased Do You Think We Are!?" Comparing Actual versus Estimated Sentiments toward Age Groups Author: Stßphane Francioli; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania Author: Michael S. North; New York U. Author: Angela Shakeri; NYU Stern School of Business [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Boundaries around the work and nonwork domains help individuals to adopt domain appropriate roles and create a balance between the two domains. But the extreme conditions imposed by the pandemic (e.g., both spouses working from home; prolonged use of work from home) have led to employees adapting to work from home in ways that may have lasting effects on how they and their employers view the work-nonwork boundaries post-pandemic. This creates a need for reexamining conventional approaches and theories for understanding boundary management in remote work. * Work-Life Flexibility Policies, Implementation Boundary Control and Performance: A review * Presenter: Ellen Ernst Kossek; Purdue U. * Presenter: Matthew B. Perrigino; Iona College * Presenter: Brenda A. Lautsch; Simon Fraser U. * Self-Regulating among Boundary Management Styles: A Typology of Cyclers * Presenter: Shelia Hyde; Texas Woman's U. * Presenter: Ariane Froidevaux; U. of Texas At Arlington * Presenter: Wendy J. Casper; U. of Texas At Arlington * Integrating Push-Pull Dynamics for Boundary Control in the Context of Mandatory Work from Home * Presenter: Michal Biron; U. of Haifa * Presenter: Keren Turgeman Lupo; Ramat Gan Academic College * Presenter: Oz Levy; U. of Haifa * Spillover Effects of Cross-Domain Work and Family Interruptions during Remote Work * Presenter: Kristie Lynne McAlpine; Rutgers U. * Presenter: Matthew Piszczek; Wayne State U. * Presenter: Sumita Raghuram; San Jose State U. * The Double-Edged Sword of Working from Home for Women's Career Equality * Presenter: Isabel Villamor; George Washington U. * Presenter: N. Sharon Hill; George Washington U. * Presenter: Ellen Ernst Kossek; Purdue U. * Presenter: Kira Foley; George Washington U. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This symposium intends to present five studies investigating drivers and directions of employee mobility at the macro-level. The goal of this symposium is to connect macro-level patterns and micro-level mechanisms of employee mobility and foster a research conversation across disciplinary fields, including careers, human resource management, and organizational behavior. In addition, by bringing together diverse projects using large-scale longitudinal data, this symposium will allow researchers to discuss opportunities, challenges, and methodological concerns that arise when working with such data. Over the past decades, careers have transformed from those developing inside organizations and governed by organizational rules and norms to those unfolding within labor markets and characterized by the variety of job transitions and flexibility of work arrangements (Arthur & Rousseau, 1996; Osterman & Burton, 2005). These changes raised a number of questions and stimulated the development of several research streams. They led to the emergence of new conceptualizations of career (Guan et al., 2019; Sullivan & Baruch, 2009), including recent models of sustainable career (De Vos, Van Der Heijden, Akkermans, 2020). They made scholars to reevaluate the employee-employer relationship (Bonet, Cappelli, Hamori, 2013; Cappelli & Keller, 2013) and reinforced the problems of talent management and retention (Bidwell, 2017; Cappelli & Keller, 2014). Given the importance of fit between individual characteristics and broader organizational context (Ployhart et al., 2014; Weller et al., 2019), growing diversity of individual work experience also adds new challenges to the effective matching of workers to jobs. What binds employees and employers in the modern labor markets? What drives employee mobility? Why do people stay or leave, where do they go, and what if they come back? The papers comprising this symposium aim at answering these questions by looking at the longitudinal employment data from five different countries: France, Germany, South Korea, Spain, and Sweden. Testing the theory with such large-scale data facilitates the identification of the most general patterns of labor mobility that might stay unnoticed while analyzing examples from a single organization or survey data from a specific population. Combining studies conducted in a diverse set of countries adds richness to the topics discussed. Collectively, these papers demonstrate what we can learn about individual behavior from the macro-patterns of employee mobility. * Corporate career development opportunities and employee retention * Presenter: Kira Choi; EMLYON Business School * Crisis-related Wage Cuts and Employee Turnover: Who Leaves? Why? Where Do They Go? * Presenter: Halil Sabanci; Frankfurt School of Finance & Management * Presenter: Marta M Elvira; IESE Business School * How Boomerang Mobility versus Mobility to a New Employer Relates to Career Sustainability * Presenter: Katja Dlouhy; U. of Mannheim * Presenter: Ariane Froidevaux; U. of Texas At Arlington * Question of Fit: Managerial Experience and Organizational Design * Presenter: Roxana Barbulescu; HEC Paris * Presenter: Federica De Stefano; HEC Paris * Presenter: Olga Ivanova; USI Lugano * Multiple Job Affiliations and Entrepreneurship * Presenter: Chanchal Balachandran; U. of Liverpool Management School * Presenter: Filippo Carlo Wezel; USI Lugano [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Organizational scholars are coming to identify retirement as an important component of careers, with important implications for phenomena such as employee well-being and organizational competitiveness. However, important questions related to the psychological and social processes that predict individuals' retirement-related decisions, and well-being in retirement remain unexplored. This symposium advances our understanding of retirement by addressing some of these questions. We present four papers that draw on a variety of theoretical perspectives, levels of analysis, and research designs to offer novel insights into different aspects of retirement. Following the presentations, Mo Wang, a leading voice in the retirement literature will lead the audience in an interactive discussion. * Crafting a fulfilling second act: how personal projects facilitate well-being in retirement * Presenter: Min Yu; Arizona State U. * Presenter: Samir Nurmohamed; The Wharton School, U. of Pennsylvania * Presenter: Edward McClain Wellman; Arizona State U. * Retaining Retirement-Eligible Older Workers through Human Capital Development: The Effects of... * Presenter: Yixuan Li; U. of Florida * Presenter: Konrad Turek; Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) * Presenter: Kène Henkens; Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) * Presenter: Mo Wang; U. of Florida * The Role of Meaning in Life, Worker and Retiree Social Identities as Overlooked Key Challenges in... * Presenter: Shona G. Smith; U. of Texas At Arlington * Presenter: Ariane Froidevaux; U. of Texas At Arlington * Presenter: Andreas Hirschi; U. of Bern, Work and Organisational Psychology * The Role of Affect and Social Norms in Preferences for Guaranteed Income Streams in Retirement * Presenter: Helen Colby; Indiana U. * Presenter: Suzanne Shu; Cornell U. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]