Job demands and resources and their associations with early retirement intentions through recovery need and work enjoyment
SA Journal of Industrial Psychology
Field | Value | |
Title | Job demands and resources and their associations with early retirement intentions through recovery need and work enjoyment | |
Creator | Schreurs, Bert De Cuyper, Nele van Emmerik, I.J. Hetty Notelaers, Guy de Witte, Hans | |
Description | Orientation: Job characteristics play a major role in shaping employees’ early retirement decisions.Research purpose: The objective of this study was to examine the mechanisms through which job characteristics associate with early retirement intention, using the Job Demands-Resources (JD-R) model as a theoretical framework.Motivation of the study: Early retirement presents a threat to existing health and pension systems, and to organisational functioning. Therefore, it is important to examine how workrelated factors contribute to early retirement decisions.Research design, approach and method: Two parallel processes were theorised to shape early retirement intention: a health impairment process (i.e. job demands → recovery need → early retirement intention) and a motivational process (i.e. job resources → work enjoyment → early retirement intention). Survey data were collected from a heterogeneous sample of 1812 older workers (age 45). Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypotheses.Main findings: Job demands and job resources were both associated with work enjoyment, which was associated with early retirement intention. Recovery need did not add to the prediction of early retirement intention.Practical/managerial implications: To retain older workers, companies should promote work conditions and practices that keep older workers motivated. Good health may be a necessary condition for retaining older workers, but it does not appear to be a sufficient one.Contribution/value-add: The results suggest that – for early retirement intention – the motivational process is more prominent than the health impairment process. | |
Publisher | AOSIS | |
Date | 2011-05-23 | |
Identifier | 10.4102/sajip.v37i2.859 | |
Source | SA Journal of Industrial Psychology; Vol 37, No 2 (2011); 11 pages 2071-0763 0258-5200 | |
Language | eng | |
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