Employee Retirement: A Review and Recommendations for Future Investigation

Journal of Management, Vol. 36, No. 1, January 2010

35 Pages Posted: 7 Jul 2015

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Mo Wang

University of Florida - Department of Management

Kenneth Shultz

California State University, San Bernardino

Date Written: January 2010

Abstract

Despite the obvious importance of retirement to employees, their employing organizations, and the larger society, the last comprehensive review of employee retirement in the field of organizational science was published more than 20 years ago. As such, the first purpose of this review is to provide a summary of key theoretical and empirical developments in employee retirement research since Beehr in 1986. A second purpose of this review is to highlight inconsistent findings revealed by studies that were designed to answer the same research questions. By identifying and scrutinizing those inconsistent findings, this study expects to provide suggestions and recommendations to further the theoretical development in the field of retirement research to address these research gaps. As a result, this proposed review would be of interest to scholars in a wide variety of areas within the organizational sciences, including human resource management, organizational behavior, organizational theory, and research methods.

Keywords: retirement, retirement planning, early retirement, retirement transition and adjustment, bridge employment, aging

Suggested Citation

Wang, Mo and Shultz, Kenneth, Employee Retirement: A Review and Recommendations for Future Investigation (January 2010). Journal of Management, Vol. 36, No. 1, January 2010, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2627277

Mo Wang (Contact Author)

University of Florida - Department of Management ( email )

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Kenneth Shultz

California State University, San Bernardino ( email )

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San Bernardino, CA 92407
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