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Employee Retirement: A Review and Recommendations for Future Investigation

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In this article, the authors provide a summary of key theoretical and empirical developments in employee retirement research since Beehr in 1986 and highlight inconsistent findings revealed by studies that were designed to answer the same research questions.
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This article is published in Journal of Management.The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 681 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Employee research & Retirement planning.

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To work or not to work in an extended working life? Factors in working and retirement decisions

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used self-rated health as a better measure than diagnosed disease of whether older workers believed they could work until 65 years or beyond, and found that health seems not to be a general impediment to working in old age if older workers are satisfied with their work situation and have enough time and opportunities to recover from fatigue.
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The role of personal characteristics, work environment and context in working beyond retirement: a mixed-methods study

TL;DR: Qualitative findings suggested that working beyond retirement was mainly driven by the desire to contribute to society, and identified the employers’ willingness to hire an older worker despite existing stereotypes as an important precondition.
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Constrained Agency in Later Working Lives: Introduction to the Special Issue

TL;DR: In this article, a set of papers on structure and agency in the area of later working lives and retirement, specifically focusing on situations where agency is constrained, are presented, and a broad range of country contexts are covered in the articles and rich-often longitudinal-data sources are used to advance our understanding of agency in later working life.
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The Transition to Retirement Experiences of Academics in “Higher Education”: A Meta-Ethnography

TL;DR: It is highlighted that academics transitioning to retirement experience varying retirement pathways, and awareness of the benefits of comprehensive retirement planning programs could enable academics to choose a retirement pathway that facilitates a smooth transition to retirement.
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Exploring Teachers’ Early-Retirement Decisions: A Qualitative Study

TL;DR: The authors found that while many of the reasons for early-retirement which are identified in other literature, such as personal health, family issues, and financial security influenced their decision to retire, the changes in management approaches which reflected the NPM agendas in schools, changing work load and the relationship with the principal paid a major part in their decisions.
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The theory of planned behavior

TL;DR: Ajzen, 1985, 1987, this article reviewed the theory of planned behavior and some unresolved issues and concluded that the theory is well supported by empirical evidence and that intention to perform behaviors of different kinds can be predicted with high accuracy from attitudes toward the behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control; and these intentions, together with perceptions of behavioral control, account for considerable variance in actual behavior.
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Self-Efficacy: The Exercise of Control

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Work and motivation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors integrate the work of hundreds of researchers in individual workplace behavior to explain choice of work, job satisfaction, and job performance, including motivation, goal incentive, and attitude.
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Healthy Work: Stress, Productivity, and the Reconstruction Of Working Life

TL;DR: In this article, a strategy for redesigning jobs to reduce unnecessary stress and improve productivity and job satisfaction is proposed, which is based on the concept of job redesigning and re-designing.
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