‘I'd rather keep running to the end and then jump off the cliff’. Retirement Decisions: Who Decides?
‘I'd rather keep running to the end and then jump off the cliff’. Retirement Decisions: Who Decides?
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“我宁愿一直跑到最后，然后跳下悬崖”。退休决定：谁决定？
DOI：
10.1017/s0047279406009871
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
S. Vickerstaff
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作者：
S. Vickerstaff
与欧洲其他地方一样，英国政府热衷于鼓励个人推迟退休、工作更长时间并为退休储蓄更多。本文认为，大部分公众讨论都是基于一个有争议的前提，即大多数人都积极选择“提前”下班。迄今为止，有关退休决策的研究主要集中在个人因素上，这些因素导致提前退休，而忽视了雇主在决定退休时间方面的作用。本文报告的新研究通过三个组织案例研究进行，探讨了退休管理以及员工个人如何体验这些过程。它采用“退休区”和退休情景的概念来展示个人属性（本身会发生变化）和组织实践（也不可预测且可变）的相互作用如何产生退休结果。其结论是，管理层对个人退休的方式和时间有相当大的自由裁量权。因此，政府需要认识到，大多数人对于休假的个人自由裁量权可能相对较小，因此集中精力敦促他们延长工作时间和延迟退休可能会错过政策改变的真正目标。
Government in the UK, as elsewhere in Europe, is keen to encourage individuals to delay their retirement, work for longer and save more for their retirement. This article argues that much of this public discussion is based on the debatable premise that most people are actively choosing to leave work ‘early’. Research on retirement decisions hitherto has concentrated on individual factors, which dispose towards early retirement and has neglected the role of the employer in determining retirement timing. New research reported here, undertaken in three organisational case studies, explores the management of retirement and how individual employees experience these processes. It employs the concepts of the ‘retirement zone’ and retirement scenarios to demonstrate how the interaction of individual attributes (themselves subject to change) and organisational practices (also unpredictable and variable) produces retirement outcomes. It concludes that there is considerable management discretion over the manner and timing of individual retirements. Hence, government needs to recognise that the majority of individuals may have relatively little personal discretion over their departure from work and hence concentration on urging them to work for longer and delay retiring may be missing the real target for policy change.