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Uncertain Futures: Managing Late Career Transitions and Extended Working Life

不确定的未来：管理后期职业转型和延长工作寿命

基本信息

批准号：
ES/L002949/1
负责人：
Sarah Vickerstaff
金额：
$ 75.59万
依托单位：
University of Kent
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2014 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FL002949%2F1
关键词：
Uncertain Futures Managing Late Career

项目摘要

The various transitions from work to retirement have undergone radical transformation over the past few decades. From a period when individuals were encouraged and looked forward to retiring early we have entered an era when living longer is presented as an opportunity, or an obligation, to work longer and extend our working lives. A review of the research literature on the extension of working life has identified a variety of factors implicated in individual decision-taking. These include: health status, pension provision, caring responsibilities, opportunities for flexible work and other external and individual factors. Statistical models using these determinants have left much of the variance in employment between individuals unexplained, because of the difficulty of capturing the complexity of factors in each case. The aim of this study is to contribute to knowledge about the processes and factors which exert influence on working in later life with the aim of enhancing policy development and employer practice.The ending of the default retirement age (DRA) opens up a radically different environment for the individual and the employer: both are entering periods of uncertainty in exploring work options for the future. The transition from work to retirement is no longer well-institutionalised but much more subject to a myriad of organisational and individual pressures which may be unpredictable; as such these transitions carry new risks both for employers and employees. This proposal from a multidisciplinary team will use a mixed methods approach to develop a richer picture of what is happening at the end of working life.These issues will be addressed through a series of work packages:WP1: International literature and policy review; to what extent are similar developments being studied and tracked in other parts of Europe, Australia and the USA.WP2: Analysis of existing data sets (English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), National Child Development Study (NCDS) and Health and Retirement Survey (HRS);WP3: The collection of new data through organisational case studies; andWP4: The synthesis of data and theoretical development: the data will be used to gain a clearer understanding of the interaction between individual and external determinants in shaping later life work transitions.The research will enhance our understanding of the range of later life work transitions, i.e. gradual retirement, bridge jobs, returns to retirement ('unretirement') and will develop theoretical approaches to the new forms of risk and uncertainty in the middle and later stages of the life course.The research consortia includes early, middle and later career academics from a variety of academic disciplines which provides the opportunity to benefit from the insights, approaches and methodological variety that multi-disciplinarity brings as well as from the inter-generational transfer of ideas. The team is also in a position to offer excellent development opportunities to two post-docs and two PhD students who it is hoped will go on to enrich the research community in the field of older workers and establish their own high quality research careers.In addition to traditional academic outputs the dissemination will also include the development of more practical tools useful for research users. These will include guidance for groups including human resource managers on factors to consider in later life working and ergonomists and occupational health professionals on work capacity changes and workplace and work organisation changes that can be considered.

从工作到退休的各种过渡在过去几十年中经历了根本性的转变。从一个鼓励个人并期待早日退休的时期，我们已经进入了一个时代，在这个时代，长寿被视为一种机会或义务，可以延长工作时间并延长我们的工作寿命。对关于延长工作年限的研究文献进行审查后发现，个人决策涉及各种因素。这些因素包括：健康状况、养老金的提供、照顾责任、灵活工作的机会以及其他外部和个人因素。使用这些决定因素的统计模型无法解释个体之间的就业差异，因为很难捕捉每种情况下因素的复杂性。本研究的目的是，为了促进政策制定和雇主实践，对影响晚年工作的过程和因素进行了解。默认退休年龄的结束为个人和雇主打开了一个完全不同的环境：双方都进入了探索未来工作选择的不确定时期。从工作到退休的过渡不再是制度化的，而是更多地受到无数可能无法预测的组织和个人压力的影响;因此，这些过渡对雇主和雇员都带来了新的风险。这份提案来自一个多学科的团队，将使用混合方法，以更丰富地了解职业生涯结束时发生的情况。这些问题将通过一系列工作包来解决：WP 1：国际文献和政策审查;在欧洲、澳大利亚和美国的其他地区，类似的发展正在研究和跟踪到什么程度。WP 2：现有数据集分析（英国老龄化纵向研究（艾尔莎）、全国儿童发展研究（NCDS）和健康与退休调查（HRS）;工作方案3：通过组织案例研究收集新数据;工作方案4：数据综合和理论发展：这些数据将用于更清楚地了解个人和外部因素在塑造晚年工作过渡方面的相互作用。这项研究将加强我们对晚年工作过渡范围的理解，即逐步退休，过渡工作，退休金（“未退休”），并将发展理论方法，以新形式的风险和不确定性，在中期和后期的生命历程。研究财团包括早期，来自不同学科的中晚期职业学者，这提供了从多学科带来的见解，方法和方法多样性以及思想的代际转移中受益的机会。该团队还能够为两名博士后和两名博士生提供良好的发展机会，希望他们能够继续丰富老年工作者领域的研究社区，并建立自己的高质量研究事业。除了传统的学术成果外，传播还将包括开发对研究用户有用的更实用的工具。这些将包括指导团体，包括人力资源经理在晚年工作中考虑的因素，以及人体工程学家和职业健康专业人员在工作能力变化和工作场所和工作组织变化可以考虑。