Older workers & psychological contracts: A dynamic perspective

该项目旨在跟踪老年员工的心理契约轨迹，这些契约塑造了他们与组织的互让关系。人们对这些心理契约如何随着老年工人在他们生命的第五、第六、第七和第八个十年中继续追求工作而变化知之甚少。该项目通过密集、重复的深入访谈和大规模的纵向小组研究来跟踪老年工人。这些结果填补了我们对老年工人的需求和工作方向的理解方面的重大空白，并确定了与年龄相关的变化和组织实践，这些变化和组织实践刺激了老年工人保持强有力的生产性参与劳动力的轨迹。

This project aims to track the trajectories of older workers’ psychological contracts that shape their give-and-take with the organisation. Little is understood about how these psychological contracts change as older workers continue to pursue work through their fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth decades of life. This project tracks older workers over intensive, repeated in-depth interviews and a large-scale longitudinal panel study. The outcomes fill significant gaps in our understanding of older workers’ needs and orientation toward work, and identify the age-related changes and organisational practices that spur older workers to sustain a strong trajectory of productive participation in the workforce.