1219: Career Endings: Perspectives on the Retirement Transition Experience (19571)

Organizer(s)

• AC

  Angie Cabrera Uribe

  U. of Texas At Arlington, United States

Participant(s)

• SW

  Sarah Wittman

  George Mason U., United States

Presenter(s)

• AF

  Ariane Froidevaux

  U. of Texas At Arlington, United States
• BC

  Bethany Cockburn

  Northern Illinois U., United States

Participant(s)

• MA

  Michael Arthur

  Suffolk U., United States

Discussant(s)

• MW

  Mo Wang

  U. of Florida, United States

Presenter(s)

• TA

  Teresa Amabile

  Harvard U., United States

Participant(s)

• LB

  Lotte Bailyn

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
• LC

  Laura Crary

  Professor emerita, United States
• DH

  Douglas Hall

  Boston U., United States
• KK

  Kathy Kram

  Boston U., United States
• LG

  Laura Guillén

  U. Ramon Llull, ESADE Business School, Spain

Presenter(s)

• YL

  Yuqi Liu

  U. Ramon Llull, ESADE Business School, Spain

The irreversible global trend of population aging and its critical implications for labor supply have led to a significant increase of scholarly interest in the areas of aging, transition, and retirement (Froidevaux, 2024). Although research efforts have enhanced our understanding of retirement and its antecedents and outcomes (Wang & Shi, 2014), current knowledge about aging and retirement is far from complete (Wang & Huang, 2023). This symposium consists of four papers, each addressing important research questions at one or more of the retirement phases according to the temporal process model of retirement (Shultz & Wang 2011; Froidevaux, 2024): retirement planning and decision making, bridge employment, retirement transition, and retirement adjustment. To first provide an overview on the entire retirement process, we start with Paper 1 on how the self and life structure interact during the four phases of the retirement process, followed by three papers that look into a specific phase. Digging into the retirement planning and decision-making phase, Paper 2 explores the challenges aging leaders are facing before retirement so that they anticipate (retaining) losing relevance in the organization, followed by Paper 3 that discusses how spirituality fosters sustainable careers so that the decision to retire fully may no longer be necessary for psychological reasons only. Finally, addressing the retirement adjustment phase, Paper 4 examines how emeriti professors enact their lives after retirement and what factors contribute to their life satisfaction.

Presentations:

• 09:45 – 11:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1219: The Interplay between Self and Life Structure in the Retirement Transition (19571)
  

  Author: Teresa M. Amabile – Harvard U.

  Author: Lotte Bailyn – Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Author: Laura M. Crary – Professor emerita

  Author: Douglas T. Hall – Boston U.

  Author: Kathy E. Kram – Boston U.
• 09:45 – 11:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1219: What older leaders talk about when they are (not) primed with workplace age stereotypes (19571)
  

  Author: Laura Guillén – U. Ramon Llull, ESADE Business School

  Author: Yuqi Liu – U. Ramon Llull, ESADE Business School

  Author: Sarah Wittman – George Mason U.
• 09:45 – 11:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1219: From “Retirement as a Compensatory Mechanism” to “Enjoying Retirement Psychological Benefits" (19571)
  

  Author: Ariane Froidevaux – U. of Texas At Arlington
• 09:45 – 11:15 CT (GMT-5/UTC-5)

  1219: Emeriti Paths: Navigating Retirement from a Business School (19571)
  

  Author: Ariane Froidevaux – U. of Texas At Arlington

  Author: Sarah Wittman – George Mason U.

  Author: Bethany Cockburn – Northern Illinois U.

  Author: Douglas T. Hall – Boston U.

  Author: Michael B. Arthur – Suffolk U.