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| Flexible work schedules, older workers, and retirement | | Author(s) | Jürg K Siegenthaler, Andrea M Brenner |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging & Social Policy, vol 12, no 1, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 19-34 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Phased retirement ; Hours of work ; Literature reviews ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Older workers in the United States indicate that they would prefer flexible work arrangements rather than abrupt retirement; yet management has done very little to make this possible. A review of two bodies of literature from the late 1980s is presented: social science writings, including sociological, gerontological and economic literature; and economic, business and management literature. There is a clash between the way jobs are traditionally scheduled and the needs of growing numbers of older workers. Workers continue to be subjected to obstacles in their requests for phased retirement, due to the structuring of health care and pension benefits, downsizing, organisational inflexibility and "corporate culture". Thus, social scientists' views on the desirability of flexible retirement will not produce change unless management becomes committed to such changes being securely embedded in company policies. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010420209 A |
| Classmark | G5N: WKD: 64A: 7T |
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