Based upon conservation of resources theory, this study is the first to explore (1) the relations between life‐domain support received by internationally mobile employees (IMEs) from their organization, supervisors, coworkers, and family and friends and their life‐domain conflicts and enrichments in two directions: work life → personal life (WL → PL) and personal life → work life (PL → WL) and (2) whether these links are different between assigned expatriates (AEs) and self‐initiated expatriates (SIEs). The questionnaire data were collected from 182 SIEs and 102 AEs. Results from multivariate analyses show that (1) the more IMEs perceive receiving life‐domain support from their family and friends and their organization, the less they report life‐domain conflicts and (2) the more IMEs perceive receiving life‐domain support from their coworkers, the more they report life‐domain enrichments. Finally, it appears that AEs' perceived life‐domain organizational support is positively related to their perceived WL → PL enrichments and that SIEs' perceived life‐domain coworker support is negatively related to their life‐domain conflicts in both directions.
Des études ont montré que les organisations soucieuses de leur performance, de leur capacité d’attraction et de fidélisation du personnel et de leur responsabilité sociale doivent se soucier du bien-être de leurs employés. Pour les employeurs, il importe donc de mieux comprendre les déterminants du bien-être des employés afin de pouvoir l’optimiser. Cette étude innove en explorant les liens entre les perceptions des employés à l’égard des conflits et des enrichissements entre leurs vies professionnelle et personnelle et leur bien-être tant subjectif que psychologique. Cette recherche a été menée par questionnaire auprès de 798 cadres ou professionnels. Les résultats confirment que (1) plus les répondants ressentent des conflits « travail-famille » et des conflits « famille-travail » élevés, moins ils expriment de bien-être, tant subjectif que psychologique ; (2) plus les cadres et les professionnels perçoivent des enrichissements « travail-famille » élevés, plus ils ressentent de bien-être subjectif. Toutefois, les liens positifs attendus entre les perceptions des enrichissements « famille-travail » et le bien-être psychologique s’avèrent statistiquement significatifs pour les hommes seulement. Des implications pour la recherche et la pratique sont décrites notamment, à l’égard de l’organisation du travail, de l’appui que peuvent offrir les organisations et du changement des croyances quant à l’opposition des rôles professionnels et personnels.
PurposeIn the context of population aging, retirement has become a central issue in academic, professional and government discourse. A consensus can be seen to be emerging around the idea of postponing retirement in favor of promoting active aging. From this perspective, the purpose of this study, using work-role attachment theory and met expectations theory, is to focus on the pre-retirement period and aims to better understand how certain individual factors and expectations explain the planned age of retirement.Design/methodology/approachAn online survey was administered in 2015 to employees aged 45 and over working at a Canadian firm in the high-technology sector.FindingsThe results show that career commitment, attachment to work and expectations relating to workplace adjustments prior to retirement were positively associated with planned retirement age, whereas expectations relating to professional development showed a negative association with this variable.Practical implicationsThis study fits into a line of research focusing on the end-of-career period and sheds light on the decision to retire by looking closely at the impact of employment conditions and human resource management practices on this decision. In a labor market context marked by high numbers of workers aged 55 and older, combined with the increasingly critical need for skilled labor and considering the expectations of workers leading up to their retirement could help to better plan these workers' end-of-career period.Originality/valueMany studies have examined the characteristics of retirees after retirement. The authors’ study is one of the few that examines the aspirations of workers between the ages of 45 and 55 who are still employed but are beginning to consider their retirement plans, including the decision to continue working longer. Its originality also lies in combining work-role attachment theory and met expectations theory.
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