Managers鈥� work and retirement: understanding the connections
Authors: Martin, B. and Lee, M. D.
笔耻产濒颈肠补迟颈辞苍:听Work, employment and society
Abstract:
Private sector managers鈥� pathways through late career and retirement are important, but insufficiently聽studied. Based on a large qualitative study of retiring managers in big Canadian firms, this article聽explores the relationships between managers鈥� work during their careers, their retirement transitions聽and their retirement activities. Three distinctive patterns of managerial work and careers are found:聽those of expert managers, organization managers and strategic managers. They are strongly related聽to how managers end their 鈥榝ull commitment鈥� careers and then build retirement lives by combining聽leisure activities, family commitments, civic involvement and paid work. Variations in retirement pathways are not well predicted by either individualization theory or theories based on generational or class habitus. Managers appear to develop distinctive orientations to acting with agency that arise from the way managerial work is organized; and these frame managers鈥� retirement pathways. These findings may indicate why individualization does not necessarily lead to life course destandardization.
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