| dc.description.abstract | A study of the relationship between middle-aged and aged workers and work-related motivation
Abstract
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between middle-aged and aged workers and work-related motivation, since middle-aged and aged workers have already become one of the major workforces of enterprises, and governments also encourage middle-aged and aged workers to continue working and change the policy to extend the retirement age schedule. Studies by Western scholars have found that middle-aged and aged workers are less motivated in working continuously because of their age. Consequently, work value is shifted from “instrumental values” to “terminal values”; “acquisition of knowledge goals” is transformed into “regulation of emotions goals”. However, the results of Chuang (2015), indicate that there was a positive relationship between middle-aged and aged workers and continuing work motivation in Taiwan, highlighting the conclusion that was contrary to western research results.
Therefore, I plan to extend the results of Chuang (2015) and that can give further understanding of the working motivation of middle-aged and aged workers, in order to provide the effective measurement of human resources management, as well as build the foundation for future research toward middle-aged and aged workers.
The study mainly discusses the relationship among continue to work, work growth and focus on opportunities., using physiological (practical) age to serve as independent, and three different motivations serving as dependent variables. The results of regression analysis show that there is a significant positive relationship between age and continue to work. Furthermore, we obtained the same findings as this thesis by analyzing the previous data of Chuang (2015), together with the present information from qualitative interviews: “The older you are, the more you want to continue to work.” Again, this result runs contrary to the study of western research, and is inconsistent with the Socioemotional Selectivity Theory: a negative relationship between age, future time perspective and continue to work.
The conclusions of this study are not only practically and valuable information for enterprises but also are academically important for further research.
Keywords: Middle-aged and aged workers, Continue to work, Work growth, Focus on Opportunities | en_US |