dc.description.abstract | With the development of medical technology and the decline in fertility rate, the young and middle-aged labor and aging labor force are getting shortage in the future. How to encourage excellent middle-aged employees to continue to contribute to the organization have become an important issue.
Based on Socioemotional Selectivity Theory, Conservation of Resource and Discrepancy Theory, this research used age as the independent variable, the motivation of continue to work and motivations of focus on opportunities as the dependent variable, to explore the correlation between these two variables. Furthermore, the satisfaction of HRM is set as the moderator, to study the moderating effect on age and work motivation, and aims to improve the employee′s work motivation by enhancing their job satisfaction, and help the organization to retain high-value middle-aged employees.
This study conducted a sampling questionnaire survey of 63 private enterprises in various industries, including high-tech manufacturing, financial and insurance services, general manufacturing, non-financial services and other industries. The subjects are the employees at all level of ages, positions, seniority and department. A total of 527 questionnaires were released, and 395 valid questionnaires were returned. The study discovered that age growth does reduce the motivation of focus on opportunities, but it is not significantly related to the motivation of continue to work; and the satisfaction of HRM have moderating effect on the motivation of focus on opportunities.
Although the results of this study are not the same as those of Western scholars, it is hoped that the final discussion and recommendations of this research will be used as a reference for future scholars interested in researching related topics. | en_US |