"What really Counts is Your Determination but not Your Age":A study on the Inducing Factors and Multiple Driving Paths of Successful Aging at Work in Chinese Enterprises
With the continuous deepening of aging in China,the aging of labor force in enterprises will become the normal in the workplace.How to promote Successful Aging at Work has become the hot topic in human resource management,which is of great significance for improving organizational performance and developing China's human capital value of elderly employees.Our study first explored possible factors in the management context of local enterprises by the content analysis method,then set SAW as the outcome variable,individual factors,factors for enterprises,as well as social and family factors as the antecedent variables,to further explore the combinations of antecedent.Research reveals that firstly individual factors including active selection,optimization and compensation,investment in psychological capital,strengthening personal abilities,factors for enterprises including work environment,work design,education and training,and social and family factors including family-work balance,providing support to future generations are antecedents that can induce SAW.Among them,active selection and optimization and compensation,investment in psychological capital,and work design are the necessary conditions;secondly,three paths originating from seven conditional configurations can be generated,respectively"individual-organizational strong response towards collaborative driving path","strong enterprise leading towards moderate individual response driving path",and"individual-organizational weak responses towards interactive driving path".Work design is the only common core condition in the above configurations,and the secondary core conditions consist of work environment,active selection and optimization and compensation,and investment in psychological capital.Other antecedent conditions such as strengthening personal abilities,education and training,family-work balance,and providing support to future generations are existent or nonexistent as marginal conditions with limited promoting effect is.Finally,this article proposes suggestions to promote the successful aging of the workplace in enterprises.
Successful Aging at WorkWork DesignWorking EnvironmentActive Selection & Optimization and CompensationInvesting Psychological Capital
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