Working after retirement, will gender make a difference in leading?
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2023-07-12
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Currently, many older workers are unemployed, while organisations are struggling to find new employees. This is in line with the ''ageing population'' trend. A possible short-term solution could be to allow older workers to continue working after retirement. For this short-term solution it is important for organisations and policymakers to take into account new trends around older workers. Leadership could potentially influence whether someone stays at work after retirement.
In this study, leaders' behaviour (i.e. appreciation and responsiveness to the individual) is expected to be positively related to bridge employment. Besides the role of leaders' behaviour, research has shown that leaders' gender may also be relevant to consider because men and women have different ways of leading. Therefore, gender of the manager is also expected to potentially influence the relationship between leadership behaviours and bridge employment. To test these hypotheses, a quantitative study with 235 respondents was conducted.
The results indicated that both leadership behaviours influenced bridge employment, but that gender of the manager has no role in this. For the last two hypotheses on gender, no significant relationship was found. The contribution of this study is that leaders’ behaviour may be important for older workers in an organisation, potentially to keep them at work longer.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen