Career Sustainability of Young and Older Workers: Future Time Perspective Profiles and their relationships with goal orientation and learning motivation.

Raemdonck, Isabel;Parmentier, Michaël;Kanfer, Ruth
(2023) EAWOP — Location: Katowice, Poland (24.May.2023)

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  • Raemdonck, Isabelorcid-logoUCLouvain
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  • Parmentier, Michaëlorcid-logoUCLouvain
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  • Kanfer, Ruth
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The current changes in retirement policies that raise the legal retirement age to 65 (OECD, 2019) imply a need for the promotion of sustainable careers that enable workers to extend their working lives through actions that take a developmental approach (van der Heijden et al., 2020). This is valid for the careers of both young as well as older workers. A sustainable career is only possible if workers themselves have the tendency to think in terms of the future (the psychological time). When their future time is perceived as open, workers see many opportunities in front of them. Different researchers (see review Henry et al., 2017; Kooij et al., 2018) showed that Future Time Perspective (FTP) is more limited in older workers compared to younger workers as older workers become increasingly aware that their time is running out. Other researchers such as Carstensen and Lang (1996) demonstrated that an open FTP is associated with the pursuit of goals related to growth and development. Pursuing goals related to knowledge acquisition and training motivation are both key factors in developing a sustainable career. It is therefore important to explore the relation between FTP, goal orientation and training motivation in both young and older workers. Our main objective is to examine if different profiles of FTP exist in young and older workers and if there are differences in goal orientation and training motivation depending on the FTP profile.
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Raemdonck, I., Parmentier, M., & Kanfer, R. (2023). Career Sustainability of Young and Older Workers: Future Time Perspective Profiles and their relationships with goal orientation and learning motivation. EAWOP, Katowice, Poland. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/27068