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Retirement Decisions and Expectations: A Case Study of Older Workers in the Motor Vehicle Industry
Author(s) -
O'Neill Kiera
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
australian journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1839-4655
pISSN - 0157-6321
DOI - 10.1002/j.1839-4655.1986.tb00812.x
Subject(s) - payroll , salary , workforce , sample (material) , business , publishing , project commissioning , demographic economics , labour economics , economics , accounting , political science , economic growth , chemistry , chromatography , market economy , law
The main intention of this study was to explore the circumstances of the workers' decision to retire, and to investigate their adjustment to retirement. A small sample (59) of recently retired men from both the payroll and salary sectors of the workforce at the Ford Geelong plant was interviewed in depth. The information collected provides a detailed picture of decisions made in the face of particular retirement packages provided to payroll and salary employees. The data give a picture of the extent to which various expectations about retirement were realised by the respondents. Comparisons have been made in the main between the payroll and salaried staff but some differences within each group have also been investigated.