TY - JOUR
T1 - Age and Career Resilience Through the Lens of Life Course Theory: Examining Individual Mechanisms and Macro‐Level Context Across 28 Countries
AU - Goštautaitė, Bernadeta
AU - Kim, Najung
AU - Steindórsdóttr, Bryndits D.
AU - Parry, Emma
AU - Della Russo, Silvia
AU - Andresen, Maike
AU - Buranapin, Siriwut
AU - Bosak, Janine
AU - Cerdin, Jean-Luc
AU - Chudzikowski, Katharina
AU - Cotton, Rick
AU - Dickmann, Michael
AU - Duarte, Henrique
AU - Ferencikova, Sonia
AU - Kaše, Robert
AU - Lysova, Evgenia I.
AU - Madero‐Gómez, Sergio
AU - Kumar Mishra, Sushanta
AU - Panayotopoulou, Leda
AU - Reiss, Ela L. K.
AU - Saxena, Richa
AU - Taniguchi, Mami
AU - Verbruggen, Marijke
AU - Akkermans, Jos
AU - Apospori, Eleni
AU - Bagdadli, Silvia
AU - Briscoe, Jon P.
AU - Çakmak‐Otluoğlu, Övgü
AU - Casado, Tania
AU - Cha, Jong-Seok
AU - Dries, Nicky
AU - Dysvik, Anders
AU - Eggenhofer-Rehart, Petra
AU - Gartzia, Leire
AU - Gianecchini, Martina
AU - Gubler, Martin
AU - Hall, Douglas Tim
AU - Jepsen, Denise
AU - Khapova, Svetlana
AU - Krajcik, Daniel
AU - Lapointe, Emilie
AU - Lazarova, Mila
AU - Mayrhofer, Wolfgang
AU - Michel, Eric J.
AU - Milikic, Biljana
AU - Reichel, Astrid
AU - Schramm, Florian
AU - Smale, Adam
AU - Stolz, Ingo
AU - Agata Suzanne, Pamela
AU - Zikic, Jelena
PY - 2025/4/8
Y1 - 2025/4/8
N2 - Career resilience is critical to the world's aging workforce, aiding older workers in adapting to the ever‐evolving nature of work.While ageist stereotypes often depict older workers as less resilient when faced with workplace changes, existing research studies offer conflicting evidence on whether older age hinders or improves career resilience. In response to this conflictingevidence, the present study employs multi‐level data from 6772 employees in 28 countries to examine the age‐career resiliencerelationships and underlying mechanisms, hence advancing our understanding of career resilience across the life course. Byintegrating macro‐contextual factors such as the unemployment rate and the culture of education with individual‐levelmechanisms such as positive career meaning and career optimism, we provide a comprehensive model explaining howcareer resilience varies across age groups. Grounded in life course theory, our findings resolve prior inconsistencies in resilienceresearch, contribute to bridging the micro‐macro gap in HRM literature, and challenge existing age‐based stereotypes
AB - Career resilience is critical to the world's aging workforce, aiding older workers in adapting to the ever‐evolving nature of work.While ageist stereotypes often depict older workers as less resilient when faced with workplace changes, existing research studies offer conflicting evidence on whether older age hinders or improves career resilience. In response to this conflictingevidence, the present study employs multi‐level data from 6772 employees in 28 countries to examine the age‐career resiliencerelationships and underlying mechanisms, hence advancing our understanding of career resilience across the life course. Byintegrating macro‐contextual factors such as the unemployment rate and the culture of education with individual‐levelmechanisms such as positive career meaning and career optimism, we provide a comprehensive model explaining howcareer resilience varies across age groups. Grounded in life course theory, our findings resolve prior inconsistencies in resilienceresearch, contribute to bridging the micro‐macro gap in HRM literature, and challenge existing age‐based stereotypes
U2 - 10.1111/1748-8583.12596
DO - 10.1111/1748-8583.12596
M3 - Originalbeitrag in Fachzeitschrift
SN - 0954-5395
JO - Human Resource Management Journal
JF - Human Resource Management Journal
ER -