When do committed employees retire? The effects of organizational commitment on retirement plans under a defined-benefit pension plan

Human Resource Management

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 581-599

  Luchak, Andrew A ^a,b   Pohler, Dionne M ^b   Gellatly, Ian R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affective and continuance commitment; Defined benefit pension plan; Regulatory focus theory; Retirement; Self determination theory; Social policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 51549087435     PISSN: 00904848     EISSN: 1099050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hrm.20233     Document Type: Article

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