Abstract
Since the rapidly aging population and the huge pension balance gap, an important challenge for many contemporary organizations is to engage and motivate the mature-age workers. Drawing on signaling theory and socioemotional selectivity theory, the current study examined the effects of supportive mature-age practices on older individuals’ work engagement via their focus on opportunities. This study also examined the moderating role of work centrality on the indirect effect of mature-age practices on work engagement. Data from 132 Chinese mature-age workers revealed that mature-age practices were positively associated with older individuals’ focus on opportunities, which in turn positively related to their work engagement. Further, the indirect effect of mature-age practices on work engagement via focus on opportunities is stronger for mature-age workers with lower work centrality as opposed to those with higher work centrality. The findings are discussed in terms of their theoretical implications for aging workforce management literature and practical implications for engaging mature-age workers.
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