Exploring the Black Box of Managing Total Rewards for Older Professionals in the Canadian Financial Services Sector. Issue 3 (10th September 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: St-Onge, Sylvie; Beauchamp Legault, Marie-Ève; Ballesteros-Leiva, Félix; Haines, Victor; Saba, Tania
• Is Part Of: Canadian journal on aging. Volume 41:Issue 3(2022)
• Page Start: 476
• Page End: 489
• Publication Date: 2022-09-10
• Subjects: aging -- management of older workers -- total rewards -- financial services sector; vieillissement -- gestion des travailleurs âgés -- rémunération globale -- secteur des services financiers; Gerontology -- Periodicals; Gerontology -- Canada -- Periodicals; 612.6705
• DOI: 10.1017/S0714980821000362
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0714-9808

Abstract

Abstract: This study extends our knowledge about the management of older employees in the sector of financial services, which faces enormous transformational pressures (e.g., emergence of artificial intelligence, digital services). Based on the black box model of human resource management, we investigate how executives at 16 major financial institutions manage their total rewards to motivate their older professionals to stay at work longer. Top management's views towards older professionals underlie a firm's culture or climate, and more precisely, the extent of the perception that they are a strategic resource that needs focused management. Across firms, such adaptation (or lack thereof) is made through the following total rewards components: (1) flexibility in working time and place of work, (2) hiring of retirees, (3) hiring or promotion of older professionals, (4) role adjustment, (5) responsibilities and performance standards, (6) monetary rewards, benefits, and (7) recognition, succession planning, and support for retirement planning or preparation. The black box model should be used in future research to understand which reward components work best in which contextsto motivate older workers to stay at work longer.