Occupational Future Time Perspective: A Meta-Analysis of Antecedents and Outcomes

By C. Rudolph, D. Kooij, R. Rauvola, H. Zacher. 2018

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Occupational future time perspective (OFTP) refers to employees' perceptions of their future in the employment context. Based on lifespan and organizational psychology theories, we review research on OFTP and offer a meta‐analysis of antecedents and outcomes of OFTP (K = 40 independent samples, N = 19,112 workers). Results show that OFTP is associated with individual characteristics and personal resources, including age (ρ = −0.55), job tenure (ρ = −0.23), organizational tenure (ρ = −0.25), educational level (ρ = 0.16), and self‐rated physical health (ρ = 0.16), as well as job characteristics, such as job autonomy (ρ = 0.22). Moreover, OFTP is related to important work outcomes, including job satisfaction (ρ = 0.28), organizational commitment (ρ = 0.41), work engagement (ρ = 0.22), retirement intentions (ρ = −0.37), and work continuance intentions (ρ = 0.16). OFTP is also related to task (ρ = 0.11) and contextual performance (ρ = 0.20). Additional analyses show that OFTP predicts job attitudes and work performance above and beyond the effects of another developmental regulation construct, selection, optimization, and compensation strategies. Overall, the findings of our meta‐analysis suggest that OFTP is an important construct in the context of an aging workforce.

Subfields: Demography, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Demography

1. Ulrike Fasbender
2. A. Wöhrmann
3. Mo Wang
4. Ute‐Christine Klehe
5. H. Zacher
6. Kenneth S. Shultz

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Karen J. Jansen
2. A. Wöhrmann
3. Abbie J. Shipp
4. Mo Wang
5. Ute‐Christine Klehe
6. Ulrike Fasbender

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Abbie J. Shipp
2. Karen J. Jansen
3. Mo Wang
4. Ute‐Christine Klehe
5. Ulrike Fasbender
6. D. Kooij
7. Corine Boon

Citations in the corpus

• The “Other” Time: A Review of the Subjective Experience of Time in Organizations (2020, background): “…Humphreys, 2002*; Ybema, 2010*) O Occupational future time perspective (see also temporal focus) – Perceptions of the future in terms of one's career (Rudolph et al., 2018*; see also Zacher & Frese, 2009) Organizational forgetting – intentional omission or neutralization of contradictory details…”
• Is the future still open? The mediating role of occupational future time perspective in the effects of career adaptability and aging experience on late career planning (2019, background): “OFTP describes older workers' belief about how much time they have left to work and how they perceive that time in terms of their remaining opportunities (Rudolph et al., 2018; Zacher & Frese, 2009).”