Biology Week 3 Assignment: Literature Review Research Matrix 7860

Parenthetical Citation

Identify the main concepts; often the “keywords” are helpful for identifying main concepts

Provide the research question(s) and/or hypotheses (word-for-word) and state if the questions/

hypotheses were properly aligned to the research method and design

Conceptual or Theoretical Framework (if not provided, offer your analysis of what framework was applied or what would be a logical one to have applied)

Population description, Sample description, “N=” (number of actual participants)

Research method (approach) & design applied (do not included data collection and data analysis information)

Summary of Findings (in your own words)

(Mok et al., 2022)

Ageing, Workforce, Human resource management, Career development, Narrative thematic analysis

RQ1. How do HR professionals’ personal, social and organisational experiences influence their approach to career development of older workers? RQ2. How do HR professionals’ personal experiences of career development contribute to their organisation’s career development practices for older workers?

Career development theory

***Please note that Ricoeur’s theory of interpretation is not a theoretical framework. It is a theory that supports a method for the thematic-narrative data analysis.

N = 14 participants; 4 men and 10 women; HR professionals with 3-35 years of experience from three large Australian organizations

Qualitative;

Narrative study with hermeneutic phenomeno-logical research design

Three themes emerged from the participants including HR professionals being the “protagonist of their own career development stories”, being the enforcer of career development practices and being an agent for change in their organizations. HR professionals who worked to develop their own careers were more likely to notice older workers who were overlooked for career development. HR professionals who were older workers themselves often were better able to advocate for others and themselves if they’d engaged in career development later in their own careers. As organizations became more digitized, HR leaders could help ease that knowledge growth path for older employees who were in danger of losing their jobs to digital platforms that could do the work instead. The presence of the “enabling enforcer mindset”, a more varied set of HR-connected career options were made available for older workers to grow into.