The Retirement Syndrome:: The Psychology of Letting Go
This article analyzes a problem that can be described as the retirement syndrome. In exploring the difficulties many leaders face in letting go at the end of a full career, it reviews a number of the barriers to exit: financial, social, and psychological. It looks at the physical and psychological effects of aging, in the context of retirement; examines the experience of nothingness that single-minded careerists often feel after retirement; describes the talion principle, a subliminal fear of reprisals; and discusses the 'edifice complex,' the wish to leave behind a legacy. The article concludes with suggestions as to how individuals and organizations can develop more effective and humane disengagement strategies.
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2003
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Authors: | Kets de Vries, Manfred |
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European Management Journal. - Elsevier, ISSN 0263-2373. - Vol. 21.2003, 6, p. 707-716
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Retirement Letting go Psychological and physiological effects of aging CEO blues Depression Nothingness Talion principle Edifice complex Power Disengagement |
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