Designing a model for empowering employees on the verge of retirement in (Case Study: Iran's electricity industry)

Retirement occurs at a stage of the life cycle when the capacity of people to adapt to new life conditions is limited. When a person's retirement is planned for him, he will face it easily, in this regard, one of the measures that can be taken by organizations is to empower the employees who are about to retire. Therefore, the main goal of this research is to identify the mechanisms of empowering employees on the verge of retirement and the relationships between them, and finally provide a model of empowering employees on the verge of retirement in Iran's electricity industry. Considering the nature of the subject, the present research was conducted using qualitative method with Grounded theory. The data was analyzed after interviewing 14 experts of the electricity industry who were selected by snowball sampling method, and a total of 357 codes, 70 concepts and 18 categories were identified. After open coding, from the analysis of qualitative data, a axial coding paradigm was formulated, based on which, the line of communication between research categories including causal conditions (preparing the individual and the organization to face the retirement period), the core category (implementation of employee empowerment programs about to retire), context conditions (promoting factors of employee empowerment on the verge of retirement), intervening conditions (inhibiting factors of employee empowerment on the verge of retirement), strategies of empowering people on the verge of retirement and consequences were identified. In the following, based on selective coding, components of qualitative research model were described.