RETIREMENT STRESS AND MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES AMONG CIVIL SERVANTS (A STUDY OF RETIREES FROMANAMBRA STATE MINISTRY OF WORKS, AWKA)
Journal Title: Advance Research Journal of Multidisciplinary Discoveries - Year 2017, Vol 16, Issue 8
Abstract
This paper is centered on the study of retirement stress and management strategies among civil servants. This study is interested in establishing whether effective retirement plan help to reduce retirement stress. The research design adopted for the study is a descriptive survey design. Questionnaire was used to collect relevant data. Simple percentage and chi – square statistics were used to analyze the data collected. The findings of the study include the fact that retired civil servants are experiencing stressful retirement from ten different sources, the main one being financial insufficiency. It was found that effective retirement plan help to reduce retirement stress. It was recommended that skills should be incorporated into the induction – training programs of all employees. In the same vein, government should establish a mandatory tripartite funded pension saving scheme, an account to which the main signatory would be the individual retirees and only withdrawable after retirement.
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Dr. Ethelmary Ogochukwu Dim
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