Journal of Managerial Psychology: Volume 28 Issue 7/8

Understanding and facilitating age diversity in organizations

Dianna L. Stone, Lois E. Tetrick

The article aims to introduce two Special Issues of Journal of Managerial Psychology on age diversity in organizations. It reviews two frameworks for understanding age diversity…

Facilitating age diversity in organizations – part I: challenging popular misbeliefs

Guido Hertel, Béatrice I.J.M. van der Heijden, Annet H. de Lange, Jürgen Deller

In recent years, significant demographic changes in most industrial countries have tremendously affected the age distribution of workers in organizations. In general, the…

Age, resistance to change, and job performance

Florian Kunze, Stephan Boehm, Heike Bruch

In light of the increasingly aging workforce, it is interesting from both a theoretical and practical perspective to investigate empirically the commonly held stereotype that…

Work-family conflict across the lifespan

Ann Huffman, Satoris S. Culbertson, Jaime B. Henning, Adrian Goh

Research on work-family conflict has primarily focused on younger workers, with little attention being paid to workers across the lifespan. To address this gap, the current study…

Age and work-related stress: a review and meta-analysis

Cornelia Rauschenbach, Stefan Krumm, Markus Thielgen, Guido Hertel

The ongoing demographic changes in many industrialized countries affect managerial decisions in many ways, and require sound knowledge of systematic age differences in central…

Organizational justice, sickness absence and employee age

Aino Tenhiälä, Anne Linna, Monika von Bonsdorff, Jaana Pentti, Jussi Vahtera, Mika Kivimäki, Marko Elovainio

The aim of this paper is to study age-related differences in how perceptions of two forms of organizational justice, i.e. procedural and interactional justice, are related to…

Age and environmental sustainability: a meta-analysis

Brenton M. Wiernik, Deniz S. Ones, Stephan Dilchert

Research has shown that individuals of different ages hold different environmental attitudes and perform environmental behaviors of different kinds and to varying degrees. The…

Facilitating age diversity in organizations – part II: managing perceptions and interactions

Guido Hertel, Béatrice I.J.M. Van der Heijden, Annet H. de Lange, Jürgen Deller

Due to demographic changes in most industrialized countries, the average age of working people is continuously increasing, and the workforce is becoming more age-diverse. This…

Age effects on perceived personality and job performance

Marilena Bertolino, Donald M. Truxillo, Franco Fraccaroli

This paper aimed to investigate how older and younger workers are perceived in terms of Big Five personality and task and contextual performance. Based on the intergroup bias…

Hiring retirees: impact of age norms and stereotypes

Kasia Karpinska, Kene Henkens, Joop Schippers

This study aims to investigate the role of managers in the re-employment of early retirees and focuses on the effect of managers' age norms and stereotypes on managers' employment…

Exploring the workplace impact of intentional/unintentional age discrimination

Jacquelyn Boone James, Sharon McKechnie, Jennifer Swanberg, Elyssa Besen

– The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between employee perceptions of unfair treatment of older workers and employee engagement.

Age, forgiveness, and meeting behavior: a multilevel study

Eva Maria Schulte, Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock, Simone Kauffeld

This paper aims to examine the effects of age on counteractive team meeting behaviors (e.g. complaining). Forgiveness is included as a potential buffer against these behaviors. A…

Managing knowledge exchange and identification in age diverse teams

Thomas Ellwart, Silke Bündgens, Oliver Rack

This paper aims to examine the impact of individual and group-level variables on knowledge exchange and identification in age diverse teams. From a diversity perspective…