Focus on opportunities as a mediator of the relationships between age, job complexity, and work performance.

Autor/inn/en	Zacher, Hannes; Heusner, Sandra; Schmitz, Michael; Zwierzanska, Monika M.; Frese, Michael
Titel	Focus on opportunities as a mediator of the relationships between age, job complexity, and work performance. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Fokus auf Chancen als Mittler der Beziehungen zwischen Alter, Job-Komplexität und Leistung am Arbeitsplatz.
Quelle	In: Journal of vocational behavior, 76 (2010) 3, S. 374-386Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0001-8791; 1095-9084
DOI	10.1016/j.jvb.2009.09.001
Schlagwörter	Lebensalter; Lebensperspektive; Arbeitsanforderung; Soziale Chance; Arbeitsleistung; Arbeitsplatzgestaltung
Abstract	"Focus on opportunities is a cognitive-motivational facet of occupational future time perspective that describes how many new goals, options, and possibilities individuals expect to have in their personal work-related futures. This study examined focus on opportunities as a mediator of the relationships between age and work performance and between job complexity and work performance. In addition, it was expected that job complexity buffers the negative relationship between age and focus on opportunities and weakens the negative indirect effect of age on work performance. Results of mediation, moderation, and moderated mediation analyses with data collected from 168 employees in 41 organizations (mean age = 40.22 years, SD = 10.43, range = 19 - 64 years) as well as 168 peers providing work performance ratings supported the assumptions. The findings suggest that future studies on the role of age for work design and performance should take employees' focus on opportunities into account." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: Befragung; empirisch; empirisch-quantitativ. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2010/4