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      The relationship of age to ten dimensions of job performance.

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          Previous reviews of the literature on the relationship between age and job performance have largely focused on core task performance but have paid much less attention to other job behaviors that also contribute to productivity. The current study provides an expanded meta-analysis on the relationship between age and job performance that includes 10 dimensions of job performance: core task performance, creativity, performance in training programs, organizational citizenship behaviors, safety performance, general counterproductive work behaviors, workplace aggression, on-the-job substance use, tardiness, and absenteeism. Results show that although age was largely unrelated to core task performance, creativity, and performance in training programs, it demonstrated stronger relationships with the other 7 performance dimensions. Results also highlight that the relationships of age with core task performance and with counterproductive work behaviors are curvilinear in nature and that several sample characteristics and data collection characteristics moderate age-performance relationships. The article concludes with a discussion of key research design issues that may further knowledge about the age-performance relationship in the future.

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          Journal
          J Appl Psychol
          The Journal of applied psychology
          American Psychological Association (APA)
          0021-9010
          0021-9010
          Mar 2008
          : 93
          : 2
          Affiliations
          [1 ] School of Business and Economics, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong. tng@business.hku.hk
          Article
          2008-02855-011
          10.1037/0021-9010.93.2.392
          18361640
          3f53999d-c881-47be-a805-468c81638f3e
          Copyright 2008 APA
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