New Wrinkles in the Theory of Age: Demography, Norms, and Performance Ratings

Age seems to play an important role in a wide range of employee behaviors. One interpretation of this role is that it depends more on people's beliefs about age than on the ages themselves. Despite the significance of this distinction for human resource planning, it has received little attention in the organizational literature. This article proposes an explanation for socially generated age effects and presents an exploratory study that used data from an electric utility.

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The Academy of Management Journal. – 1988. – Vol. 31. – P. 309–337.