Managing demographic change and diversity in organizations: how feedback from coworkers moderates the relationship between age and innovative work behavior

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作者：
Stefan Schaffer
Eric Kearney
Sven C. Voelpel
Ralf Koester
机构：
[1] Jacobs University Bremen,Organizational Behavior & Human Resource Management
[2] GISMA Business School/Leibniz Universität Hannover,undefined
[3] GISMA Business School,undefined
来源：
Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft | 2012年 / 82卷 / Suppl 2期
关键词：
Age; Innovative work behavior; Demography; Diversity; Feedback; M10; M12;
D O I：
10.1007/s11573-011-0542-z
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摘要：
In a field study of 211 employees of a midsized German high-tech company, useful feedback from coworkers was examined as a moderator of the relationship between age and supervisor ratings of radical innovative work behavior. When employees perceived higher levels of useful feedback from their coworkers, the relationship between age and radical innovative work behavior followed an inverted U-shape. This inverted U-shaped relationship was decreasingly manifested as the level of perceived useful feedback from coworkers dropped. Given demographic change and the aging of the workforce of many organizations, this finding broadens the still fragmentary knowledge of the conditions under which aging is likely to have more or less positive effects on innovative work behavior. The authors discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these results on both the individual and the team level of analysis.
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