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| Employee age and perceptions of work in self-managing and traditional work groups | | Author(s) | Bert Hayslip, Carolyn Miller, Michael M Beyerlein |
| Journal title | International Journal of Aging and Human Development, vol 42, no 4, 1996 |
| Pages | pp 291-312 |
| Keywords | Employees ; Conditions of employment ; Job satisfaction ; Employment of older people ; Social surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Self-managing work groups are a form of work design in which employees take responsibility for the group's tasks and have discretion over decisions affecting group performance. To explore the impact of age and work teams on job attitudes, data from 477 employees suggests that self-managed work group members differ from traditional job holders in their general perceived job satisfaction, perceived control by supervisors, and other dimensions of the work environment. While there was evidence of an age effect on attitudes toward supervisory control, there was no joint effect of age by work design on job attitudes, i.e. one's perceived general job satisfaction. Older employees in self-managed work groups were more affected by this form of work design in reporting more positive perceptions of their access to information essential to the performance of their work. These findings suggest that an "older" workforce should not be considered a barrier to implementing a work teams approach to job design. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970731222 A |
| Classmark | WK: WKA: WL5: GC: 3F: 7T |
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