Older workers and poor performance: Examining the association of age stereotypes with expected work performance quality.
We investigated how age‐based worker stereotypes correspond with attributes of expected work performance. Participants (N = 220) rated 86 stereotypical descriptors of older (e.g., ‘resistant to change’) and younger workers (e.g., ‘savvy with technology’). Each descriptor was rated on both the extent...
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| author | Petery, Gigi Wee, Serena Dunlop, Patrick Parker, Sharon |
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| description | We investigated how age‐based worker stereotypes correspond with attributes of expected work performance. Participants (N = 220) rated 86 stereotypical descriptors of older (e.g., ‘resistant to change’) and younger workers (e.g., ‘savvy with technology’). Each descriptor was rated on both the extent that it was a common stereotype about younger (vs. older) workers, and characteristic of good (vs. poor) expected work performance. Ratings revealed stereotypes that were strongly associated with both a worker age group and with work performance quality, offering an explanatory mechanism for how candidates’ ages might influence judgments around personnel selection. A table of the paired age/performance ratings is provided to encourage the development of less age‐biased recruitment and selection materials. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-812212022-10-07T00:51:20Z Older workers and poor performance: Examining the association of age stereotypes with expected work performance quality. Petery, Gigi Wee, Serena Dunlop, Patrick Parker, Sharon We investigated how age‐based worker stereotypes correspond with attributes of expected work performance. Participants (N = 220) rated 86 stereotypical descriptors of older (e.g., ‘resistant to change’) and younger workers (e.g., ‘savvy with technology’). Each descriptor was rated on both the extent that it was a common stereotype about younger (vs. older) workers, and characteristic of good (vs. poor) expected work performance. Ratings revealed stereotypes that were strongly associated with both a worker age group and with work performance quality, offering an explanatory mechanism for how candidates’ ages might influence judgments around personnel selection. A table of the paired age/performance ratings is provided to encourage the development of less age‐biased recruitment and selection materials. 2020 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81221 10.1111/ijsa.12309 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/CE170100005 Wiley-Blackwell fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Petery, Gigi Wee, Serena Dunlop, Patrick Parker, Sharon Older workers and poor performance: Examining the association of age stereotypes with expected work performance quality. |
| title | Older workers and poor performance: Examining the association of age stereotypes with expected work performance quality. |
| title_full | Older workers and poor performance: Examining the association of age stereotypes with expected work performance quality. |
| title_fullStr | Older workers and poor performance: Examining the association of age stereotypes with expected work performance quality. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Older workers and poor performance: Examining the association of age stereotypes with expected work performance quality. |
| title_short | Older workers and poor performance: Examining the association of age stereotypes with expected work performance quality. |
| title_sort | older workers and poor performance: examining the association of age stereotypes with expected work performance quality. |
| url | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/CE170100005 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81221 |