Präsentation bei European Academy of Management

Am 23.06. präsentiert Janny Klabuhn das Paper AGE DIVERSITY AND ITS EFFECTS ON TEAM PERFORMANCE (gemeinsam mit Kirsten Thommes) bei der European Academy of Management in Glasgow:

1799 - AGE DIVERSITY AND ITS EFFECTS ON TEAM PERFORMANCE

Authors : Janny Klabuhn - BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY COTTBUS-SENFTENBERG, Kirsten Thommes - BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY COTTBUS-SENFTENBERG

Friday, June 23, 2017 - Slot 8 (10:50 - 12:20)

TIC Building - Level 3 Conference Room 2

Many studies in HRM have been conducted on age diversity, although extant literature shows varying results. We argue that previous inconsistencies in results have arisen for two reasons. Firstly, there is a lack of clarity about the concept of age diversity with its specific types and conceptualizations. Secondly, in many research settings, age and tenure diversity have been intertwined. We propose that age diversity and tenure diversity should be treated separately, as they may play out differently with respect to team performance. We capture both – age and tenure diversity – as well as their interplay and argue that age separation and tenure variety are most likely to affect team performance in a routine task. We test our hypothesis using field data from a steel company. Our results show that age separation decreases performance while tenure variety increases performance. High levels of age separation suppress the benefits of tenure variety.

Keywords : Age diversity; tenure diversity; team outcome