The moderating effects of job control and selection, optimization, and compensation strategies on the age-work ability relationship

Journal of Organizational Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 607-628

  Weigl, Matthias ^a   Müller, Andreas ^b   Hornung, Severin ^c   Zacher, Hannes ^d   Angerer, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age; Job control; Selection, optimization, compensation; Work ability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879462338     PISSN: 08943796     EISSN: 10991379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/job.1810     Document Type: Article

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