Age, resistance to change, and job performance

Journal of Managerial Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 741-760

  Kunze, Florian ^a   Boehm, Stephan ^a   Bruch, Heike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Age discrimination; Individual behavior; Older workers; Organizational behavior; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888989395     PISSN: 02683946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/JMP-06-2013-0194     Document Type: Article

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