THE DYNAMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGING AND JOB PERFORMANCE – A CASE STUDY
Abstract
Organizational psychologists are striving to
create global models that can explain and predict
organizational behaviour. In this quest, there have been
elaborated many meta-analyses that gather relevant
findings in order to create a conceptual framework of
understanding human performance. This paper presents
arguments for sustaining the curvilinear relationship
hypothesis that occur between aging and job
performance in an organizational context research.
Conclusions set up a new conceptualization of the
variable dynamic relationship inferences in Psychology.
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