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The relationship between age and job performance evaluations for entry‐level professionals
Author(s) -
Saks Alan M.,
Waldman David A.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of organizational behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.938
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1099-1379
pISSN - 0894-3796
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1379(199807)19:4<409::aid-job842>3.0.co;2-6
Subject(s) - operationalization , psychology , entry level , job performance , social psychology , public accounting , work (physics) , demographic economics , applied psychology , management , job satisfaction , medical education , economics , medicine , engineering , philosophy , audit , epistemology , mechanical engineering
This study examined the relationship between age and job performance evaluations for newcomers recently hired into entry‐level positions in public accounting firms. We predicted and found a negative relationship between age and job performance evaluations. This relationship was eliminated after controlling for undergraduate grade average and prior work experience, operationalized as the number of jobs that a newcomer had previously held. Results are discussed in terms of the possibility of negative age effects in entry‐level positions and the potential reasons for such findings. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.