Knowledge transfer in age-diverse coworker dyads in China and Germany: How and when do age-inclusive human resource practices have an effect?

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Knowledge transfer between age-diverse employees is gaining importance because of demographic change. We took a relational perspective to examine the indirect effect of human resource practices on knowledge transfer through age-diversity climate in age-diverse coworker dyads and contextualised our model by testing country difference and dyadic age difference as moderators. We used data from 159 age-diverse coworker dyads from China and Germany to test our hypotheses. We found that perceived age-inclusive human resource practices were positively associated with knowledge sharing and receiving through age-diversity climate. However, we did not find support for our hypothesis that these indirect effects differed when comparing China and Germany as examples of collectivist and individualist countries. Furthermore, we did not identify the proposed moderating effects of dyadic age difference as the indirect effects of age-inclusive human resource practices were not significantly different for age-diverse coworker dyads in which dyadic age difference was high (vs. low).

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftHuman Resource Management Journal
Jahrgang28
Ausgabenummer4
Seiten (von - bis)605-620
Anzahl der Seiten16
ISSN1748-8583
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 16.11.2018

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China awarded to Jie Yang (no. 71762013).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd

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