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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In: Human Resource Management Journal, Vol. 28, No. 4, 16.11.2018, p. 605-620.
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T1 - Knowledge transfer in age-diverse coworker dyads in China and Germany
T2 - How and when do age-inclusive human resource practices have an effect?
AU - Burmeister, Anne
AU - van der Heijden, Beatrice
AU - Yang, Jie
AU - Deller, Jürgen
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2018 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
PY - 2018/11/16
Y1 - 2018/11/16
N2 - 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).
AB - 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).
KW - Business psychology
KW - age‐diversity climate
KW - age‐inclusive HR practices
KW - dyadic age difference
KW - knowledge receiving
KW - knowledge sharing
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U2 - 10.1111/1748-8583.12207
DO - 10.1111/1748-8583.12207
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85052953411
VL - 28
SP - 605
EP - 620
JO - Human Resource Management Journal
JF - Human Resource Management Journal
SN - 1748-8583
IS - 4
ER -