Maintaining a focus on opportunities at work: The interplay between age, job complexity, and the use of selection, optimization, and compensation strategies
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In: Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 32, No. 2, 02.2011, p. 291-318.
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T1 - Maintaining a focus on opportunities at work
T2 - The interplay between age, job complexity, and the use of selection, optimization, and compensation strategies
AU - Zacher, Hannes
AU - Frese, Michael
PY - 2011/2
Y1 - 2011/2
N2 - The concept of focus on opportunities describes how many new goals, options, and possibilities employees believe to have in their personal future at work. This study investigated the specific and shared effects of age, job complexity, and the use of successful aging strategies called selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC) in predicting focus on opportunities. Results of data collected from 133 employees of one company (mean age=38 years, SD=13, range 16-65 years) showed that age was negatively, and job complexity and use of SOC strategies were positively related to focus on opportunities. In addition, older employees in high-complexity jobs and older employees in low-complexity jobs with high use of SOC strategies were better able to maintain a focus on opportunities than older employees in low-complexity jobs with low use of SOC strategies.
AB - The concept of focus on opportunities describes how many new goals, options, and possibilities employees believe to have in their personal future at work. This study investigated the specific and shared effects of age, job complexity, and the use of successful aging strategies called selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC) in predicting focus on opportunities. Results of data collected from 133 employees of one company (mean age=38 years, SD=13, range 16-65 years) showed that age was negatively, and job complexity and use of SOC strategies were positively related to focus on opportunities. In addition, older employees in high-complexity jobs and older employees in low-complexity jobs with high use of SOC strategies were better able to maintain a focus on opportunities than older employees in low-complexity jobs with low use of SOC strategies.
KW - Business psychology
KW - job complexity
KW - focus on opportunities
KW - Entrepreneurship
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78751611434&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/job.683
DO - 10.1002/job.683
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 32
SP - 291
EP - 318
JO - Journal of Organizational Behavior
JF - Journal of Organizational Behavior
SN - 0894-3796
IS - 2
ER -