Vecchio R P
Department of Management, University of Notre Dame, Indiana 46556.
Psychol Aging. 1993 Mar;8(1):112-9. doi: 10.1037//0882-7974.8.1.112.
In a study of the influence of differences in employee age and the age of the employee's immediate supervisor, an age-difference variable was created and used to test 4 competing sets of predictions for performance and attitudinal outcomes within a sample of 292 high school teachers. Analyses revealed that employees who were older than their supervisors (a) reported better working relations with their supervisors, (b) evaluated their supervisors more favorably, and (c) received ratings from their supervisors that were not less favorable than other employees. The results suggest that bias does not necessarily operate against employees who are older than their supervisors and that a relational approach that is based on attribute similarity-dissimilarity offers an additional source of systematic variance that can aid in explaining individual responses.
在一项关于员工年龄差异以及员工直属上级年龄对其影响的研究中，创建了一个年龄差异变量，并用于在292名高中教师的样本中测试4组相互竞争的关于绩效和态度结果的预测。分析表明，年龄比上级大的员工：（a）报告称与上级的工作关系更好；（b）对上级的评价更积极；（c）从上级那里得到的评价并不比其他员工差。结果表明，偏见不一定会针对年龄比上级大的员工，基于属性相似性 - 差异的关系方法提供了一个额外的系统方差来源，有助于解释个体反应。
