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Age Differences in Motivation and Stress at Work

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Age-Differentiated Work Systems

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Age differences at work not only go along with differences in job-related abilities and expertise, but also with diverging attitudes and experiences at work.

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This research was supported by three grants from the German Research Foundation to the first author (HE 2745/11-1; HE 2745/11-3 and HE 2745/11-4).

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    Guido Hertel, Markus Thielgen, Cornelia Rauschenbach, Anna Grube & Stefan Krumm

  2. Organisational Psychology, Jacobs University Bremen, Bremen, Germany

    Christian Stamov-Roßnagel

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Hertel, G., Thielgen, M., Rauschenbach, C., Grube, A., Stamov-Roßnagel, C., Krumm, S. (2013). Age Differences in Motivation and Stress at Work. In: Schlick, C., Frieling, E., Wegge, J. (eds) Age-Differentiated Work Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35057-3_6

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