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Age Diversity and Team Effectiveness

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Increasing age diversity in work groups due to demographic changes in recent decades raises the question of whether age diversity benefits or harms teamwork.

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This research was supported by multiple grants from the German Research Foundation (WE 1504/8-1; WE 1504/8-2; WE 1504/8-3; SCHM 851/1-1; SCHM 851/1-2; SCHM 851/1-3).

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  1. Work and Organizational Psychology, Leibniz-Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

    Birgit Claudia Ries, Stefan Diestel & Klaus-Helmut Schmidt

  2. Institute of Work-, Organizational- and Social Psychology, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Meir Shemla, Susanne Christina Liebermann, Franziska Jungmann & Jürgen Wegge

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Ries, B.C. et al. (2013). Age Diversity and Team Effectiveness. 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_5

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