Maintaining a focus on opportunities at work: The interplay between age, job complexity, and the use of selection, optimization, and compensation strategies

By H. Zacher, Michael Frese. 2011

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Subfields: Demography, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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Citations in the corpus

Goals and motivation related to work in later adulthood: An organizing framework (2013, methodology): “Research derived from selective optimization and compensation theory (SOC; Baltes & Baltes, 1990) has also focused on factors influencing work strategies and their effects on job performance and attitudes among older workers (Wiese, Freund, & Baltes, 2002; Zacher & Frese, 2011).”
Differential effects of task variety and skill variety on burnout and turnover intentions for older and younger workers (2013, background): “…Grant, Fried, & Juillerat, 2010; Morgeson & Humphrey, 2006), only a few studies have examined differential age effects of job characteristics (e.g., de Lange et al., 2010; Shultz, Wang, Crimmins, & Fisher, 2010; Zacher & Frese, 2011; Zaniboni, Truxillo, Fraccaroli, McCune, & Bertolino, 2011).”
A lifespan perspective on job design: Fitting the job and the worker to promote job satisfaction, engagement, and performance (2012, methodology): “SOC has been used as the theoretical argument for the link between age and job characteristics (e.g., Zacher & Frese, 2011), as different job characteristics will differentially help workers adapt to age-related changes.”
Focus on opportunities as a mediator of the relationship between business owners' age and venture growth (2012, unknown): “The concept of focus on opportunities captures how many new goals, plans, options, and opportunities people believe to have in their personal future (Cate and John, 2007; Zacher and Frese, 2009, 2011).”
A meta-analysis on promotion- and prevention-focused job crafting (2018, background): “Prevention-focused job crafting puts employees’ focus on limitations and keeps employees’ focus off opportunities in the workplace, which impairs performance (Zacher & Frese, 2011; Zacher, Heusner, Schmitz, Zwierzanska, & Frese, 2010).”
The selection, optimization, and compensation model in the work context: A systematic review and meta-analysis of two decades of research (2016, unknown): “A SOC training could cover both theoretical and practical issues related to SOC strategy use to increase employees ’ awareness of its bene ﬁ ts and to provide them with a knowledge base and practice opportunities for the use of the strategies in their daily work (Zacher & Frese, 2011).”