OB and Leadership

2. • Job performance declines with increasing age.
• The workforce is aging.
• Older age has experience, judgment, a strong ethics and
commitment to quality.
• Older age lack flexibility & resistance to change.
• The older you get the less likely to quit job.
• Age is inversely related to absenteeism.
• Productivity declines with age.
• The relationship between age & job satisfaction is positive.

3. • Men or women performs well on jobs ??
• Women are more willing to conform to authority than
men.
• Men are more aggressive and more likely than women
to have expectation of success.
• Employee’s turnover rates are similar to those for men.
• The rate of absenteeism is higher in women than men.

4. Married employees have fewer
absences, undergo less turnover,
and are more satisfied with their
jobs than are their unmarried
coworkers.

5. • There is a positive relationship between
seniority and productivity.
• Seniority is negatively related to absenteeism.
• The longer a person is in a job, the less likely
he/she is to quit.
• tenure and satisfaction are positively related.

16. ….contd
 The specific intellectual or physical abilities
required for adequate job performance
depends on the ability requirements of the
jobs.
 For eg: airline pilots need strong spatial
visualization abilities, beach lifeguards need
both strong visualization abilities and body
coordination, senior executives need verbal
abilities, high-rise construction workers need
balance, etc.