Digitalization and demographic change represent two megatrends that impact organizations and workplaces around the globe. Rapid developments in information and communication
technology (ICT) are fundamentally changing the ways in which work is conducted. At the same time,
workforces are becoming increasingly older and age diverse. Integrating the model of workplace ICT
use and work design with socioemotional selectivity theory from the lifespan development literature,
we investigate employee age as a moderator of the indirect and total effects of ICT use for task and
social functions on self-rated task proficiency and job satisfaction. As potential mediators, we focus on
three job-related resources: job autonomy, team cohesion, and task significance. Data were collected
from 1761 employees at three measurement points across two months. The results showed that ICT
use for task and social functions were not significantly associated with job autonomy, team cohesion,
task significance, task proficiency, and job satisfaction, while controlling for baseline levels of these
mediator and outcome variables. Job autonomy was negatively related to task proficiency, and team
cohesion was positively related, whereas both job autonomy and team cohesion were positively
related to job satisfaction. Contrary to expectations, age did not moderate the indirect and total
effects of ICT use for task and social functions on task proficiency and job satisfaction. We discuss
the implications of our findings for future research and practice regarding ICT use and age in the
work context.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:88422 |
| Date | 04 December 2023 |
| Creators | Dietz, Carolin, Bauermann, Pauline, Zacher, Hannes |
| Publisher | MDPI |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 2673-8104, 10.3390/merits2030016 |
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