Supervisor-subordinate age dissimilarity and performance ratings: the buffering effects of supervisory relationship and practice.

Using 394 pairs of employees and their immediate supervisors working in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector in three northern European countries, this study examined the effect of workplace moderators on the link between relational demography and supervisor ratings of performance. Directional age differences between superior and subordinate (i.e.

Nurses' health, age and the wish to leave the profession--findings from the European NEXT-Study.

Background And Objectives: In many industrialised countries the number of workers with low health is expected to increase in the nursing profession. This will have implications for occupational health work in health care. The European NEXT-Study (www.