Resumen de The role of work characteristics in enhancing older employees' performance: : evidence from a post-Soviet country

Bernadeta Gostautaite, Ilona Buciuniene

• This paper showcases the contextual development of age diversity in one post-Soviet country � Lithuania � and explores the theoretical grounding and empirical evidence of the role of work characteristics (work-scheduling autonomy (WSA), decision-making autonomy and social support) in the age�individual performance linkage. The individual performance was conceptualized in terms of task, adaptive and proactive performance. Based on empirical findings from multisource data (non-managerial employees and their direct supervisors), this study contributes to the existing literature by showing that high WSA and social support can buffer the negative age effect on performance and that the age�performance pattern depends on the performance criteria used and is not universal.