The (mis)use of SD as age diversity measure Universiteit Antwerpen
The aging population trend and the associated growing share of older employees lead to high levels of workplace age diversity, which has inspired many researchers to examine the implications. In this paper, we show that the prevalent use of the standard deviation (SD) as age diversity measurement may hinder the field in unraveling the effects of age diversity. While SD is known as an operationalization of age diversity as separation – i.e., the ...