Four Models for Age/Work Policy Research

Levine, Martin

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“…At the same time, findings regarding the relationship between clergy work performance and age need to be seen in the wider context of other research concerned with work performance and age. Although several attempts have been made during the past fifty years to synthesise empirical findings in this area (McFarland 1943;Welford 1976;Baugher 1978;Waldman and Avolio 1986;McEvoy and Cascio 1989), the consensus remains that this is a particularly complex and difficult field to synthesise due to the range of populations studied, the diverse measures of performance and performance-related attitudes employed, the various age groupings utilised in analysis and the host of cultural and generational variables which may contaminate the observed relationships between age and performance (Levine 1980;Doering, Rhodes and Schuster 1983;Davies and Sparrow 1985;Avolio 1991).…”

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Ageing Anglican Clergy and Performance Indicators in the Rural Church, Compared with the Suburban Church

Francis

Lankshear

1993

Ageing and Society

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This study employs path analysis to examine the relationship between clergy age and certain quantitative indices of church life in two samples: a sample of 1,553 villages and rural communities, ranging in size from 251 to 1,250 inhabitants and a sample of 584 suburban parishes. The data indicate that clergy aged sixty or over working in rural parishes tend to have contact with a smaller number of active church members, as indicated by attendance on a normal Sunday, than younger clergy working within comparable rural parishes, although they maintain contact with the same number of nominal church members, as indicated by the electoral roll and festival communicants. Clergy aged sixty years or over working in suburban parishes, on the other hand, have contact with the same number of active church members as younger clergy working within comparable suburban parishes. These findings are discussed in the light of a growing body of research which suggests that changing patterns of rural ministry may be generating difficulties and stresses for clergy approaching the age of retirement.

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