Integrating the lifespan perspectives on job design and creativity/innovation, the purpose of this paper is to examine the moderating role of chronological age in the relationship between cognitive job demands (i.e. job complexity and job innovation requirements) and individual innovative work behavior (IWB).,Multilevel regression analyses are employed to analyze survey data of 336 employee–supervisor dyads from 61 departments across three organizations.,Results demonstrate that age was a significant moderator of the cognitive job demands-IWB relationship. Under the condition of high job complexity, younger employees outperformed their older counterparts. Conversely, older employees attained the same level of IWB as younger colleagues when more job innovation requirements were placed upon them.,IWB needs to be stimulated following different paths and by making job design decisions with regards to cognitive job demands that are dependent on employee age.,Empirical evidence has been provided to support the lifespan perspective on job design, with a special focus given to the cognitive job demands–IWB relationship.

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年龄敏感型创新工作行为的工作设计前提

结合工作设计和创造力/创新的生命周期观点，本文的目的是检验时间顺序年龄在认知工作需求（即工作复杂性和工作创新需求）与个人创新工作行为（IWB）之间的关系中的调节作用。 。，采用多层次回归分析来分析来自三个组织的61个部门的336名员工-主管的调查数据。结果表明，年龄是认知工作需求与IWB关系的重要调节器。在高度复杂的工作条件下，年轻员工的表现要好于老员工。相反，当对员工提出更多工作创新要求时，年长员工达到的IWB水平与年轻同事相同。