In the midst of an aging global workforce, organizations must develop a better understanding of how work design interacts with aging to influence worker well-being. Grounded in socioemotional selectivity theory, the present study assesses how the effects of flexible schedules on sick day use, subjective health perceptions, work-to-family conflict, affective commitment, and work engagement change with age. The study uses 3,623 observations from the Linked Personnel Panel, a federally collected and maintained data set consisting of three waves from 2013-2017 in Germany. Results show that flexible schedules have age-specific effects for some outcomes and age-neutral effects for others. Flexible schedules were related to lower sick day use and higher subjective health perceptions only among older workers and reduced work-to-family conflict only among middle-aged workers. Relationships with work engagement and affective commitment were more consistently positive across age. The results point to the importance of understanding age-specific policy effects in the face of workforce aging. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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工作生活中的灵活时间表：特定年龄对幸福感和工作的影响。

在全球劳动力老龄化的情况下，组织必须更好地了解工作设计如何与老龄化相互作用以影响员工福祉。本研究以社会情感选择性理论为基础，评估灵活的时间表对病假使用、主观健康观念、工作与家庭冲突、情感承诺和工作投入的影响如何随年龄变化。该研究使用了 Linked Personnel Panel 的 3,623 条观察结果，这是一个由联邦政府收集和维护的数据集，由 2013 年至 2017 年在德国的三波数据组成。结果表明，灵活的时间表对某些结果具有特定于年龄的影响，而对其他结果具有年龄中性影响。灵活的时间表仅与老年工人较少的病假使用和较高的主观健康观念有关，并且仅与中年工人之间的工作与家庭冲突减少有关。与工作投入和情感承诺的关系在不同年龄段更为一致。结果表明，面对劳动力老龄化，了解特定年龄政策影响的重要性。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。