The Effect of Age, Departmental Experience and Prior Rater Experience on Performance in Assessment Center Exercises

Abstract

The article discusses two studies which investigated the effect of age, departmental experience and prior rater experience on performance in assessment center exercises. The first study found that age does significantly affect assessment center performance within the same middle management level. The second study indicate that viewing a group problem, having access to variable definitions and actually rating and ranking the performance of others did not lead to better performance on a similar group problem.