Overview
Daniel C. Feldman is a professor at the Terry College of Business, University of Georgia (Athens, GA). A leading scholar in organizational behavior, career development, and the management of aging workers. His 1983 study with Brett on coping with new jobs is a foundational early-career reference, and his edited volume Work Careers: A Developmental Perspective (2002) covers career issues facing older workers. Co-author with Thomas W. H. Ng of the 2008 Journal of Applied Psychology ten-dimension age–job performance meta-analysis.
Key Contributions / Features
- Co-led the 380-study meta-analysis demonstrating that the age–performance relationship is highly dimension-specific: positive for citizenship behaviors, safety, and attendance reliability; near-zero for core tasks; negative for counterproductive behaviors
- Edited Work Careers: A Developmental Perspective (Jossey-Bass, 2002), which includes a chapter by Beehr and Bowling on career issues facing older workers
- Feldman and Brett (1983) study on how new hires and job changers cope with new jobs — foundational study on organizational newcomer dynamics, cited in the moderator discussion of org-tenure and age
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