Overview
Thomas W. H. Ng is a professor at the School of Business and Economics, University of Hong Kong (Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong). He is a leading meta-analyst in organizational behavior, with major contributions on age and job performance, career success, and proactive work behaviors. Co-author with Daniel C. Feldman of the 2008 Journal of Applied Psychology meta-analysis covering ten performance dimensions and 380 empirical studies — the broadest quantitative review of the age–performance relationship to date.
Key Contributions / Features
- Led the ten-dimension meta-analysis showing that age is near-zero for core task performance but positively related to OCBs, safety, and attendance reliability, and negatively related to counterproductive behaviors and tardiness
- Documented curvilinear age–performance relationships: inverted-U for supervisor-rated task performance (peaking at 31–35; negative after 40, likely reflecting age bias); negative concave curve for counterproductive work behaviors (steepening after 40)
- Co-authored Ng, Eby, Sorensen, and Feldman (2005), a meta-analysis of objective and subjective career success predictors (Personnel Psychology, 58: 367–408)
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