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How do biographical traits of individuals affect organizational performance? To study the organization behavior, that is to study the people who form the organization. The success of an organization rests on the characteristics of its people. Successful managers can observe the employees' behavior to understand their individual characteristics, which helps to improve the employees' performance. Therefore, the performance of employees is directly related to their biographical characteristics and abilities. These factors affect employees' interaction with others and reaction to various situations in the workplace. Then how these characteristics affect organizational performance? To learn about this, we should first know what biographical characteristics are. Biographical characteristics are personal characteristics-such as age, gender, and marital status-that are objective and easily obtained from personnel records. Let's take a look at the first characteristic-age. The issue about age and performance is quite controversial. When we consider this aspect, the thought that aged-old workers have lower level of...

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