Reducing Organizational Politics in Performance Appraisal: The Role of Coaching Leaders for Age-Diverse Employees.

We examined whether a supervisor's coaching leadership style predicts the perception of organizational politics in performance appraisal ( OPPA) reported by the collaborators. Additionally, we drew on social cognition and motivational life-span development theories to hypothesize age-related differences in perceived OPPA and its link with the coaching leadership style. Using hierarchical linear modeling ( HLM) on a sample of 576 employees and 112 leaders, we found that coaching leaders are perceived as less manipulative in their performance ratings, especially by older employees. This article includes a discussion of the implications these results have for performance management of an age-diverse workforce. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]