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Author: Gast, Ilene F.
Resulting in 1 citation.
1. Cucina, Jeffrey M.
Byle, Kevin A.
Martin, Nicholas R.
Peyton, Sharron T.
Gast, Ilene F.
Generational Differences in Workplace Attitudes and Job Satisfaction: Lack of Sizable Differences across Cohorts
Journal of Managerial Psychology 33,3 (2018): 246-264.
Also: https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/JMP-03-2017-0115
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Emerald
Keyword(s): Intergenerational Patterns/Transmission; Job Satisfaction; Work Attitudes

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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the presence of generational differences in items measuring workplace attitudes (e.g. job satisfaction, employee engagement).

Design/methodology/approach: Data from two empirical studies were used; the first study examined generational differences in large sample, multi-organizational administrations of an employee survey at both the item and general-factor levels. The second study compared job satisfaction ratings between parents and their children from a large nationwide longitudinal survey.

Findings: Although statistically significant, most generational differences in Study 1 did not meet established cutoffs for a medium effect size. Type II error was ruled out given the large power. In Study 2, generational differences again failed to reach Cohen’s cutoff for a medium effect size. Across both studies, over 98 percent of the variance in workplace attitudes lies within groups, as opposed to between groups, and the distributions of scores on these variables overlap by over 79 percent

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Cucina, Jeffrey M., Kevin A. Byle, Nicholas R. Martin, Sharron T. Peyton and Ilene F. Gast. "Generational Differences in Workplace Attitudes and Job Satisfaction: Lack of Sizable Differences across Cohorts." Journal of Managerial Psychology 33,3 (2018): 246-264.