What aspect of generations has been investigated in the past decade? Has anyone investigated the difference in their knowledge sharing or their competences or the attitude or how different generations can work successfully in an organization? What challenges does a manager face when the employees are from different generations?
Often their classification regarding birth and names are also different (veterans, baby boomers/younger boomers, generation X, generation Y, Z / millennials etc.). Why is that?
Hi,
Raul Tormos just defended a PhD with some wonderful applictations of cohort studies. The problem is that, to my best knowledge, there is no APC approach used or even tested for cross-cultural studies. There is Yang and Land's Cross-Classified Multilevel Model, which could be specified with an additional level for culture. They have recently released a book http://lib.freescienceengineering.org/view.php?id=1018978 but there are critical papers on their approach forthcoming. We are currently applying it to Schwartz values. There is also a model of Malcom Fairbrother using time variant contextual covariates (we will use it for moral attitudes).
To my best knowledge there are any internationally valid/comparable classifications for cohorts. And even if, their defining element and reactions to period effects are most likely to differ (see Realo & Dobewall, 2011 on life satisfaction). van Herk and Poortinga (2012) proposed five historical cohorts for Europe which work well for graphical analyses.
But I would love to learn that there is cross-cultural research separating age, period and cohort effects in cross-cultural research:-)
What interests me is the differences revealed in knowledge sharing, competences, competencies, attitude, work attitude etc. based on generational differences (belonging to different generation). Have you read anything dealing with these, intestigating these or compering these? I would love to read any publication related to these or to get to know your opinion on this topic.