In:
International Sociology, SAGE Publications, Vol. 35, No. 4 ( 2020-07), p. 393-414
Abstract:
This study examines generational differences in valuing the sources of motivation in workplace behaviour between millennials and older generations, with a view to assist managers in making employment decisions and maintaining multigenerational staff in the services sector. Based on systematically sampled data, the authors used Gagné et al.’s Multidimensional Work Motivational Scale (MWMS) to measure the different facets of work motivators alongside a three-item measure of employee overall work motivation (designed for this study) to address the hypotheses. Using structural equation modelling procedures to analyse the data, the authors found that four out of six motivators regress differently to overall work motivation. In other words, both extrinsic regulation–material and identified regulation are valued more by millennials compared to older generations, while extrinsic regulation–social and introjected regulation are valued less by millennials compared to older generations.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0268-5809
,
1461-7242
DOI:
10.1177/0268580920912970
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
2020
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1481123-6
detail.hit.zdb_id:
635273-X
SSG:
2,1
SSG:
3,4
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