ArticleJournal of business and psychology2021
Generations and Generational Differences: Debunking Myths in Organizational Science and Practice and Paving New Paths Forward.
Article in Journal of business and psychology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06495060 (The Correlation Between Psychological Capital, Intention to Leave, Work Job and Environment Satisfaction, and Political Skills Among Different Generations Nurses), which is not on this map. Cited by 20 papers.
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The Correlation Between Psychological Capital, Intention to Leave, Work Job and Environment Satisfaction, and Political Skills Among Different Generations Nurses
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Abstract
Talk about generations is everywhere and particularly so in organizational science and practice. Recognizing and exploring the ubiquity of generations is important, especially because evidence for their existence is, at best, scant. In this article, we aim to achieve two goals that are targeted at answering the broad question: "What accounts for the ubiquity of generations despite a lack of evidence for their existence and impact?" First, we explore and "bust" ten common myths about the science and practice of generations and generational differences. Second, with these debunked myths as a backdrop, we focus on two alternative and complementary frameworks-the social constructionist perspective and the lifespan development perspective-with promise for changing the way we think about age, aging, and generations at work. We argue that the social constructionist perspective offers important opportunities for understanding the persistence and pervasiveness of generations and that, as an alternative to studying generations, the lifespan perspective represents a better model for understanding how age operates and development unfolds at work. Overall, we urge stakeholders in organizational science and practice (e.g., students, researchers, consultants, managers) to adopt more nuanced perspectives grounded in these models, rather than a generational perspective, to understand the influence of age and aging at work.
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