Generational Differences and how they Impact Human Resource Management

Cosgrove, Jack (2022) Generational Differences and how they Impact Human Resource Management. Masters thesis, Dublin, National College of Ireland.

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Abstract

Generations across the world have varying opinions, expectations and attitudes towards certain aspects of life. These differing opinions greatly impact the strategies and practices of Human Resource Management in terms of each generations attitudes towards technology, recruitment, training, authority, loyalty, authority, employee engagement and working with other generations. There are currently five generations in the workforce today which include the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y and Generation Z. This research paper aims to find out how the attitudes of each generation towards these factors and identify how human resource managers can adapt and therefore deal with these generational differences. The researcher researched and analysed these generational differences towards these practices through secondary sources such as journal articles, books and credible websites. This enabled the researcher to gain the knowledge on these differences and how they impact Human Resource Management. The researcher adopted a quantitative approach to their primary research with a survey. This survey had 63 participants across the generations and asked a series of questions of topics that would impact Human Resource Management. The data was then analysed through SPSS software in order to compare the data with the secondary research and draw conclusions to the research. The researcher found the generations have varying differences however they also have similarities across certain aspects of Human Resource Management. The researcher found that the older generations, the Silent Generation tend to have more similarities and these generations differ greatly from younger generations, Generation X, Y and Z. However, on certain topics older generations can have similarities with the younger generations and some of the younger generations can differ on some aspects of Human Resources also. From the primary and secondary research, the researcher states the implications and some recommendations that Human Resource managers can do in order to deal with the generational differences.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management > Human Resource Management > Diversity H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management > Human Resource Management
Divisions:	School of Business > Master of Arts in Human Resource Management
Depositing User:	Clara Chan
Date Deposited:	17 Nov 2022 17:11
Last Modified:	17 Nov 2022 17:11
URI:	https://norma.ncirl.ie/id/eprint/5862

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