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New hire on-boarding in Russian companies: differences of cognitive and social-psychological attitudes across three generations
This paper presents the results of empirical research of the interaction between career motivation, self-monitoring and generational differences. The authors analyzed, cognitive and social-psychological patterns of three generations’ full-time newcomers from two Russian companies (n=142): Baby Boomers (1946-1964), Generation X (1965-1983), Generation Y (1984 or later). Career anchors and self-monitoring were compared across groups through analysis of variance, Student’s t-test and factor analysis. This research shows that Baby Boomers and Generation X have more adaptable characteristics toward achieving organizational socialization. The special attention should be devoted to the generation Y that is characterized by the most nontraditional social attitudes about organizational environment and, in fact, is in coherence with the stage of their professional and career development