Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically study the effect of employee involvement in the workplace on job satisfaction for millennial workers in Colombia. Design/methodology/approach Data were obtained from a sample of 2103 millennial employees working in 11 companies of different sectors located in the five main cities of Colombia. Ordered probit models were estimated to study the effect of employee involvement on job satisfaction, in general, and how different forms of participative decision making in the workplace produce different impacts on individual satisfaction with objective and intrinsic aspects of the job, in particular. Findings The empirical results show that, for millennial workers, there is a positive link between employee involvement and job satisfaction. Moreover, there is a higher positive impact on job satisfaction when millennial workers participate in decisions on general aspects of the company than when they participate in specific decisions such as those concerning teamwork or main tasks at work. Another interesting result is that millennial workers attach high importance to intrinsic aspects of their jobs (such as the possibility to use their knowledge in the work), which may improve their satisfaction in a higher participative environment. Research limitations/implications The results can present bias due to the use of self-report data from millennial workers. Another potential limitation is the cross-sectional nature of the data, which does not control for unobserved individual effects. The study may be extended to other developing countries to help identify results more precisely for different contexts. Originality/value The value lies in exploring the relationship between employee involvement and job satisfaction for millennial workers in the context of a developing country. The paper simultaneously considers different types of employee involvement and estimates their effects on different facets of job satisfaction.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a study on the antecedents of turnover intentions (TOI) of millennial Colombian employees. A theoretical model in which positive work-family interaction, professional respect (PR) and meaning predicted TOI is simultaneously tested in Millennials and Xers. Design/methodology/approach The authors used a multigroup structural equation approach to analyze the data provided by 2,157 Millennials and 279 Xers. Participants work in 11 companies from five Colombian cities. City, age, sex, tenure and wage are included as control variables to respond to some limitations of previous research and isolate the effects of age cohorts. Findings The results show differences in terms of some of the variables under study. Further, the effects of positive work-family interaction and PR on TOI were different from one age cohort to the other. The influence of meaning on the outcome variable was equal in Millennials and Xers but resulted positive. Research limitations/implications The authors studied an under-researched population, used rigorous analytical procedures to simultaneously test the hypotheses across generations, analyzed data from a large sample size and control for confounding variables identified by researchers inquiring generational differences at the workplace. By these means, the study contributes to literature on millennial employees and age diversity. Originality/value By studying an under-reseach population and using suitable analytical techniques, the study contributes to literature on millennial employees and age diversity.

Objetivos: Identificar los estudios relacionados con la salud de los trabajadores de la agroindustria de América Latina desde el año 1980 hasta 2018 y las evidencias de la relación entre precariedad laboral y salud.Metodología: Revisión sistemática resumida de la literatura disponible en Web of Science (incluye Scielo) y Scopus Lilacs-Bireme (Portal Regional de la Biblioteca Virtual de la Salud) con ayuda de un gestor de referencias bibliográficas, un programa para visualizar redes bibliométricas y un programa de análisis de datos cualitativos.Resultados: La búsqueda reportó 2056 registros publicados entre 1978 y 2018, alrededor de las categorías “agroindustria” y “salud”. Fueron excluidos 1795 artículos, por no ajustarse al objetivo de la revisión. Los 261 artículos incluidos fueron sometidos a un análisis estadístico y 30 fueron escogidos para su revisión cualitativa. Se identificó una tendencia creciente de artículos, siendo Brasil el país con mayor cantidad en la región, dado el auge de la agroindustria en las últimas décadas. La caña de azúcar es el subsector más estudiado y, desde un punto de vista de la problemática, los efectos más dañinos son por la exposición a agrotóxicos, y los más frecuentes, por condiciones ergonómicas que generan problemas osteomusculares.Conclusiones: En el periodo analizado predomina un enfoque biomédico; sin embargo, la literatura se viene enriqueciendo con aportes de las ciencias sociales. Esto ha permitido avanzar en la problematización de las condiciones de salud-enfermedad de los trabajadores de la agroindustria, a la luz de los cambios en los modelos productivos y el aumento de la precariedad laboral en el sector.

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to show how a group of Colombian millennials perceive different aspects of working life and how their ideas about job satisfaction, professional expectations and levels of autonomy are related to contemporary demands about inclusion, diversity, equity, autonomy and control.Design/methodology/approachWith this objective, 167 semi-structured interviews were conducted with millennials who work at 10 Colombian companies from the manufacturing and service sectors, located in the five main cities of the country. With a qualitative approach, in the interviews, the research team used a strategy inspired by the technique of generating visual structures associated with grounded theory.FindingsIt is concluded that new generations of Colombian workers know of the importance of rewards and autonomy in work and are more critical and less passive in the face of unhealthy working conditions. At the same time, their conduct and speeches are the consequence of the characteristics of the Colombian labour market. The document responds to the need to deepen the debates on welfare and happiness in organizations and to include the demands of millennials in the reflective and political horizon of the ideas of healthy employment and decent work. In practice, this article seeks to demystify ideas about millennials in Colombia and critically contribute to reflection on intergenerational relations in organizations and salary and welfare models. As a Latin American case, it is an original contribution that avoids the common places and the frivolity with which the insertion of the new generations into the working world has been analysed.Practical implicationsIn practice, this paper seeks to demystify ideas about millennials in Colombia and critically contribute to reflection on intergenerational relations in organizations and salary and welfare models.Originality/valueAs a Latin American case, it is an original contribution that avoids the common places and the frivolity with which the insertion of the new generations into the working world has been analysed.