Searching for A Stronger Generational Understanding than Just Age: A Multi-Country Analysis of Millennials’ Personal Values and Moral Reasoning

Weber, James; Urick, Michael J.

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“…Or, research could broaden to focus on other countries and the Gen Zs' data found there, such as in Ukraine (Khotynska‐Nor, 2022), or in Hong Kong (Snelgrove et al, 2021). This research could be further extended through the exploration of a global (multiple‐country) Gen Z sample, again much like the research investigating Millennials, to see if cultural or other geographic variations might influence Gen Zs' identity (Weber & Urick, 2021; Zaid et al, 2022). In addition, analyzing other demographic variables in terms of Gen Zs' VOP or use of PMR, such as students' political orientation, marital status, or academic major, may exhibit significant variations among Gen Zs as an influence on their ethical decision‐making processes.…”

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Assessing the value orientation preferences and the importance given to principled moral reasoning of Generation Zs: A cross‐generational comparison

Weber

2024

Business and Society Review

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Within the past few years, a new generation has joined the ranks of business managers or is preparing to become business managers: Generation Z (Gen Z), described as individuals born between 1995 and 2010. This paper has two aims: (1) to assess the Gen Z cohort framed by their value orientation preferences (VOP) and the importance given to principled moral reasoning (PMR) using values and cognitive moral reasoning theories and (2) to compare this information about the Gen Z cohort to prior generations. Using the Rokeach Value Survey and the Moral Reasoning Inventory, we uncovered support for our expectations that Gen Zs would have a balanced set of VOP—that is, similar preferences for a personal and a social value orientation and similar preferences for a competence and moral value orientation. Further, Gen Z preferences are unlike prior generations. The importance given to principled moral reasoning to resolve ethical dilemmas is lower than Baby Boomers and Gen Xers but surprisingly higher than Millennials as found in prior studies. Implications of these discoveries and suggestions for future research are presented.

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Assessing the value orientation preferences and the importance given to principled moral reasoning of Generation Zs: A cross‐generational comparison

Weber

2024

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“…Individuals classify values according to their importance into hierarchies showing certain value priorities that persist over time too. The hierarchy of values means that the individual may place more importance on a particular value (i.e., honesty or achievements) than other values (e.g., caring for family or broad-mindedness) (Weber & Urick, 2021). In addition, research shows that values play an important role both in choices determining personal behaviour (Arieli, Sagiv & Roccas, 2020a) and when assessing events or other persons.…”

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Leading Research Areas of Personal, Organizational Values and Their Congruence: A Bibliometric Analysis

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Foktas

2024

Management Theory and Studies for Rural Business and Infrastructure Development

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In recent decades, with the growing interest of researchers in personal and organizational values and their congruence, the number of areas of interest to researchers in this field of research is also increasing. However, due to the huge amount of data and the different methods applied, it becomes complicated to identify themes important for management science and predict promising directions for further research. Therefore, this study aims to reveal the most important thematic areas related to the field of research on personal and organisational values congruence. The research sample consisted of 33626 articles, of which 6527 articles corresponded to the field of personal values research; 27011, to the field of organizational values research; and 98, to the field of research on personal and organizational values congruence. The articles in the field of management science were searched for in The Web of Science Core Collection database, covering the period from 1995 to 2023. A qualitative research method was employed, performing a keyword co-occurrence analysis and drawing up maps of co-occurrence network of keywords. In the field of personal values, 7 themes were identified, among which the focus on leadership, competition, organizational value, and cultural context was most evident. The field of organizational values research consisted of 5 themes, where the researchers paid most attention to the areas related to organizational value, organizational culture and management. In the field of research on personal and organizational values congruence, 7 other themes were found with a predominant focus on originality value and work engagement. This study contributes to a greater understanding of the trends of research on personal and organizational values and their congruence in the field of management science and shows possible directions for further research.

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What Are the Leadership Competencies for the 21st Century? A Qualitative Study of French Millennials at an Elite Business School in France

Fotso

2024

Thunderbird Intl Bus Rev

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This study examines the impact of national culture on the perceived required leadership competencies for the 21st century among French millennials. To capture French millennial perception, the study relies on the qualitative research methodology and on semi‐structured interviews with a sample of 22 French graduate students born between 1996 and 1999 attending an elite business school in France. The findings of the research indicate that participants do share similar perspectives on leadership with other millennials around the world including the expectation for a collaborative leadership style, more human orientation, and global leadership competencies. However, they also distinguish themselves by expecting certain leadership competencies influenced by their national culture such as the need for an autocratic and coercive style, a hierarchical and legitimate approach to leadership, and the need for the leader to be charismatic. The findings of this study bring a new perspective to the generational cohort theory and show that the implicit leadership theory adds value to the study on generations and more specifically on millennials. The managerial implications are that organizations operating in France should adjust their human policies to the French millennials' perception and not have a global approach when hiring and managing elite business schools' graduates. Furthermore, it shows that an organization that implements a transformational leadership style will be more successful in attracting and retaining millennials. The main limitation of this research is that it is based on the view of millennials graduating from an elite business school in France and does not consider graduates from other fields or from other “grandes écoles”.

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Searching for A Stronger Generational Understanding than Just Age: A Multi-Country Analysis of Millennials’ Personal Values and Moral Reasoning

Cited by 7 publications

References 66 publications

Assessing the value orientation preferences and the importance given to principled moral reasoning of Generation Zs: A cross‐generational comparison

Assessing the value orientation preferences and the importance given to principled moral reasoning of Generation Zs: A cross‐generational comparison

Leading Research Areas of Personal, Organizational Values and Their Congruence: A Bibliometric Analysis

What Are the Leadership Competencies for the 21st Century? A Qualitative Study of French Millennials at an Elite Business School in France

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