Generational Difference in Work Values

Course Title: Success Strategies for the Hospitality and Service Industries
Course Number: M900
Full Name: Jackey
Assignment Title: Academic Writing and Presentation
Word Count: 1388

The article: Generational differences in work values: a study of hospitality management was conducted by the author to understand the structure of hospitality work values and its perception among 3 different generations of managers and supervisors (Chen, P., & Choi, Y., 2008).
In order to achieve this objective a survey was conducted of 398 managers and supervisors from hospitality organizations in the USA. The research identified 15 work values along with their hierarchical order. Based on it a four dimensional (comfort and security, professional growth, and work environment) work value structure shared by hospitality workforce and generational difference in work value of the hospitality industry were found (Chen, P., & Choi, Y., 2008).
The unique contributions of this research which can have wide application in human resources across different sectors of the hospitality industry (Chen, & Choi, 2008) are as follows: * The discovery of different priorities in the work values across three generation of hospitality manager. * The revelation of four underlying dimension of the structure of work values that represent the uniqueness of work values perceived by the hospitality managerial workforce. * The finding of generational difference in work values in personal growth and work environment and the generational preference shift.
The unique perspective of the research, the formal language used, the careful citation of sources and the presence of a reference list, makes this article a scholarly research.
In order to analyze the generational difference in work values among managers, the author has classified the 3 different generations as Baby Boomers (born between 1946 and 1964), Generation Xers (born between 1965 and 1977), and Millennials (born after

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