The Study Of Generational Development In Work Value

In order to exam the generational differences in work value and its effective mechanism on the work performance and mental health, the study that based on the systematic analysis of generational differences in work value and their impacts on organizational commitment, employer engagement, well-being and mental health, propose the deficiencies in the research field, and then put forward the overall framework. All the questions are studied respectively by means of the documentary analysis, logical approach, questionnaire survey, interviewing method, experiment, statistical method. The following conclusions are drawn below such condition:1、The Questionnaire of Work value of Chinese Employer consists of6dimensions: Intrinsic value, extrinsic reward relationship, freedom and leisure, status and prestige, altruism. The reliability and validity of the Questionnaire are acceptable. The content of The Questionnaire of Work value of Chinese Employer is much more comprehensive and industries-related. The samples involved in the Questionnaire have broad age range. So it can be effective in the examination of the work value among the ordinary Chinese employers.2、Intrinsic values and extrinsic rewards increase with the rise of the generations; While altruism value decrease with the generations. The factors of family and marriage and job position have no influence on the trend of the work value among generations. The two sample who were born in the city and the countryside shows different development tendency:as to the sample born in the city, their freedom and leisure value and altruism value decrease with generations; while intrinsic and extrinsic value of those born in the countryside increase with generations.3、The qualitative study demonstrates that there are undoubted differences among three generations; the differences mainly contribute to the time, however the age effects is also a kind of reasons; the main reasons of the generational conflict are the generational differences among altruism value and sole and rig scent value.4、Implicit and explicit work value belong to two different independent cognitive systems. The implicit work values of chinese employers are positive. There are no differences in the implicit work value between the Generation of Cultural Revolution and the Generation of Reform.5、As to the Generation of Liberation, only altruism value can predict organizational commitment(OC); as to the Generation of Cultural Revolution, altruism value, relationship, and intrinsic value can predict positively OC, while freedom and leisure and extrinsic reward can predict negatively,6、As to the Generations of Liberation and Reform, intrinsic and altruism values can positively predict Employer Engagement(EE), while freedom and leisure value can negatively predict EE. As to the Generations of Cultural Revolution, intrinsic and altruism value can positively predict EE, while freedom and leisure value and extrinsic reward can negatively predict EE.7、As to the Generations of Liberation, OC plays the partial mediating role between altruism value and EE. As to the Generations of Cultural Revolution, OC plays the partial mediating role between altruism and freedom and leisure value and EE, but plays entire mediating role between relationship and EE. As to the Generations of Reform, OC plays entire mediating role between altruism value and EE, and play the partial mediating role between freedom and leisure value and EE.8、As to the Generations of Liberation,, altruism value can significantly predict well-being; As to the Generations of Cultural Revolution, altruism value can predict well-being and mental health respectively; as to the Generations of Reform, altruism value and extrinsic reward can predict well-being and mental health respectively.9、As to the Generations of Liberation, well-being plays the mediating role between altruism value and mental health. As to the Generations of Cultural Revolution, well-being plays the mediating role between altruism and relationship value and mental health. As to the Generations of Reform, well-being plays mediating role between altruism value and extrinsic reward and mental health.