Research On Effect Of Work Values And Organizational Commitment On Job Performance Of Millennial Employees

At this stage,millennial employees with strong innovative ability and learning capacity has been beginning to become the enterprise backbone and an important force in promoting the development of enterprises and society.Because of the difference of the political,economic,social and cultural backgrounds,there are significant differences between millennial employees and the older generation in demand,behavioral characteristics,values,etc.Generational differences in work values increases the complexity of enterprise management,such as conflicts reflected in organization management,low levels of organizational commitment,high turnover rates and so on.Managers generally agreed that managing millennial employees was difficult.what's more,with the arrival of the aging society,demographic bonus disappears and "labor shortage" has gradually become an urgent problem for many enterprises.To attract and retain millennial employees is of great significance for the sustainable development of the enterprise,therefor,a systematic study on millennial employees is particularly important.Work values influence the career choice of millennial employees,willingness to work and work attitude,thereby affecting the organizational commitment and job performance.How do managers manage the multiple values of millennial employees to reduce the negative impact of generational differences? How do managers promote levels of organizational commitment,reduce turnover and improve work performance? What is the impact mechanism that work values of millennial employees act on their organizational commitment and job performance? These are the questions that this thesis will answer.Through the study of literature,this thesis built a concept model about millennial employees' work values,organizational commitment and job performance,and collected data through the questionnaire,and applied SPSS19.0 to analyzing the data and validating assumptions.The main conclusion of this thesis can be included as follows:Firstly,the work values of millennial employees in descending order as follow: long-term development,interpersonal harmony,utility orientation,internal preference,innovation orientation.The score of emotional commitment is the highest,followed by normative commitment and continuous commitment is relatively low.Millennial employees have a higher task performance,contextual performance followed.Secondly,there are significant differences in aspects of age and marital status,while no significant difference exist in gender,education level,work experience,job status,nature of the firm.Thirdly,it confirms that the work values and organizational commitment are important factors to influence the job performance.There is significant positive correlation between work values and organizational commitment.There is significant positive correlation between organizational commitment and job performance.There is significant positive correlation between work values and job performance.Finally,the organizational commitment is a mediator variable between work values and job performance.Work values can influence directly the job performance;it can also influence indirectly the job performance through organizational commitment.The innovation of this thesis is building the relational model of work values,organizational commitment and job performance.It also introduces the organizational commitment as a mediating variable to study the effect of work values on job performance.