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Cross-Generational Valuing among Peer Academic Librarians
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Munde, Gail; Coonin, Bryna – College & Research Libraries, 2015
This study investigated the skills, knowledge, abilities or dispositions that are most valued and respected by academic librarians, and determined how these qualities might, or might not, be associated with generational membership. Other variables included institutional classification, career length, years since first professional degree, and…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Librarians, Academic Libraries, Investigations
Leader Developmental Readiness of Generation Y in the Training Industry
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Garrigue, Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Members of Generation Y in the training and development industry will be required to assume leadership roles as Baby Boomers retire, yet little empirical research exists regarding how best to prepare them for leadership. The purpose of this study was to examine differences in leader developmental readiness between generational cohorts in the…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Training, Leadership Training, Baby Boomers
When Generational Employees Leave Higher Education, What Do We Lose, and What Do They Leave Behind?
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Pena, Andrew M., Sr. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Given the state of the economy, lack of competitive jobs and decreasing number of voluntary retirements, by the year 2018 many institutions of higher education may see five generations working side by side. This study examined three of the four generations working at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP): Baby Boomers, who are those employees…
Descriptors: Colleges, Employees, Employee Attitudes, Generational Differences
Work Values across Generations
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Hansen, Jo-Ida C.; Leuty, Melanie E. – Journal of Career Assessment, 2012
Mainstream publication discussions of differences in generational cohorts in the workplace suggest that individuals of more recent generations, such as Generation X and Y, have different work values than do individuals of the Silent and Baby Boom generations. Although extant research suggests that age may influence work values, few of the…
Descriptors: Work Ethic, Generational Differences, Cohort Analysis, Vocational Education
Parental Age and Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorders in a Finnish National Birth Cohort
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Lampi, Katja M.; Hinkka-Yli-Salomäki, Susanna; Lehti, Venla; Helenius, Hans; Gissler, Mika; Brown, Alan S.; Sourander, Andre – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
Aim of the study was to examine the associations between parental age and autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Data were based on the FIPS-A (Finnish Prenatal Study of Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders), a case-control study with a total of 4,713 cases with childhood autism (n = 1,132), Asperger's syndrome (n = 1,785) or other pervasive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cohort Analysis, Risk, Autism
Digital Immigrants Fare Better than Digital Natives due to Social Reliance
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Ransdell, Sarah; Kent, Brianna; Gaillard-Kenney, Sandrine; Long, John – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
Older adult cohorts show greater external locus of control (LOC), a marker of social reliance, compared to younger cohorts. In the present study, American college students from 27 to 61 years of age participated in online courses in a graduate health science programme. Four birth-year cohorts were included: "millennials", born in 1982+;…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Baby Boomers, Older Adults, Cognitive Ability