Abstract Based on the characteristics of the four development stages of China’s human resources management since the reform and opening up as well as the achieving styles model and theory, this study explored and analyzed the characteristics of achieving styles and intergenerational differences between millennial employees and generation X employees from the perspective of organizational socialization theory and life course theory. By analyzing and comparing the data on Chinese employees’ achieving styles over the past two decades, this study found that, compared with generation X employees, the competitive behavior of post-80s and post-90s employees in China was gradually weakened, while their dependent and cooperative behaviors were strengthened. This study helps human resource managers to predict the behavioral orientation of millennial employees through the achieving styles model, as well as provides new perspectives and countermeasures for human resource managers to manage and motivate millennial employees.
ZHAO Yixuan,ZHAO Shuming,XU Yunfei. A Study of Intergenerational Differences of Chinese Employees Based on Two Years of Achieving Styles Data [J]. Chinese Journal of Management, 2019, 16(12): 1751-.
