Factors of Work Motivation and Coexistence of Generations at the Workplace

Fero Martin () and Dokoupilová Lucie ()
Additional contact information
Fero Martin: Slovak University of Technology, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology, Department of Languages and Humanities, Ulica Jána Bottu 2781/25, 917 24Trnava, Slovak Republic
Dokoupilová Lucie: University of Ostrava, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Reální 5, 701 03Ostrava, Czech Republic

Research Papers Faculty of Materials Science and Technology Slovak University of Technology, 2019, vol. 27, issue s1, 15-24

Abstract: This paper focuses on the characteristics of the main challenges posed by the changes in demographic composition of labour market and requisite to adjust motivational programs to expectations of employees in industrial enterprises in Slovakia, but also to develop strategies to manage the cooperation between different generations. The paper describes the situation in Slovakia based on the analysis of data from quantitative research collected in 2018 on a sample of 534 employees in industrial enterprises. The empirical findings presented, which describe the differences between generations, focus mainly on the importance of work motivation factors and the level of achievement of these factors in correlation with the stated intention to change employment. Analysed data confirmed that relationships with colleagues are generally the most important work factor for all generations, but we found some significant differences between generations in work motivation items such as career advancement, personal growth, achievement, advantageous working hours and benefit to society.

Keywords: Quantitative research; employees of industrial enterprises; work motivation factors; coexistence of generations at workplace (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.2478/rput-2019-0037 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrs:repfms:v:27:y:2019:i:s1:p:15-24:n:3

DOI: 10.2478/rput-2019-0037

Access Statistics for this article

Research Papers Faculty of Materials Science and Technology Slovak University of Technology is currently edited by Kvetoslava Rešetová

More articles in Research Papers Faculty of Materials Science and Technology Slovak University of Technology from Sciendo
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().