Generational Diversity at Government Workforce: An Assessment towards Job Involvement and Organizational Commitment

Abstract

Diversity is a widespread issue in today’s workplace, aside from gender and racial diversity, generational diversity has grown as an important matter that should be understood and managed. Employees in different generations differ in terms of behavioral characteristics and work-related values which are likely to influence their engagement and attachment with various aspects of work. Specifically, the job involvement and organizational commitment of government workforce in relation to their generation is the focus of the study. Researchers assessed if there is a significant difference on the level of job involvement and organizational commitment among different generations. Findings of this study may contribute to increase the understanding of agencies about their employees in the context of generational differences to facilitate appropriate strategies and practices to enhance human resource’s positive organizational attitudes. The respondents of this study were the government employees in various agencies in Nueva Ecija and a questionnaire-based survey was designed to assess the aforementioned objective. A total of 48 government employees, 12 participants for each four generations took the survey assessing their degree of job involvement and organizational commitment. Findings show that when it comes to job involvement, younger generations tend to be more involved compared to older generations. While the level of organizational commitment tends to be higher in the older generation, specifically in Generation X. The implications of the results were discussed and future research and actions were suggested.