A Study on the Factors that Affect Millennials' Job Involvement

Abstract

In existing generational research, millennials are generally described to have a low level of job involvement. However, there is still little agreement on how to classify generations, which can be regarded as an artificial concept. Therefore, describing a specific generation with a fixed characteristic increases the possibility of committing overgeneralization errors. Because significant individual differences can exist between employees classified as belonging to the same generation, this study investigated whether individual differences actually appear in millennials' job involvement. It was found that individual differences do exist to an extent similar to other variables, so whether individual-level factors can explain the variation was examined. Differences in millennials' job involvement could be significantly explained by LMXSC and person-job fit but not core self-evaluation. Finally, theoretical and practical implications of the findings and suggestions for subsequent studies are proposed.