Commentary: The Research-Practice Gap – Diversity Predicts Performance: Stories about generation differences are ubiquitous in the diversity domain, with executives and managers being warned that they must change their organizational cultures, policies and practices if they hope to attract and retain younger workers. In today’s column, we discuss two recent studies that address these questions and offer some surprising answers.
Kali Trzesniewski (University of Western Ontario) and her colleague Brent Donnellan (Michigan State University) analyzed data obtained from high school seniors annually from 1976 through 2006. Participants were randomly sampled; therefore, we can assume that the sample (almost half a million students) is representative of American high school seniors.
