It is well researched and reported that the culture of a nation has a major impact on employees’ work related values, attitudes and expectations. The objective of this study was to investigate if western research on the generation gap applies equally to generational groups in Taiwan’s workplaces, specifically in the higher education sector and manufacturing industry. The research found that gro...

A comparison is made between the dynamics of steady state and generational genetic algorithms using the statistical mechanics approach developed by Pr ugel-Bennett, Shapiro and Rattray. It is shown that the loss of variance of the population under steady state selection | genetic drift | occurs at twice the rate of generational selection. By considering a simple ones counting problem with selec...

CONTEXT Many faculty members believe that students today differ from those in the past. This paper reviews the empirical evidence for generational changes among students and makes recommendations for classroom teaching based on these changes. Generational changes are rooted in shifts in culture and should be viewed as reflections of changes in society. METHODS This paper reviews findings from...

OBJECTIVE In the United States, Hispanic adolescents are at elevated risk for negative outcomes related to risky sexual behavior. To evaluate potential protective factors for this group, we examined the fit of the Hispanic Paradox for sexual behavior among high-risk youth and the moderating role of parent monitoring. METHOD We enrolled 323 justice-involved Hispanic youth (73% male; mean age 1...

This exploratory study describes decision making at end of life among Japanese American families. Using qualitative methods including a one-time, semistructured interview, 16 Japanese American family participants described their experiences with the death of 22 family members. A grounded theory analysis led to the development of a model of a process that reflected the influence of age-cohort ge...

intergenerational gap refers to the disturbance and crisis in the cultural sequence of generations, which leads to conflict in terms of values and norms between parents and children. until recently, this phenomenon has not been considered a serious issue in iranian society and the continuation of similar thought patterns through the generations has prevented the emergence of distance and variou...

This study uses a routines-based theoretical lens to examine time-based pacing of generational product innovation in the applications software industry. We develop a temporal routines model to explain the effect of time since previous innovation on generational product innovation. The model further suggests that organizational size moderates the time-pacing relationship. Employing event history...

Learning is widely documented across animal taxa but studies stringently scrutinizing the causes of constitutive or operational variation of learning among populations and individuals are scarce. The ability to learn is genetically determined and subject to constitutive variation while the performance in learning depends on the immediate circumstances and is subject to operational variation. We...