Cultural openness, interpersonal justice, and job satisfaction among Millennials and seniors: evidence from Japanese target employees following M&A
This study compares the perceptions of Millennials with those of senior employees in a cross border acquisition. Literature on Millennials argues that since they are open-minded, it can be assumed they would enjoy greater job satisfaction after their firm is acquired by another company. We invest...
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| description | This study compares the perceptions of Millennials with those of senior employees in a cross border acquisition.
Literature on Millennials argues that since they are open-minded, it can be assumed they would enjoy greater job satisfaction after their firm is acquired by another company. We investigated how employees perceived interpersonal justice and its influence on job satisfaction,
and to what extent employees’ culturally open mindedness
mediated this relationship. The results showed that employees, regardless of age, enjoyed greater job satisfaction after an acquisition when they perceived that they were being treated fairly by the new management. This study also showed that senior employees, not the Millennials
of the target firm were more culturally open-minded. However, culturally open minded seniors were the less job satisfied. Implications for human resource practices are discussed. |
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| spelling | upm-369432015-08-21T03:51:49Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/36943/ Cultural openness, interpersonal justice, and job satisfaction among Millennials and seniors: evidence from Japanese target employees following M&A Bebenroth, Ralf Ismail, Maimunah This study compares the perceptions of Millennials with those of senior employees in a cross border acquisition. Literature on Millennials argues that since they are open-minded, it can be assumed they would enjoy greater job satisfaction after their firm is acquired by another company. We investigated how employees perceived interpersonal justice and its influence on job satisfaction, and to what extent employees’ culturally open mindedness mediated this relationship. The results showed that employees, regardless of age, enjoyed greater job satisfaction after an acquisition when they perceived that they were being treated fairly by the new management. This study also showed that senior employees, not the Millennials of the target firm were more culturally open-minded. However, culturally open minded seniors were the less job satisfied. Implications for human resource practices are discussed. Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration, Kobe University 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/36943/1/Cultural%20openness.pdf Bebenroth, Ralf and Ismail, Maimunah (2014) Cultural openness, interpersonal justice, and job satisfaction among Millennials and seniors: evidence from Japanese target employees following M&A. Journal of Economics and Business Administration, 210 (6). pp. 29-47. ISSN 0387-3129 |
| spellingShingle | Bebenroth, Ralf Ismail, Maimunah Cultural openness, interpersonal justice, and job satisfaction among Millennials and seniors: evidence from Japanese target employees following M&A |
| title | Cultural openness, interpersonal justice, and job satisfaction among Millennials and seniors: evidence from Japanese target employees following M&A |
| title_full | Cultural openness, interpersonal justice, and job satisfaction among Millennials and seniors: evidence from Japanese target employees following M&A |
| title_fullStr | Cultural openness, interpersonal justice, and job satisfaction among Millennials and seniors: evidence from Japanese target employees following M&A |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cultural openness, interpersonal justice, and job satisfaction among Millennials and seniors: evidence from Japanese target employees following M&A |
| title_short | Cultural openness, interpersonal justice, and job satisfaction among Millennials and seniors: evidence from Japanese target employees following M&A |
| title_sort | cultural openness, interpersonal justice, and job satisfaction among millennials and seniors: evidence from japanese target employees following m&a |
| url | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/36943/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/36943/1/Cultural%20openness.pdf |