A Curtin University professor has been awarded the largest Chinese Research Council Grant in social sciences for his research into managing Chinese Gen X and Gen Y\u2019s in the workplace.<\/p>\n
Professor Jie Shen from Curtin Business School\u2019s School of Management, and his Chinese collaborator Professor Ningyu Tang, have received $350,000 for their project \u201cDiversity management of generations in the workplace\u201d.<\/p>\n
Over five years, Professor Shen and Professor Tang will investigate how the difference in values and attitudes toward life, work and society amongst young Chinese people has changed over time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cYounger generations have shown strikingly different values and attitudes toward life, work and society, which have a significant impact on their work behaviour,\u201d Professor Shen said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn China, management faces the same if not more serious challenges as their Western counterparts.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore importantly, managers face challenges in managing Gen X and Y who will soon replace them, but are different from previous generations.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Professor Shen said he regarded the lack of literature and research as a key problem to managing workplace behaviour.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe current literature is limited and ambiguous about the best management of younger generations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He said traditional management of young people was often ineffective because it regarded diversity to be a major problem.<\/p>\n
Contacts:<\/strong><\/p>\n Professor Jie Shen, Human Resources Management, Curtin University Karys Nella, Public Relations, Curtin University A Curtin University professor has been awarded the largest Chinese Research Council Grant in social sciences for his research into managing Chinese Gen X and Gen Y\u2019s in the workplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17809","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-research"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":null,"photographer":null,"media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Curtin University"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17809"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Mob: 0430 355 248, Email: Jie.Shen@curtin.edu.au<\/a>
\nWeb: http:\/\/curtin.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Tel: 08 9266 3353, Mobile: 0401103018, Email: karys.nella@curtin.edu.au<\/a>
\nWeb: http:\/\/curtin.edu.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"