This study examines generational differences in valuing the sources of motivation in workplace behaviour between millennials and older generations, with a view to assist managers in making employment decisions and maintaining multigenerational staff in the services sector. Based on systematically sampled data, the authors used Gagné et al.’s Multidimensional Work Motivational Scale (MWMS) to measure the different facets of work motivators alongside a three-item measure of employee overall work motivation (designed for this study) to address the hypotheses. Using structural equation modelling procedures to analyse the data, the authors found that four out of six motivators regress differently to overall work motivation. In other words, both extrinsic regulation–material and identified regulation are valued more by millennials compared to older generations, while extrinsic regulation–social and introjected regulation are valued less by millennials compared to older generations.

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工作动机的轮回：千禧一代与老一代

本研究考察了千禧一代和老一代在评估工作场所行为动机来源方面的代际差异，以期帮助管理人员做出雇佣决策并在服务业中维持多代员工。基于系统抽样的数据，作者使用 Gagné 等人的多维工作动机量表 (MWMS) 来衡量工作动机的不同方面以及员工整体工作动机的三项衡量标准（专为本研究设计），以解决假设。作者使用结构方程建模程序来分析数据，发现六分之四的动机对整体工作动机的回归不同。换句话说，