“印记感”、形象期望及人生发展阶段对员工代际知识转移意愿的影响

摘要

If organizations can promote older employees (senior employees) transfer their knowledge accumulated in the workplace to younger ones (junior ones),which is called intergenerational knowledge transfer (IGKT) in this paper,organization amnesia will be prevented,and up-to-date knowledge will be created.Based on the generativity theory and socioemotional selectivity theory,and the survey of 121 older employees who are older than 35 years old and staying in current organization for more than 3 years,this study analyzes the effects of symbolic immortality,image expectation and life development stage on IGKT intention of the older employees.The results show that,at the middle stage of adulthood,symbolic immortality and image expectation are positively associated with employees' IGKT intention,and image expectation can strength the effect of symbolic immortality on employees' IGKT intention.However,at the later stage of adulthood,symbolic immortality is not significantly associated with IGKT intention,older employees concern image expectation more.Compared with the employees who are at the middle stage of adulthood,the positive effect of image expectation on the employees who are at the later stage of adulthood is stronger.This study enriches IGKT theory,while expanding the application scope and the theoretical connotation of generativity theory.In addition,this study can give guidance to the organization managers to conduct IGKT.%将年长员工(俗称老员工)在工作中积累的经验和知识转移给年轻员工(俗称新员工)这样一种代际知识转移,既能防止组织遗忘,又能实现新知识的创造.本文基于传承理论和社会情绪选择理论,以121名组织员工(年龄在35岁以上、工作年限在3年以上的员工)为对象,对“印记感”、形象期望及人生发展阶段与员工代际知识转移意愿的关系进行研究.研究结果表明,在成年中期阶段,“印记感”、形象期望与员工的代际知识转移意愿正相关,形象期望正向调节了“印记感”与员工代际知识转移意愿之间的关系.在成年后期阶段,“印记感”对员工代际知识转移意愿的作用不显著,年长员工更加关心的是形象期望;形象期望对成年后期阶段员工代际知识转移意愿的促进作用大于对成年中期阶段员工的作用.本研究丰富了代际知识转移理论,拓展了传承理论的应用及内涵.另外,也为代际知识转移的实践工作提供了一定指导.