Intergenerational climate at higher education: validity of the Spanish version of the workplace intergenerational climate scale

An ageing workforce and the coexistence of different generations in the same work environment has garnered the interest of practitioners and theoreticians with regard to the climate and interactions that occur between these generations. Although there are various instruments that attempt to measure...

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Autores: Rodríguez Gómez, David, González Ramírez, Teresa
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2024
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositório:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/167318
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/167318
https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2024.1323104
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Reliability analysis
Factor analysis
Intergenerational climate
Intergenerational interaction
Generational relay
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Resumo:An ageing workforce and the coexistence of different generations in the same work environment has garnered the interest of practitioners and theoreticians with regard to the climate and interactions that occur between these generations. Although there are various instruments that attempt to measure the intergenerational climate in organizations, there are no studies that demonstrate the effectiveness of such instruments in the Spanish university context. This article presents the analysis of the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Workplace Intergenerational Climate Scale (WICS) adjusted to the specific context of higher education institutions and administered to a sample of 1,116 university teachers. After the analyses were carried out, an instrument with 16 items was obtained (4 less than the original questionnaire), and we can affirm that the resulting questionnaire is appropriate to measure the intergenerational climate among university teachers in the fields of teaching, research and management in the Spanish university context. However, more detailed, and individual analysis of each of the areas (i.e., teaching, research and management) would likely yield slightly different models but a better fit