Abstract
This research aims to show that the implementation of intergenerational salience at a social level can affect the work context, particularly in hospitals. Participants were 50 voluntary nurses (25 juniors, 25 seniors) working in French hospitals. RepMut Methodology, based on the theories of social categorization and self-categorization, highlights the mutual representations of group relations and allows measurement of the biases of perception and evaluation. The results support the idea that junior/senior self-categorization plays an important role in structuring work relations. Both groups express in-group homogeneity, but also contrast and values consistent with their social group membership. We discuss the benefit of differentiating the levels of analysis in order to acquire an understanding of diversity and its associated effects.
Highlights
RESUMEN Esta investigación considera el impacto social de las diferencias intergeneracionales en contexto laboral hospitalario
The junior target group is rated higher by the junior source group than by the senior source group (F (1.48) = 6.18, p < 0.016). These results provide additional evidence that junior and senior nurses activate the social categorization process through the biases of perception and evaluation
There is an assimilation effect, junior and senior nurses perceived the members of their own group as more similar than the members of the other group
Summary
RESUMEN Esta investigación considera el impacto social de las diferencias intergeneracionales en contexto laboral hospitalario. In a context where aging societies in Western Europe are confronting the world of work to new challenges (Fagnani & Letablier, 2011; Meier, 2008), maintaining seniors in the labour market has become a new and major social issue in France. A clear progression is to be noted: in 2004, 37.8% of the seniors of active age were employed. On the labour market, the two generations are placed in a relation of competition by the cultural, economic, and social context (Jégu, Lacassagne, & Castel, 2015, 2015). This competitive situation could lead to discrimination. It seems necessary to study seniors and juniors’ relationship and their mutual social representation of it, to restore an intergenerational dialogue and, the intergenerational balance
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