A Study of the Effect of Age on Employee Engagement
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52731/lbds.v004.249Keywords:
age effects, box plot, employee engagement, formal and informal organizations, job engagementAbstract
Stock market watchdogs in the U.S. and Japanese government have mandated that listed compa-nies disclose human capital in their corporate IR. Human capital includes employee engagement, which is considered important. Age effects on employee engagement are assumed, but have not yet been fully researched. In this study, we used employee engagement survey data from a sem-iconductor company to identify characteristics of each age group. It found that engagement scores were higher in the younger age groups and once dropped in the 30-39 age group, but that engage-ment scores increased as age groups increased. Based on interviews with HR executives from the data provider and previous research, we concluded that this change was reasonable.
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