Because Work is Changing: A New Paradigm for Intergenerational Workplace Knowledge Sharing

The world of work has changed dramatically in the past 20 years, and this has important implications for a variety of individual, group, and organizational phenomena. Two areas that may be particularly impacted by such changes are generations at work and intergenerational knowledge sharing. Unfortunately, conceptual approaches have not kept up with these changes in work and organizations. Therefore, the objectives of this paper are as follows: 1) review current thinking about intergenerational workplace knowledge sharing, 2) discuss the changing nature of work and its impact on knowledge sharing, 3) present a new intergenerational perspective on knowledge sharing, and 4) propose directions for future research and understanding of intergenerational workplace knowledge sharing.