Particularly interesting however was the finding that there was no difference in the structural
relationship between POS and engagement across the two generational groupings. That is to say, the
influence of perceived organizational support on engagement is equally strong and significant for both
groups. Efforts to increase perceptions of organizational support should therefore have positive effects on
the engagement of both groups. This finding supports to the argument in the literature that generation
effects are not necessarily as valid as the popular press would have society believe (Deal at al., 2010).
Instead, there may be more of a presence of an age effect in this data than a stable and continuous
generation effect.