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JOURNAL OF YOUTH RESEARCHES
The Relationship between
Demographic Variables of Gen
X and Gen Y Students and
Organizational Citizenship
Behavior
Copyright © 2017
Republic of Turkey Ministry of Youth and Sports
Journal of Youth Researches • November 2017 • 5(13) • 109-126
ISSN 2147-8473
Received
| 23 September 2017
Accepted
| 09 October 2017
A N A LY S I S / R E S E A R C H
E X T E N D E D A B S T R A C T
*
Professor Dr., Anadolu University, Open Education Faculty Eskişehir,
** Ph.D. Student, Anadolu University Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Management and Organization Science, Eskişehir,
Hacer Şivil**
A. Barış Baraz*
Introduction
Human beings play such a crucial role to have a competitive advantage for organizations.
The term management got a scientific feature in 1900s, and this has increased the impor-
tance of human beings After the Industrial Revolution, Classical Approaches to Organiza-
tional Management (1880-1930) were put into practice. The pioneers namely Frederick E.
Taylor, Henry Fayol and Max Weber (respectively the Scientific Management Theory, Ad-
ministrative Management Theory, and Bureaucratic Management Theory), tried to figure
out some methods to get the most out of human power. These methods conceptualizing
human beings like a piece of machine became insufficient in time. Hawthorne studies
