Co-operative Prospect for Generation Z in Revolution 4.0

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10.2991/assehr.k.201125.024How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Structural empowerment, co-operatives, generation characteristics, industrial revolution 4.0

Abstract

One of the most monumental effects of the industrial revolution 1.0 was the birth of the Rochdale British co-operative, the first modern co-operative worldwide. The industry continues to evolve, co-operatives continue to adapt, and the characteristics of the human generation continue to change. The Baby Boomers generation, generation X, generation Y, and generation Z experienced a change in the industrial revolution 4.0. However, no previous study has evaluated the perception of co-operative members with regards to how capable the co-operative structure is in empowering co-operative members based on the characteristics of the generation, despite the fact that this information is very important in the development of co-operatives today. This study aimed to determine the structural empowerment of co-operative members in terms of generation characteristics. Structural empowerment is the ability of individuals to use co-operative structures to achieve their goals. The co-operative structure referred to is the opportunity, information, support organizational resources, formal power, and informal power that can be utilized by members to develop themselves. To this end be conducted a survey by collecting data on the structural empowerment scale from 254 co-operative members; the measurement instrument was adapted from CWEQ-II. Data were analyzed using one-way ANOVA. The results showed that there were differences in the structural empowerment of co-operative members in terms of generation characteristics (F = 2844, P = 0.04). Generation Z had the highest mean (69.16), followed by generation X (66.66), generation Y (60.57), and the Baby Boomers (60.19). Therefore, it can be said that co-operatives have good prospects for generation Z in industrial revolution 4.0, although the number of co-operative members of this generation is fewer compared to that of generation X and Y.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hendrikus Pedro
AU  - Koentjoro
AU  - Sito Meiyanto
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/27
TI  - Co-operative Prospect for Generation Z in Revolution 4.0
BT  - Joint proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intervention and Applied Psychology (ICIAP 2019) and the 4th Universitas Indonesia Psychology Symposium for Undergraduate Research (UIPSUR 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 290
EP  - 300
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201125.024
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201125.024
ID  - Pedro2020
ER  -