Title: Antecedents and consequences of millennial engagement: evidence from IT business professionals

Authors: Muskan Khan; Rajni; Pragati Hemrajani; Neha Nagar

Addresses: Department of Management Studies (MBA), Galgotias College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, India ' School of Commerce and Management Studies, Garden City University, Bengaluru, India ' Institute of Business Management, GLA University, Mathura, India ' School of Business Management, Noida International University, Greater Noida, India

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between the antecedents, viz., meaningful work, prosocial motivation and work-life balance and the consequences, viz., organisational commitment and career commitment while keeping the millennial engagement as the intervening variable. The study intends to test the hypotheses using data from 202 employees working in the IT companies located in Delhi/NCR through a structured questionnaire using PLS-SEM. The findings from the survey of members of the IT Millennial Generation indicated that millennial engagement intervenes the relationship between meaningful work and organisational commitment and between meaningful work and career commitment. This exploratory research also highlights the significance of undertaking an enquiry on millennials in information technology organisations and, more broadly, on all the components that led them to inevitably take a job. Since the findings are based on limited millennial employees' responses, there is no universal claim for generalisation.

Keywords: millennial-gen Y; meaningful work; pro-social motivation; PSM; work-life balance; WLB; organisational commitment; career commitment; millennial engagement.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBG.2025.147961

International Journal of Business and Globalisation, 2025 Vol.40 No.4, pp.334 - 357

Received: 05 May 2022
Received in revised form: 10 May 2022
Accepted: 10 May 2022
Published online: 12 Aug 2025 *

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