Generational intelligence of Polish managers

The aim of the present article is the systemization of knowledge concerning generational intelligence and its role in management as well as the diagnosis of generational intelligence of Polish managers. Within the research the method of critical analysis of literature as well as the authors' own design of a questionnaire gauging the generational intelligence was utilized. The study, which was carried out on a sample of 200 representatives of upper and middle management staff, showed that the level of participants' generational intelligence is higher than average with significant variance of results in individual subscales. Respondents obtained high scores in subscales: "awareness of differences between generations and their acceptance" and "cooperation and knowledge sharing". At the same time they have problems connected to collaborating with people belonging to a younger age group which manifests itself as a relatively lower willingness to utilize knowledge possessed by that group of workers, a low comprehension level of vocabulary used by them as well as decreased understanding of the perspectives and attitudes of younger workers. This is further exacerbated with negative emotions experienced by managers in situations when someone younger than them can do things better.