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In extracting significance from the mixed methods approach employed to comprehend the behaviours and habits of millennials in the process of knowledge transfer inside a corporation, the research had to dissect the elements, allowing a perspective concerning the Hofstede’s dimensions within this group (Hofstede, 1980). It was clear after distributing and compiling figures from the questionnaire to see a considerable distance in term of power distance and individualism between the younger generation and the older counterpart. PDI was meaningfully less severe, although pale with the more significant distance in term of IDV; it was unreasonable not to observe a mutation of the values throughout time and a definite shift in the cluster figures. This led to a series of interviews inside a Chinese SME using inquiries directed at management, engineers, and people involved in the knowledge transfer procedure at different levels. Using triangulation technique, which resulted in a clearer perspective of the possible behaviours and attitudes of all generations implicated in the process and the development of these activities inside the organization.

Assembling all those components was essential to provide a wider evaluation and allowing the possibilities to draw conclusions and new avenues to be explored in the context reviewed by this dissertation. Some preceding research had observed comparable specific phenomenon composing with the transformation of the Chinese millennials cultural dimensions and the effect on knowledge transfer inside a corporation. Having a limited number of conducive literature to support the direction this study explored many possibilities and attempted to avoid providing explicit answer to a situation still recently...

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...ward less restraint with authority (Hershatter and Epstein, 2010). Chinese millennials emerged in the era of the one child policy (Cao, 2009) materializing with the concentration of the attention by the parents on their single youngster enhancing the altruistic attitude of the kids (Schullery, 2013). The principal objective of this study was not to understand the dynamic of the Chinese family throughout time, but to demonstrate the possible evolution of the cultural dimensions. In providing possible explanation for this phenomenon it could only direct the reflection toward probable avenues and reinforced the solidity of the outcome raised by the quantitative methods. With respectively 37.7 points distance for individualism dimension IDV score and 15.5 points distance in PDI it was unavoidable to realize a mutation of the values and attitude of the recent generation.