Perfis de carreira da geração Y / Career Profiles of the Generation Y

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

28/09/2012

RESUMO

Generation is presented as an emergent theme in people management in Brazil and other countries. Demographic changes related to the aging population and to the reduction of the birth rate sustain the interest by the subject. The new generation, or Generation Y, that is now getting into the workplace notes a different reality compared to the past generations. Globalization, new technologies and the competitiveness increase caused changes in the psychological work contract, which left a model of life time job, for a model of independence and autonomy, where the career actor is responsible for one\ s career management and for one\ s development. These changes brought up the need of a review of career concept and the developing theories that considered aspects related to mobility, the search for the meaning of work and the search for psychological success, such as, the boundaryless career and the protean career. Considering the novelty of both themes and the need for empirical national studies, this dissertation had the objective of identifying the career profile of Generation Y members. The career profile groups the subjects according to the presence of protean career attitudes, represented by two dimensions: self-directed career management and valuesdriven; and the presence of boundaryless career attitudes, represented also by two dimensions: psychological mobility and physical mobility. The research is descriptive, quantitative and the data collection was made through an electronic survey that was based on scales validated in the U.S.A. and Brazil. The sample is non-probabilistic and intentional and was composed by 2.376 young respondents. Exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis techniques were used to validate the career attitudes scale, cluster analysis was processed to identify the career profiles and the chi-square was used to analyze the relation between career attitudes and demographic variables and career profile and demographic variables. The results of the factor analysis and the Cronbach\ s alpha affirm the validity and reliability of the instrument. Eight career profiles were identified and five of them were described in a previous theoretical study. The three new profiles were described and named. The predominant profile in the sample was the \"Protean Career Architect\" that has high presence of the career attitudes investigated. The profile with smaller representation in the sample was the \"Lost\" that has low presence of the modern career attitudes. These results confirm the generation and career theories that describe that the young people socializing in the modern work environment adapt their career profile to this reality. The conclusion was that the new careers are a reality for the young Brazilians. Nevertheless, there is a small portion of people with low career attitudes in several dimensions, indicating that it is a movement and cannot be considered as a fact for all the people that participated in the study. This dissertation is an invitation for researchers to develop new empirical studies about generations and careers and its impact on people management in Brazilian organizations. The space and need of new researches is clearly present.

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administração de carreiras career generation y gerações jovens youth

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