Employees of Generation Y – Their Profile Based on Research Results

Iwona Mendryk

Abstract


By 2025, representatives of Generation Y, the so-called Millennials, will have constituted 75% of the total workforce in the world. Numerous studies pertaining to the generation’s characteristics paint a picture of an exceptional generation, one which is troublesome to HR managers. Due to the emergence of several studies associated with Generation Y employees, frequently journalistic in nature, an attempt at the characterisation of the generation’s competence potential was made. The current paper presents results of self-reports of 634 Polish Generation Y employees.

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Generation Y; demography of Generation Y; competence potential of Generation Y; engagement of Generation Y employees; values of Generation Y employees

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/ijsr.2015.4.2.75
Date of publication: 2016-05-25 10:49:55
Date of submission: 2016-05-25 10:49:10


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