Atitudes de carreira e diferenças geracionais: um estudo em empresas cearenses

Abstract

This research has as objective to study the protean and boundaryless career attitudes of employees of the generational groups Baby Boomers, X and Y. The relevance of this research is due to the context of changes in the globalized world that has brought the need of the repositioning of the concept of career and the development of new theories. Considering the need for national studies on both careers and generational differences, this study will provide greater knowledge to the scientific community and society in general To achieve the objective of this research, a survey research was conducted through a questionnaire that avail both attitudes of the boundaryless career, physical mobility and psychological mobility, and the two attitudes of the protean career, values-driven attitude and self-directed attitude. The sample, not probabilistic and intentional, was formed by 213 employees from two companies located in the state of Ceará. The results indicated moderate and strong presence of the attitudes inherent to the two career models. It was also identified that the three studied generations predominantly present the self-directedness psychological mobility attitudes. Finally, the analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed, which didn’t showed no significant statistics differences between the generational groups.