Expectations of french generation Y students regarding the professional life and organizational environment of work

Abstract

Nowadays, companies and organizations have to adapt themselves in function of changes and evolutions of our society. People who start to work today belong to a new generation which has new expectations, goals and which requires new adapted “management methods”. The generation arriving at workplaces called Generation Y has aspects, features and expectations sometimes differing from the ones of the previous generations, currently present in the professional environment. The Generation Y people are born between the beginning of 1980s and middle of 1990s. The arrival of this new generation the professional life, might induct new styles of management and new work organization within the companies. A key for the success for companies in a near future will be to understand as best as possible their “new” employees, in order to adapt the management. The main goal of this thesis is to understand and highlight the French Generation Y students’ visions and expectations regarding the professional life and oraganizational environement of work.