GENERATIONAL THEORIES AS A WAY OF UNDERSTANDING THE STRUCTURE OF WORK POTENTIAL

The subject of workplace generations is to attract the interest in academic and management sectors. In a context of renewal of populations of working age, the study of the behavior and relationship to work of different generations becomes particularly interesting, sometimes raising the question of ways of organizing work. International competition, globalization, the financing of companies and technological changes have led to unprecedented social change and the emergence of new types of workplace behavior. Indeed, the cohabitation of generations at work places new difficulties for the management of human resources for several reasons: divergent values and expectations, intergenerational cohabitation is longer, organizational management methods are increasingly unpredictable and the professional trajectory of individuals is no longer as linear as before.