DIFFERENT GENERATIONS AND THE MANAGEMENT OF THEIR CAREERS: IMPORTANCE AND POTENTIALITY

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This paper proposes a debate about the importance of multi-generational conviviality on organizations and the potentiality of career management to attract and retain different generations. The presence of different generations on the work environment consists on an immutable reality. Differences between people always existed and team work, mainly when there is no integration and a propitious environment, independently of generational differences, make the environment proper to the eclosion of conflicts. The conflicts do not have to be necessarily destructive, the divergence of opinion might be beneficial for employees and organizations, as long as there is an appropriate management. Therefore, by means of politics and practices of people management it becomes necessary the awareness towards generations, attracting and retaining them, aiming for a good conviviality between the different generations. Career management practices may allow insertion, the good conviviality, and the retention different generations on the labor market.