Características predominantes dos alunos de ciências contábeis da FACE/UFGD em consonância com as prerrogativas teóricas sobre gerações

Abstract

The society includes the presence of four generations coexisting in the diverse social media: the Veterans, the Baby Boomers, the Generation X and the Generation Y. The shock among these generations has raised the need to know more about each one of them, in order to alleviate the existing conflicts. In such context, the present review aimed to study the main theoretical characteristics of the current generations and to confront them with the behavior of the sample analyzed, in order to identify the predominance of such theoretical prerogatives to it. Therefore, a questionnaire was applied to FACE / UFGD Accounting Sciences undergraduate course students, and respondents represented 41.4% of the studied population. The data were categorized and tabulated in the Excel software, in order to make its reading more comprehensible to analyze. The research findings indicated that just as it mentions the theory, age is not enough to categorize a certain group of people to a particular generation. Adopting only the criterion chronological age, the analyzed sample belongs to generation Y, since they are between 17 and 37 years old, as the profile of the respondents indicated. However, subjecting this sample to the questioning about several characteristics of the four generations, it strongly presented behavioral traces not only of its category by age, but also Boomers, Veterans and X aspects. Thus, the analyzed group can be categorized as belonging predominantly to the Generation Y, by chronological age and most of the Y characteristics are compatible, but by all the predominant characteristics analysis, the sample can also be classified as belonging to Generation X, to Veterans, and to a lesser extent to Baby Boomers.