Abstract
Most people joining companies nowadays belong to the so-called Millennial Generation (or millennials), born in the late 1980s and 1990s. Myriad surveys have tried to identify the defining characteristics of this group, but ultimately, the main preoccupation of HR managers is to attract and retain talent, and what interests them is whether millennials respond to certain types of incentives and whether they share the values of previous generations. Another important consideration for HR managers is how to integrate diverse generations so as to produce synergies from them.
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de Onzoño, S.I. (2016). The Managerial Lifecycle. In: Cosmopolitan Managers. IE Business Publishing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54909-9_3
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