Grupos geracionais e o comprometimento organizacional : um estudo em uma empresa metalúrgica de Caxias do Sul

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine organizational commitment of employees at a metallurgical company in Caxias do Sul. This company in question is Cemar Legrand company belonging to Legrand Group. Was used to analyze a research tool to recognize the scientific community called "model of the three components of Allen and Meyer (1997)," model that characterizes the organizational commitment in their affective, instrumental and normative dimensions, and the questionnaire was applied in a sample of 311 employees. This analysis has also been expanded in order to analyze organizational commitment by this group of employees through the theory of generations (Generation Veterans, Generation Baby Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y), this theory of generations, has its origin in the theory of generational Strauss and Howe (1991) where the authors define it in every century there are four different generations and each generation behaves according to the characteristics of each generational period, as well as by the events of his time. This investigation demonstrates that there is a good employee commitment to the company and was not found differences between the dimensions of commitment for the four generations surveyed.