Abstract
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the relationship of career anchors with three aspects: the millennials’ professional skills, the millennials’ awareness of the replacement of jobs with new technologies and the technological stress in the millennials’ working environment. Design/methodology/approach The responses of 200 questionnaires were analyzed using descriptive and variance analysis techniques. Findings Among the three hypotheses raised, two were confirmed, showing that these young people recognize the development of professional skills through new technologies, but are not highly sensitive to the stress associated with technological innovations. Originality/value The paper contributes to a recent debate, which emphasizes the impact of the application of new technologies on the nature of study and employment levels.
Highlights
Current discussions on the topic of “career” are permeated by growing concerns regarding the transformations the work has undergone over time
Such changes are driven by recent technological innovations that increasingly alter the nature of professional activities, technical and routine, as well as intellectual and creativity-dependent (Autor & Price, 2013; Barley, Bechly, & Milliken, 2017; Frey & Osborne, 2013)
Despite the evidence found by these authors, workers in Brazil, in general, are still not concerned about the fact that technological innovations may cause the replacement of their jobs by machines (Trevisan, Veloso, Silva, & Dutra, 2016; Veloso et al, 2018)
Summary
Current discussions on the topic of “career” are permeated by growing concerns regarding the transformations the work has undergone over time. Despite the evidence found by these authors, workers in Brazil, in general, are still not concerned about the fact that technological innovations may cause the replacement of their jobs by machines (Trevisan, Veloso, Silva, & Dutra, 2016; Veloso et al, 2018) In this scenario, it is important to understand how much people’s role has changed, especially in certain service settings. In the current technological context, there is a constant need for reinvention and acquisition of new professional skills, requiring an increasing ability to play a variety of roles within the organization The observation of this reasoning allows the assumption that, depending on personal attitudes, represented by career anchors, technological stress may present different intensities, according to the fourth hypothesis of this study: H3.
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