신세대 직장인의 특성에 관한 연구

New generation people who are well accustomed to information technology, have rich experience in abroad travelling, and get parents' enough support join companies and their number is bigger and bigger as time goes. This research does several focus group interviews and tests the new generation workers' major characteristics. Through several in-depth interviews, we concluded that new generation workers have a value that a self is the most precious (self-centered), reject authoritarian rules in the workplace without any reason (antiauthoritarianism), are vulnerable to critics(vulnerability), rapidly adapt new technology and change (adaptability), build broad network with friends and acquaintance as well as co-workers (broad network), and have big anxiety about their future and heavily depend on other people like parents, friends, and supervisors (anxiety). We did an empirical test on the characteristics of new generation workers with 2,276 samples. We found that self-centered and adaptability characteristics support our expectation. That is, new generation workers are more self-centered and adaptable than other generations. However, broad network and vulnerability hypotheses weren't supported. We can't test anxiety and antiauthoritarianism hypothesis because of measurement problem. We suggested several future researches such as HR systems about generation management influence on firm performance, and an diversity of generations impact on group creativity.