Leaders of tomorrow: the rise of a generation in the Portuguese industry

• Autor(a) principal: Cunha, Samuel Pires da
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/18241
• topic: Leadership; Millennials; Management; Leader; Comportamento; Liderança; Gestão organizacional

This study aims to identify and characterize the main traits and behaviors presented in the Generation Y, most known as the Millennial generation, when taking leadership positions inside their organizations. After a broad review of the literature, two research questions were formulated to better describe the generation at study, being that if (1) Millennials are currently demonstrating leadership traits and behaviors in the workplace and (2) what leadership style is preferred by them. This research was based on an online survey applied to the Portuguese community, from 20 to 35 years old, degree educated and already employed in the public or private sector. The 12 question survey was communicated through the social network since it is the most important social tool for Millennials nowadays. The results demonstrated that leading is a natural competence for this generation, as they started from a very young age to work and interact with others, receiving constant feedback, and Transformational Leadership is the style that best characterize their actions. The study contributes to our theoretical knowledge upon Millennial leadership and highlights important information for leadership practices inside organizations.