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Balancing Work, Family, and Personal Life in the Mexican Context: The Future of Work for the “COVID-19 Generation”

In: The Future of Companies in the Face of a New Reality

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  • Germán Scalzo

    (Universidad Panamericana)

  • Antonia Terán-Bustamante

    (Universidad Panamericana)

  • Antonieta Martínez-Velasco

    (Universidad Panamericana)

Abstract

Intergenerational talent management—i.e., attracting and retaining employees across generations and with different motivations—is one of companies’ greatest challenges. The expectations that recent generations bring with them have pushed culture in the direction of work-family balance, which is now seen as a key tool for human resources departments in charge of creating support mechanisms to attract and retain the next generation of workers. This trend has been reinforced by the changes brought about in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Responding to this shift, and inspired by the challenges that our “new normal” posits, this chapter presents research results from a survey conducted in Mexico with respondents from generations Y and Z. The survey results offer important insight into how these generations perceive work-life balance, as well as the expectations that young Mexicans between the ages of 18 and 30 hold in terms of family and work.

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  • Germán Scalzo & Antonia Terán-Bustamante & Antonieta Martínez-Velasco, 2021. "Balancing Work, Family, and Personal Life in the Mexican Context: The Future of Work for the “COVID-19 Generation”," Springer Books, in: Griselda Dávila-Aragón & Salvador Rivas-Aceves (ed.), The Future of Companies in the Face of a New Reality, pages 109-129, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-16-2613-5_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-2613-5_6
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    Keywords

    Generations Y and Z; Human resource management; Mexico; Work-family balance;
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    JEL classification:

    • M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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