Pub Date : 2019-09-30DOI: 10.1108/978-1-78973-491-120191016
Sebastiano Benasso, Valentina Cuzzocrea
Several contradictions emerge in the ways in which Generation Z in Italy is, on the one hand, represented in public arenas and common sense and, on the other, when we look to the issues they face in confronting the socio-economic structure around them. This chapter specifically situates these emerging representations within the socio-economic scenario Generation Z lives in. We do this by interrogating statistical data – mainly ISTAT and Instituto Toniolo dataset. The overall picture sees Generation Z as not sharply different from the Millennials: it is a generation for which some structural constraints have been revealed already, but in respect to which they will face sharper conditions. Overall, we argue that statistical sources suggest that Generation Z is less worried about its future than it could be. The impact of the relative protective shell in which young people of this age find themselves has a role in this: one that is very much embedded in Italian culture and tradition. We conclude the chapter by conveying the idea that current Generation Z seems to be living in a soap bubble. By this we mean that the protection they enjoy and the somewhat positiveness with which they look at their future are due to disappear once they are constrained to deal with their responsibility outside of the family protection, in private life and in the labour market. Therefore the bubble that we see is specifically a soap bubble, given that it is likely to dissolve itself soon.
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Pub Date : 2019-09-30DOI: 10.1108/978-1-78973-491-120191015
A. Bontekoning
Besides other facts about the Dutch Generation Z, the focus of this chapter of Generation Z research in the Netherlands is aimed on what their fresh updates are in aging Dutch organisations and institutions. Approximately 85 per cent of Dutch companies and institutions are aging spectacularly and will do so until 2035! In the coming decades, the oldest working generations will be the largest, and the younger ones the smallest. These aging organisations need the updates of the youngest generation to stay vital and in a good social, economic and ecological health. Successive generations form horizontal layers in every culture. They play a key role in the evolution of the culture of which they are a part. This can be seen as a natural function of every generation. However, this chapter is mainly about Generation Z and a little bit about the other Dutch generations at work.
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