Identifying Work preferences of Millennial Generation in Workplace by Using Meta-Synthesis

Investigating work expectations and preferences of Millennium Generation as a young generation of labor, provides an insight that facilitates the formation of Millennium’s appropriate attraction and maintenance policies for managers. Accordingly, the present study, by systematically reviewing the results of qualitative researches in this area, presented a list of work expectations of this generation and then determined the importance of them by using the Shannon entropy method. This research is descriptive in terms of purpose and is practical in terms of its type. The statistical population of the study consisted of 68 qualitative papers in which 21 cases were entered into meta-synthesis process by using the judgment method. In order to measure the agreement between the two raters, the Cohen's kappa coefficient was used and the CVI index was utilized to assess the validity of the results. Therefore, validity and reliability were confirmed. The results showed that respectively balance between work and life, the opportunity for professional development in work, the existence of a fun and enjoyable working environment, having flexible working hours, challenging job, teamwork, and supportive work environment , more salary and benefits and meaningful job are among the most important work expectations for millennial generation.