Abstract

DOURADO, Amanda Dias  and  ZAMBRONI-DE-SOUZA, Paulo César. Motivation and work: investigation on the experience of young people at first employment. Psicol. Conoc. Soc. [online]. 2020, vol.10, n.2, pp.5-20.  Epub Aug 01, 2020. ISSN 1688-7026.  https://doi.org/10.26864/pcs.v10.n2.1.

The high rates of unemployment and turnover in companies together with the new job configurations present challenges for the insertion of the young person in the professional scope. In this scenario, motivation can help you get a promising career. Therefore, the focus of the present study was to investigate the motivation of the young people to start working compared to the motivation to remain at work. It is a qualitative study with a non-probabilistic sample for convenience that was composed of 30 young people between the ages of 18 and 23, who are in the first job as a Young Apprentice as an administrative assistant of a Company-School Integration Center located in Paraíba, Brazil. For data collection, two instruments were used: a questionnaire containing socio-demographic data and a questionnaire guided by the objects of the study in question, analyzed by thematic and categorical content analysis technique. It was possible to realize that for the majority of the young people their initial motivation to work is in the remuneration, experience and help the family and their motivation to continue working consisted in achieving independence and professional success. These results relate to the motivational theory of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and have implications for the attention of the authorities on the healthy insertion of the young person in the labor market, considering that the first professional steps have effects in the career of this generation and in the future of the companies and the country.

Keywords : Motivation; young apprentice; job.

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