Ready for the future? The impact of Gen Z work values on the Swedish financial industry

Sammanfattning: This thesis investigates how the work values of Swedish Gen Z business students align with the perceived values of the Swedish financial industry. Using a qualitative research method, interviews were conducted with ten business students and eight companies active in the financial industry. The interviews revealed that Gen Z places high importance on intrinsic and social values, and moderately high importance on leisure values such as work-life balance. With the exception of career advancement, extrinsic values were found to have lower importance to Gen Z. The person-organization fit framework was applied to analyze the fit between the work values of Gen Z and the financial industry. The interviewees perceived the industry as mainly relying on extrinsic values and having low work-life balance. Thus, we conclude that several of Gen Z students' work values are incongruent with the perceived values of the financial industry.