People encounter intergenerational cooperation almost every day, both within the family and in the workplace. Intergenerational collaboration can be challenging as each generation has different characteristics and values that are specific to each generation, but this does not mean that these apply to all individuals within a generation. The aim of this Master's thesis is to present intergenerational collaboration in company X, the challenges they face when working together across generations and how they could further improve intergenerational collaboration. In the theoretical part, we look at the different generations and what characterises them. We then present intergenerational cooperation in the context of companies and what programs a company can use to improve cooperation, such as mentoring, coaching, intergenerational management. In the empirical part, we present the results of our research, which was carried out by interviewing employees of company X, namely how intergenerational cooperation takes place in the selected company and how knowledge is transferred between the different generations. The results show that intergenerational cooperation is present in the company, but still faces some challenges. The company promotes intergenerational cooperation, but employees would like to see more and different programs that would allow for better knowledge transfer and would help to improve cooperation even more.
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