@article{2017,title={The Generation R Emerged Through Transformation And The Dilemma Of Character Corrosion},abstractNode={The economic crisis of 2008 has triggered a transformation in educated workforce. This transformation has created the well-educated and performance-based Generation R, which does the work of three or four people at the same time without any changes in wages or titles. The reason for the formation of this generation, which can be described as a mutated form of Generation Y, is its concern about job security. This educated workforce, which wants to be employable, has been forced to adapt its personality to the dynamics that have occured with the change in working life. Personality, described as the process in which the individual adapts himself/herself to environmental changes, has forced the individual to transform into a professional personality, identified by working life. Increased emphasis on quality in working life, the view of employability and the competition among educated workforce have blurred the differences between generations in working life. In a pursuit to be employable, the generations have compelled to find a common ground in professional personality. Within this process gaps arise between the professional personality, created by the new dynamics of the working life and the personality of the employee. This process refers to the situation which is labeled as “corrosion of character” by Richard Sennett. The workforce, which is compelled to hide his/her identity, to masquerade false attitude and to express professional feelings, begins to contradict with his/her own personality. This study attempts to establish relationship between professional personality created by the change in working life and the corrosion of character. This study tries to establish a relationship between to the Generation R, that was created by tansformation , professional identity and corrosion of character, discussing the effects of new dynamics which are showing up in the working life that cause corrosion of character on the educated labour force. In this context, the purpose of this article is to identify the effects of the corrosion of character on labour life and to draw an inference on professional identity which emotionally dominates labour and creates anxiety of being employable in all generations involved in working life.},author={Duygu ÖZYILMAZ MİSİCAN},year={2017},journal={Journal of Academic Value Studies (JAVStudies)}}