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This article presents the results of a research that aimed at identifying which organizational commitment component predominates among public service employees of generation Y in Brazilian federal public organizations located in Rio de Janeiro city. Some topics were discussed within literature review: organizational commitment; generation Y; organizational commitment in Brazilian public organizations; and the model used in this research (The Three Components of Organizational Commitment model of Meyer and Allen - affective, instrumental and normative). The methodological approach was a descriptive quantitative survey. The results showed that the predominant component was the affective one, suggesting the generation Y servants have a strong emotional connection, a sense of loyalty and identification with the organizations they work for. The instrumental component was ranked as the second and the normative as the third. The results can support public managers to create human resource development strategies and policies consistent with the characteristics and expectations of the generation Y employees in order foster commitment with organizational goals and objectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Education is going through discussions that involves the traditional teaching model, the new technologies of the contemporary world and the generations that use them. In this process questions arise about the new ways of teaching, new formats for classrooms, new spaces for education, the new role of the school, the teacher and the student. The objective of this study was to evaluate the perception of generation Y students about the use of new technologies in learning environments in a Higher Education Institution. A descriptive, qualitativequantitative research was made with 255 students. It was revealed that 86% of the students use internet to study, work and in their free time. According to the use of the discipline name LAI -"Integrated Learning Lab"35% of the students considered positive the learning outcome, 34% confirm that the use of the platform contributed to the study and learning of the subject studied and 27% confirm that the platform collaborated to increase the study time. Considering the problems reported to the process of platform deployment, it is concluded that the strategy is valid to improve the learning and to extend the study time, according to the students of the generation Y. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]