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3.  To  analyse  the  differentiating   Financial  compensation  is
       factors   that    impacts    the   divided into direct salary, wages,
       compensation and benefits of Gen  incentives, and bonuses, and non-
       Z and Gen Y in service sector.     financial  compensation  is  divided

        Literature Review                 into  benefits,  transportation  and
                                          commuting facilities, insurance
        Compensation                      schemes, vacations, and canteen
        For  the  first  time,  there  are  five   facilities. Compensation includes
       generations working in the same    issues such as salary and wages,
       workplace,  each  with  different   job  profile,  job  description  and
       pay  and  benefit  expectations.  As   structure,  incentives,  bonus
       organisations newest addition, Gen   schemes,      commission-based
       Z (born 1996 - 2010), has caused   programmes,  retirement  benefit
       companies and organisations to     programmes, health and insurance
       reconsider the pattern of their    benefits,  leisure  activities  such  as
       benefits   and     compensation    vacation and travel, and so on.
       packages.                           (Faheem Ghazanfar, 2011) stated
        Employees who provide services    in his research that work motivation
       or individuals who contribute to   can  be  influenced  by  both
       the business are both rewarded with   satisfaction and compensation.
       remuneration, which is known        Gen Z
       as compensation. Contributions
       can include skills,  talent, abilities,   Generation Z Generations of
       knowledge, and commitment/         people who were born in the 1990s
       loyalty to the company or a specific   and raised in the 2000s through the
       project.                           most  significant  developments  of
                                          the century are referred to as the
        Compensation is not limited to    Generation Z. They live in a world
       salaries or pay checks; it can also be   where  there is  free access  to  the
       in cash or in kind (in-kind).      internet, smart phones, computers,
        According to (Mobley, 1982)       and digital media (Bascha, 2011;
       research,  compensation    is  a   Brue Tulgan & Rain maker Inc.,
       condition in which wages are       2013). The social web has been a
       in accordance with the reality     part of Generation Z’s upbringing,
       of compensation received by        they are focused on technology,
       employees. Compensation appears    and  it  defines  them.  The  terms
       in two ways: one internal and one   Generation I, Gen Tech, Digital
       external (P.Robbins, 1997).        natives, Gen Wii, etc. are also used

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