The organisations in the corporate world are bound to face numerous challenges on regular basis. Various generations are working in the organisations at the same time and this generational diversity poses an avoidable challenge for the organisations irrespective of the nature of the industry and location.

Purpose: The author aims to answer the following questions in the article: (a) whether iGen is significantly diverse from the other previous generational cohorts, (b) to determine the themes and contexts in which generational diversity and iGen have been studied, (c) to identify the gaps in the existing literature regarding the study of generational diversity and iGen and (d) to determine the future scope for the researchers to study regarding generational diversity and iGen.

Methodology: Scopus database has been used in this study and 60 articles have been picked out from the database of 791 articles for the review. TCCM framework has been utilised for this study.

iGen, generational diversity, TCCM, Gen Z

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