Part 3: Understanding the Generation Gap

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  jlvelez11/09/07 Report as spam
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  Re: Generation Gap

  This article represents yet another way in which firms are ignoring the new generation of workers and dropping the ball in leveraging talent.
  
  As a 'younger worker' I can relate. I can do any job, but the job that provides me with a sense of accomplishment and challenges me to succeed is the one that will keep showing up for every day.

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  Hoodeetch66612/12/07 Report as spam
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  RE: Part 3: Understanding the Generation Gap

  I don't think any of this is new. When people my age (now 59) were new in the workforce, they were saying the same thing. As most people grow older, their expectations from a job are less lofty, and they also grow to understand why many things are done as they are without needing an explanation from the boss.
  
  I suspect that 10, 20 and 30 years from now, the same views will be expressed in business surveys about workers and their attitudes toward their jobs and supervisors.
  
  Also, it's not really fair to say that management used to be autocratic in the past and has become more collaborative in recent year. There always have been different management styles, and there will continue to be as long as the management function exists.

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  vincent.fong@...01/17/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Part 3: Understanding the Generation Gap

  One of the real dangers (in forseeing years to come) is the lack of ability or confidence of gen-y and some some-x employers (probably managers by then) in making decisions.
  
  There is general trend these days to give in to the have managers placate to the younger generation workforce. I wonder if anyone has ever stopped to consider the ill effects of such pampering in years to come.
  
  I already note among my peers that many would not make decisions preferring to pass on the decision making process to someone else. This must defintely have dire consequences if managers of the future cannot / would not make the hard calls.

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  melani@...06/06/08 Report as spam
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  RE: Part 3: Understanding the Generation Gap

  Not sure what gen-y and gen-x you work with, but the groups we associate with are amazing decision makers.