Millennial Entitlement Attitudes – Why do those in the Millennial generation seem to have such a sense of entitlement?
Millennials sometimes receive a bad rap about this issue. As this generation has come of age over the past 20 […]
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December 4, 2009
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Generational Attitudes about Fairness – What has happened to fairness at work?
Young people seem to think that everyone should be treated exactly the same. Does fair mean giving everyone the same
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Younger Generations’ Organizational Skills – Do you see any evidence that organizational skills are related to the generational differences?
I’ve noticed that many of my younger employees and co-workers seem to neglect the importance of keeping organized, even in
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Boomers Who Lack Technology Skills – What do we do about Baby Boomers and those older who lack basic technology skills?
While the vast majority of Boomers have adapted well to the evolution of today’s technology, there are a few holdouts.
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Integrating Younger Generations – Are we expected to retool the workplace to suit the style of the younger generations? Why can they just adapt to the workplace?
We are all utilizing technology and changing work processes in a global marketplace. But does all this focus on young
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Involving Generation Y – Generation Y seems much more independent and hard to involve. How do we overcome this?
This all comes down to engaging them in ways that they find attractive. After all, aren’t we all that way?
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Worker Shortages – I am concerned about the shortage of young workers we will see in the future. How can we best deal with it?
There has been a lot written about the coming shortage of workers, but one must first ask about the context.
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Managing Multi-generational Communication Platforms – How can firms best deal with the diverging preferences of different generations when it come to written and voice communication?
This is bedeviling many of today’s organizations. Young people seem to prefer e-mails and texting while veteran workers seem to
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Redeveloping Work Ethic – There appears to be a significant loss in work ethic with the Millennial generation. In fact, work ethic seems to be getting worse with each generation. How can we stop this from happening?
We must always begin this discussion by defining “work ethic.” Older generations might be forgiven for a more manual interpretation
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Retaining Young Workers – How do we successfully retain young professionals?
For many employers, this is turning into the billion-dollar question. Young professionals and entering the workforce with a more contractually-oriented