in the Workplace

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Theresa Spangler TS Consulting
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in the Workplace
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The Veterans(1922-1945)

• value hard work
• value law and order
• respect authority
• considered the grandparents
• of the workforce
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The Baby Boomers(1946-1964)

• Television
• The Civil Rights Movement
• The Viet Nam War

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The Baby Boomers(1946-1964)

• value personal gratification
• possess strong work ethic/live
• to work/long hours
• are idealistic
• like hands-on involvement
• like being the star/like meetings
• like clear boundaries at work
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Generation X(1965-1979)

• Watergate
• MTV
• Fall of the Berlin Wall

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Generation X(1965-1979)

• value diversity/global thinking
• are self-reliant/self-sufficient
• aloof/skeptical/risk-takers
• equate structure with
• bureaucracy
• do not like micro-management
• view work as a part of life, not the
  raison detre of life.
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Generation Y

• 1 in 3 is not Caucasian
• 1 in 4 lives in a single-parent
• household
• 3 in 4 have working mothers
• 1 in 9 has his own credit card
• in high school
• Involved in family finance
• Maturing sooner growing up later
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Generation Y

• value making money
• are civic-minded
• value diversity
• like teamwork
• unfamiliar with workplace norms
• born digital
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Generation Y

• Programmed by parents from birth
• Most cared for generation
• Helicopter parents
• Parents fight their childrens battles
• Consider themselves special
• Rewarded for participation, not achievement
• Heavily befriended but lightly parented
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Generation Y

• School Violence
• TV Talk Shows
• World Trade/Pentagon
• Terrorist Attack
• Internet
• O.J. Simpson Trial
• Clinton-Lewinsky
• Iraq
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• Employers say that Gen Yers
• Believe that life is a series of headlines and
  highlights.
• Expect to be instant heroes/to rise to the top
  quickly with minimal effort.
• As structured kids, Gen Yers come to the
  workforce with their list of goals on the first
  day.
• Think very highly of themselves.
• In short, this generations kids have been
  culturally conditioned to believe that they are
  perfect and will take a lot of adjustment.
• Require immediate and constant feedback.
• Video games/technology give an instant score.
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• Employers love
• energy
• drive
• skills
• Employers are taken aback by
• short attention spans/inability to think long
  range
• reluctance to perform tasks that they feel are
  beneath them/physical labor/dirty jobs
• Refusal to pay their dues
• lack of knowledge of acceptable workplace
  behavior/attire
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