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Title: in the Workplace


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Theresa Spangler TS Consulting
Training spangler_at_thebest.net
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
  • TS Consulting Training

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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
  • TS Consulting Training

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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.
  • TS Consulting Training

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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
  • TS Consulting Training

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

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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
  • TS Consulting Training

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Generation Y
  • School Violence
  • TV Talk Shows
  • World Trade/Pentagon
  • Terrorist Attack
  • Internet
  • O.J. Simpson Trial
  • Clinton-Lewinsky
  • Iraq
  • TS Consulting Training

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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.


  • TS Consulting Training

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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
  • TS Consulting Training
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