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Gen Y: Multigenerational Workforce

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My current employer has multigenerational workforce from baby boomer to Gen Y. According to Shroer (n.d.) the baby boomer were born from 1945 to 1964, which would make the generation with 71 million people who were 20 years apart in age. The baby boomer life experience were completely different bonded by the Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations, the Civil Rights movements and the Vietnam War. Generation X were born from 1966 to 1976 sometimes referred to as lost generation with stereotype of first generation with “latchkey” kids, exposed to lots of daycare and divorce. Gen X is often characterized as high level of skepticism and some of the worst music to gain popularity. Also, Gen X has the best educated generation with 29% obtaining …show more content…

The study found Gen Y are tech savvy but not great team player, Gen X are entrepreneurial thinking but rank low on executive presence and boomers are team player and loyal but do not adapt so well (Giang, 2013). 78% of the responders agree member of Gen Y are believed to be the most tech savvy who know how to utilize social media to leverage opportunities. 68% of the responders agree that this young workers are most “enthusiastic” about their job. In contrast, Gen Y scored lowest on being team player, hardworking, and productive part of an organization. More Gen Y were interested in how to get a promotion compared to Gen X or Baby Boomers (Giang, 2013). 70% of the responders believed that Gen X are the most effective managers compared to Gen Y or Baby Boomers. Also, people in Gen X scored highest when it comes to revenue generator, possessing traits of adaptability, and collaboration. In contrast, Gen X scored lowest compared to the Gen Y and Baby Boomers in displaying executive presence and being cost effective. Gen X respondents ranked workplace flexibility as the most important perk and more likely to walk away from the current job if flexibility was not available (Giang,

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This generation witnessed great shifts in economic and social, educational opportunities. Like for example prior to the civil rights movement the workforce, educational system and even communities were racially homogeneous due to segregation. After the Civil Rights movement many had American had to cope with this change and took it either negatively or positively. Similarly to the Women's Movement, women at the time did not have equal rights at men and once these new laws pass enforcing equality for all it was another dramatic change to American culture and now today many baby boomer are reluctant these exponential changes in our

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Millennials are a generation of people born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s. Specifically 1982-2000, and if you think baby boomer’s parents procreated at a high rate well they taught their offspring to do much of the same. Millennials are now 18-36 years of age and comprise of twenty-four percent of the US population, but that 's about the only similarity between the baby boomers and the millennials. Other than the sheer size of the two groups millennials are becoming a generation that the United States couldn 't make up if they tried. Only twenty-one percent of millennials are married while forty-two percent of baby boomers were married at the same age, almost one out of every four millennials have a bachelor degree or higher making them the most educated generation ever seen.

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Also mentioned that Generation Y is less interested in politics but more take care about the amounts of money earned and less interested in helping each other rather enjoying themseleves, being extremely individualistic in comparison to other generations. Generation Y was also described in a positive way as follows: supportive in terms of gay people rights, critisizing discrimination of minorities as a result of being raised open-minded by their families. Also considered to be certain, self-expressive, liberal, fiery and open to new plans what's more to existencialism methodologies. There are vivacious, whether not tedious, common contention around if representatives of Generation Y guided self-entitled narcissists and on the other hand liberal do-gooders and mostly considere that it is something amidst. But despite all the positive characteristics given by different authors and scholars, researchers to Generation Y traditionally the represntatives are considered individualist with a small negative shade and narcissists as well.

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Millennials will change jobs more than any generation, and prefer a fun and flexible workplace. Working hours is another major preference point, where Baby Boomers, Generation Xers, and Millennials prefer flexible work schedules. Millennials are characterized as not working more hours than they need and are definitely not workaholics. Regarding career development, Millennials want to have meaningful jobs and receive instant recognition, while Baby Boomers are on the opposite of the spectrum, and are willing to put more time into their jobs before expecting to receive recognition. Career Pathing is very important to Generation Xers and Millennials, with Millennials expecting to receive the highest level of mentoring, coaching and development.

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