Key points discussed in literature review section :
• Generation Y has grown up with constant praise and recognition, which is said to have caused them to be fickle and high maintenance with a high sense of entitlement
• Members of this generation are also known to have lower levels of organizational commitment and need for social approval
• Younger workers were significantly more likely to believe that they should be rewarded or recognized in some way for a job well done than their older colleagues
• Managers should know the different values of each generation
• The Gen Y mindset is more about the journey than the destination
• How to properly motivate Gen Y
• Intrinsic Motivation and extrinsic Motivation
Generation Y are individuals born between the years of 1982 and 2000. This generation has grown up within the technology era, using a variety of social networking sites as a main source of communication, which is different than previous generation’s face-to-face way of socializing. Members of Generation Y are hard driven, tech savvy, ambitious, and well aware of the social context of their life and their work. Sure, they want money and “stuff,” but they also value the communal and social aspects of their lives. Generation Y employees view their jobs as a continuation of their educations. They need to feel they are learning, and they especially appreciate being coached. Generation Y people welcome new challenges and a manageable degree of risk. This is an adrenaline-driven generation that craves change and challenge, and members won’t shrink from assignments outside their comfort zones. They see an opportunity to take on a new challenge as a vote of confidence in their abilities. Team loyalty is a key tool for motivating and re...
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...an overall efficient workforce. Managers should attempt to measure and interrupt levels of relatedness within their organization and implement plans to help build and promote the importance of relatedness. Team building exercises and other relationship building techniques adopted can help to promote and grow relatedness between co-workers.
In finding that generation Y yields almost equal numbers of intrinsic and extrinsically motivated people, we can confidently conclude that generation Y should not be stereotyped as being mostly one or the other. Accepting that this generation of workers encompasses a plethora of behavioural characteristics and can be motivated by different means, managers should be able to affectively create a work environment that allows for individuals of different motivational tendencies to work together and successfully accomplish work tasks.
It appears that Generation Y is executing the wishes that other generations of workers subdue, and are subsequently portrayed as a vocal group by default. As a result of millennials’ demands, various companies are now beginning to conform to the ideas this generation presents. As such, new policies are being implemented,
The 21st century has brought great change and advancement in all aspect of life for mankind across the world. From the creation of high-tech gadgets to innovative ways of basic living, millennials have had a huge engagement in the works of creating such things. They have brought change and advancement through ways in which mankind has never seen before. On the contrary, past generations believe that Millennials are bringing negativity and corruption into the world. The article "The Beat-Up Generation" by Abby Ellin says that " Millennials are, arguably, the most reviled generation in recent history, and armies of consultants are hustling to decipher them. Called the "Trophy Generation," notorious for receiving prizes simply for showing up,
With the current change in demographics throughout the workforce, organizations are feeling the effects of a larger percentage of baby boomers retiring and a large percentage of millennial new entrants. The words used to describe millennial employees, “spoiled, trophy kids, ambitious”, seem to be as everlasting as the constructive and negative perspectives attached to them. Many can debate on the entitlement of these employees within an organization, how these employees can be groomed and managed to better fit the organization, the positive and negative attributes they bring into the workplace, and how the preceding can benefit or derail the effectiveness of an organization. Nonetheless, a harder debate, comes about in denying that organizations must adjust to and integrate these employees into the workforce.
By 2025, about 75% of the American workforce will be made up of Generation Y workers, said Emily Matchar, author of “Why Your Office Needs More Bratty Millennials.” Generation Y, also known as millennials, are those who were born within the years 1982 and 1999. Time management has become a persistent issue for people in the United States because of the lack of flexibility in the workforce. Work is taking over people’s lives. The current generation of workers tend not to demand because of the fear of unemployment; jobs are scarce these days. Generation Y workers have shown that they will not accept today’s hierarchical workplace, on the contrary, they will begin to change the workplace to their likings.
In Catherine Rampell’s article, “A Generation of Slackers? Not So Much,” the idea of the younger generation, known as Generation Y or Millennials thought of as lackadaisical and indolent by older generations has been quashed by Rampell’s explanations of the differing behaviors and ideas held by these two generations, causing a misunderstanding and misinterpretation of productivity. The era of computers has especially been a major cause of such a rift, specifically the dependence on technology of which has contributed to the growth of synergistic and collaborative dispositions amongst the younger generations- behaviors once thought of as ineffectual in the workplace.
Workers are often pitted against each other in the work place as a form of competition. One division that is commonly seen is gender and race, but there is also a divide concerning age that isn’t discussed as frequently. Baby Boomers are those who was born between 1946-1964, when WWII soldiers came back home, settled down and started the “Baby Boom”. While Millennials are those born around 1981-2000, and have a similar population size as Baby Boomers. In the workplace, Millennials are categorized as being bad workers due to how they were raised in sheltered lifestyles and require a different environment than the previous generation, but that is not accurate. Even though the two generations view work different, sometimes to the point of conflict,
As a matter of fact, the manner in which they handle their children at home, managing their expectations should be the actual case in the work places. The generation Y employee is a constrained bomb of ideas, innovations, and expectations which only then transforms to expectations. The point is, these young employees have abilities that lack capacities. So now they look unto the generation X, the management to feed these capacities, as much as they may do this in a shrewd manner definitive of their expectations (Vaiman & Vance, 2008) Ideally, the generation X should be ready to embrace change in whose case the models of change should be very instrumental to help them manage the generation Y and their ideas and suggestions of change. The synthesis of the two conflicts now becomes the fusion of cultures to end up with a stable understanding of procedures for the young employees and a modern inception and injection of modern ideas into the long held organization cultures,
Some ways to get generation x motivated is to give them rewards. Some ways to make them happy at work is have some fun at work, work does not have to be serious all the time. Especially do not look over their shoulder. (Mocke, 2014) Generation Y also known as the Millennium Generation was born between the 1980s and the early 1990s. Generation Y is the children of the baby boomers.
It is a dominant stereotype that the Millennial Generation possesses a great sense of entitlement. When one is entitled, they feel as if they should be more privileged and seem to behave as if they are more deserving than others. Most readers are in agreeance with those who argue that Generation Y, otherwise referred to as the Millennial generation, is an entitled group of people, but not everyone is in agreeance with who is responsible for the sense of entitlement that these Millennials possess.
John is also a member of Generation Y (Gen Y) ,and as such hold many of the traits that are described in exhibit 9-6 in Fundamentals of Management (Robbins, Decenzo & Coulter, 2013). He holds high expect...
How did we get such an over inflated sense of work entitlement? Generation Y also know as The Entitlement Age (those born between 1980 and 1999). In the Journal of Business & Economics Research – April, 2009 they describe Generation Y as technologically savvy but seem to lack interpersonal skills.Tend to lack patience and whatever is wanted, should occur now; also the why me attitude. Often it is blamed on the parents of these children for giving them things without working for it, telling them they were special, and not instilling the ethic of hard work. It is my hope that further generations will re-kindle the dormant american sprit of the can do attitude.
Entitlement is the greatest problem facing today’s generation and should be fixed by educating parents of the importance of giving criticism to their children and teaching the children great responsibility and good work habits that may influence their decisions later on in their lives. Major problems of today’s generation are laziness, disrespectfulness, and self entitlement. Laziness is the quality of being unwilling to work or use energy. Disrespectfulness is the quality of being disrespectful. Self entitlement is when one believes that they have a right to something. There are many names for today’s generation. For example, the “me, me, me” generation or the millennials.
Generation X, have little loyalty or confidence in leaders and institutions, no aspirations of retirement, flexible work schedules, they prefer individual projects and minimal supervision. This group has positives and negatives to it, as team work is not something they enjoy, but they do work quickly to complete tasks. This generation likes working under a motivational leader with a democratic manager. They are very skeptical of authority figures and will test
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Generation Y- also “called Millennials” refers to people born approximately between the 1980’s -2000. The striking behavior patterns we see among them are one being “group oriented”. They are more comfortable acting in groups. Facebook is just one of many examples, which being an integral part of their life. Typically they have also been more subjected to group activities since childhood, often parents or teachers engaging them in-group activities. Parents, and the current teaching system are responsible for their obsession with group activities. I’ll not say that working in groups is bad, but when the person is given a individual task he/she will find it difficult to work on it. The problem with group activities is that, group activities consist of everyone’s effort. Everyone is good at something so, its obvious that group projects are always good. I would like to quote an example here from my own life. I was working on a group project with my friends, we had to make a presentation on my school’s history. I was good in making a good presentation, but I, to be honest am not good at coll...