Management matters: How to bridge the generation gap

The workplace is changing, and organisations must change with it, writes Ronan Cox

John F Kennedy: gauging the potential of the future

“The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.” – John F Kennedy

Much of the literature related to motivation in the workplace of today at some point turns its attention to generational segmentation, or GS. As time moves on, clever terms to explain this approach appear more frequently: Depression era; Baby Boomer; Generation X, and the most current “challenge”, Generation Y, or millennials.

Whether ...