Management matters: How to bridge the generation gap
The workplace is changing, and organisations must change with it, writes Ronan Cox
“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 ...