Baby Boomer Leadership Styles
ABSTRACT
“The working world is in a moment of extraordinary generational change.” Pollack, Lindsey. (2013). Baby Boomers are continuing to work well into their 60s , Gen Xers are in midway into their careers and Millennials are advancing in their careers and taking on leadership roles. This has caused a change in the workplace dynamics. Businesses are managing three different generation of employees each with differing attitudes. These differences on one hand are informative for the managers and the upper management to be able to manage employees keeping the differences in mind, on the other hand if ignored it can pose a challenge. The key to manage the generation mashup is to effectively manage the differences in values and expectations of each generation, Focus and recognize unique skill set of each and make the workplace a place of collaboration and exchange of ideas.
INTRODUCTION
The ever-changing technology, work patterns along with plethora of workers with different styles of working from the three generations - baby boomers, Generation X and Generation Y is causing major changes in the workplace. These generation have different mindsets, communication styles and work ethics. Understanding the differences and similarities between these three different …show more content…
This generational diversity has been seen cause a change in workplace dynamics. The study conducted by psychologist Constance Patterson, PhD, concludes that generational differences are legitimate diversity issues that organizations need to recognize and understand. According to (Patterson, 2005) each generation is developed on a certain value set and has evolved with different attitudes from one another. The influence of economic, social and political events also affect the working style of each
“The working world is in a moment of extraordinary generational change.” Pollack, Lindsey. (2013). Baby Boomers are continuing to work well into their 60s , Gen Xers are in midway into their careers and Millennials are advancing in their careers and taking on leadership roles. This has caused a change in the workplace dynamics. Businesses are managing three different generation of employees each with differing attitudes. These differences on one hand are informative for the managers and the upper management to be able to manage employees keeping the differences in mind, on the other hand if ignored it can pose a challenge. The key to manage the generation mashup is to effectively manage the differences in values and expectations of each generation, Focus and recognize unique skill set of each and make the workplace a place of collaboration and exchange of ideas.
INTRODUCTION
The ever-changing technology, work patterns along with plethora of workers with different styles of working from the three generations - baby boomers, Generation X and Generation Y is causing major changes in the workplace. These generation have different mindsets, communication styles and work ethics. Understanding the differences and similarities between these three different …show more content…
This generational diversity has been seen cause a change in workplace dynamics. The study conducted by psychologist Constance Patterson, PhD, concludes that generational differences are legitimate diversity issues that organizations need to recognize and understand. According to (Patterson, 2005) each generation is developed on a certain value set and has evolved with different attitudes from one another. The influence of economic, social and political events also affect the working style of each