• How it is important that organizations, especially managers recognize the difference and the real meaning behind each different generation.
• Understand each of the four generations and their perception of workstyle and how they perceive the world
• Each of the generations has its own ways of learning, communicating, working style, and collaborating
• Out of every generation leaders should generate something positive
• Technology has had a big impact on the need for knowledge and education
• Employees must learn from the “digital natives” who grew up immersed in the fast-changing technology, having a huge impact in today’s society.
• While generational differences do exist, they as well have …show more content…
Discuss how you see each of the articles through the prism of the main learning objectives of the course. These are:
Students will engage deeply with the key topics in organizational behavior such as understanding multiple levels of analysis (individual, team, organizational).
• Capturing the Wisdom of Four Generations article to a large extent addressed this learning objective. The article discusses how each generation has its own way of communicating, working in teams and even individually. However, from the five generations each has their own ways of looking things positively to the workplace and be successful whether individually or teamwork. More Over, Millennials; Generation Z Is Here addresses how leaders have gotten in trouble with the generations when trying to debate who is better, worse, right or wrong, building more gaps between the organizations
The effective functioning of teams will receive particular attention.
• Capturing the Wisdom of Four Generations article address this objective. It explains how bringing generations together for non-work tasks help build communication. They emphasize on teamwork since it leads to higher productivity. Cross-functional teams is a very good example, which focus on people with different expertise and experiences working toward a common goal. More Over, Millennials; Generation Z Is Here discusses the gap between the generations who debate who is better, worse, right or wrong and how Gen Z is different from the generations