Managers Find Ways To Get Generations To Close Culture Gaps

I’ve been hearing a lot lately about how Gen Y is forcing change in the corporate world. Us Gen X’ers are kind of stuck in the middle of two HUGE generations and I think it will be interesting to see how the working world changes because of this younger set.

From the Wall Street Journal:

Baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, still make up the majority of U.S. employees, but increasingly they’re being supervised by or working closely with Generation X’ers, born between 1965 and 1977, and are joined by younger “millennials,” or Gen Y employees, the newest additions to staffs. And there are still many “traditionalists” on board, as those in their mid-60s are called. Motivating each of these generations to work together requires managers to relinquish a one-style-fits-all approach to their subordinates. Read the Story