Generational Diversity in the Modern Workforce

Generational Diversity in the Modern Workforce

MPA 540 Personnel Management - Michele Nissen

Baby BoomersOptimistic, explore, ambitious, highly competitive, motivated by $$ and position, value team work, personal growth and involvement, independent, overachievers, wealth

Traditionalists, Matures, VeteransDedicated employees, loyal to the organization, hard workers, value rules, conformity, and authority, patriotic

1922- 1945

Generation XNixon/Watergate, energy crisis, latch-key kids, stock market crash, fall of Berlin Wall, Challenger explodes, Operation Desert Storm, Rodney King riots, MTV, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, alternative rock, AIDS

Generation Y/MillennialsTerrorism, bombings: World Trade Center, Oklahoma City, Atlanta Olympics, Madrid & London subways, 9/11, school violence: Columbine, Virginia Tech, & Beslan (Russia), technology boom, Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, reality TV, move back home with parents

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1946-1964

5 Generations

1965-1980

1980-2000

After2000

iGen (Gen Z, Nexters)Influential market share, technologically savvy, social media influencers, Face time, Iraq War, Afghanistan War, iPod, iPhone, tablet, diverse, pop-culture, Sandy Hook school shootings, home-schooled, stay at home parent, social life is online, cyber bullying

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GENERATIONAL EVENTS