I recently read an article in which people responsible for personnel complained that young job candidates have a fly in the nose, they are fickle, demanding and do not appreciate what they offer. A boy rejected the job because the employer did not give booklet open to the gym. Young people are spoiled?
I do not think. We are talking about generation Y, that is, people born between 1984 and 1997., On milenialsach. For them, that as an employer you pay good money, you create a career path, enabling the promotion is “an obvious matter of course.” Expect it at the outset, this is not for them any added value, only the base. And if the base is ensured, then they start to pay attention to additives, such as for example the gym. I do not think that the desire to have a rich social package was a manifestation of tenderness.
OK, I believe, because of years of experience you study the generation Y. I am also milenialsem, I’m 30 years old. What does it say about me as a worker?
That work is most important for your self-realization and self-expression. Wherever you are, you want to make your mark and be praised and appreciated. On the one hand you do not accept restrictions on work – would you like to have in the course of access to private matters, on the other hand does not want you to work mingled with yours life. Do you want success, you are almost convinced that it reaches, the feeling associated with that pressure, wanting to show those who have invested in you, that they have done well. But do not you accept negative comments and observations. Irritate you, you consider them to be unfair and unjust.
And all this talk statistical generalizations?
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For employers this characterization is, spoiled young man wanting to be a director immediately.
This interpretation results from the difference of experience, available to generation. People with high seniority, those belonging to the generation of baby boomers, or people born after World War II, actually look at milenialsów like spoiled brats. Except that after everyone is a child of his time and ours are very different than those of half a century. If we stop judging others through the prism of their own experience, the attitude of Gen Y will we be quite natural.
The generation of baby boomers in his youth was different than the generation Y?
Yes. It was, at least behaved as if it were cierpliwsze. Milenialsi live in times of “immediately”. Everything has to be immediately from the meal, through information and entertainment, and career. On the one hand this has to do with technological changes in the economy, on the other hand with education. Their parents, who in childhood were treated harshly, they decided to pour their love and put them at the center of family life and give them a voice in making joint decisions. With the training model of education they went on caring. Milenialsi grew up in a world that was centered on and around them. But the family nest must finally leave home sometime. And this is the biggest shock for milenialsów: go to the first job and suddenly end up in an environment that is not on them focused and can get them to think that it treats them even hostile.
This may take some stress.
Of course. Incidentally, do you know which country milenialsi are the least stressed out?
No.
In Poland. This is according to research company Viacom. Most strongly stressed by the young Chinese. Another anomaly is Japan – the local milenialsom lack of assertiveness due to their small number. There are so social clout. And everywhere in the West – as the largest generation in the history of the world – are the reality of huge and growing impact.
The labor market and the company must, therefore, to milenialsów adjust?
First of all, they must understand them. Because without it you can not replace them effectively earlier generations, can not they also successfully pass the baton of leadership.
A few kilometers away is Mokotów industrial, corporate district of Warsaw, called Mordor. Young people flock there every morning to work, to hang on a telephone headset. He treats them as cheap laborers, rather than the future of the labor market. The call center will not pass the baton in a relay generations.
Do not forget that even among milenialsów there is a group that has no aspirations to a career. Always let us have in mind that the categories are certain generational generalizations. Maybe they derive from work, the value of which you, the external observer does not see? It can finance it your hobby? This can for them only an additional source of income or just a temporary phase of your career?
In which instead to develop, perform a point-by-point instructions written out to them by the supervisors. Nice my stage career.
Okay. You’re right that the blind perform repetitive work is not something outstanding. But going back to the issue of understanding the needs of milenialsów. I convince company managers that the most important work is the relationship between generations. If you want to have good employees, you need to have managers who understand the generation Y. Otherwise, people will go, and you will increase the cost of acquiring new ones. What is understanding? For something very simple: milenialsi want to know why they do what they do. Even if you hang on the handset in the call center, you need to know the wider context. For what? To gain a sense of meaning. Another thing is freedom. They must have an impact on how they work, can not be pursuing wholly machines. For what? To gain a sense of control. And finally, the third thing is the feeling that the task has to be performed in an efficient and diligent. How do I build such a feeling? Return to the first two points.
I understand that companies that do not understand milenialsów, waiting for trouble?
More – Twilight! Soon only milenialsi will be on the labor market, then you can be even more troublesome generation. And then what?
What does this mean for the economy as a whole?
Such that the lack of businesses adapt to changes in generational phenomenon particularly dangerous for those big players in the market who are several decades. Who will give them the impetus for further development if the old staff fail to convey the knowledge and know-how to the next generation? But zrozummy well, building a relationship that can make this possible, it is not one-sided process, it requires the involvement of both sides. Except that here we find the barrier of incomprehension. Young, yes, good value and long-lasting relationships at work, but otherwise they define. For the older generation relationships developed on Facebook are not serious turn for milenialsów social networking and mobile technology is the foundation of these relations. His knowledge of the building through a network to communicate brief, terse language and avoid like the plague answering phones. There is no common ground with the manager, who understands the concept of different relationships.
What this technology has done with us …
This is the nature of mobile communication and social networks. It is surprising how hard can manifest itself in the context of the conflict between classical work organization and generation Y. One of my friends was by her friend from childhood expelled from the circle of friends on FB, after it was promoted at work. Why? Reason was this: I do not want snooping and have insight into my private life. Because it promoted, it was treated as a representative of another generation. As the enemy. With this is related to another problem. Milenialsi not fully understand the concept of authority. After what they cocky manager and his knowledge, his advice, if you have colleagues and the internet? Managers perceive this approach as arrogance, arrogance or lack of interest in work. Produced another field of conflict, which makes it difficult to exploit the potential of the Y generation.
Can era authorities is already behind us?
Young people need them, but in a different formula than in the past. There may be artificial and hostile authorities, they must appear as naturally as appeared in their lives authority of parents. Parents who milenialsów treated with love and a partner. They were their guides, not instructors. Similarly, the authority would build to Gen Y in the company or any other organization and institutions.
So now we know what they should understand employers and managers, and what they should adjust milenialsi?
Well, except that it should demonstrate greater openness to older generations should learn to wait. But it is very difficult because of the times in which they live. Their parents, to get some specific information books, they had to go to the library. They have internet. But immediacy not work at work. There is a danger that the representatives of this generation get bored and change her work long before the moment when any promotion will be possible. This can affect their future material well-being.
I have a lack of patience I see another, perhaps even more serious problem. What milenialsami, who would assume the company? After all, the business built up for years, often falls, and the first profits appear after several lean years. I look at Silicon Valley and there the most famous startupowcy representatives of generation X, that is born in the 60s and 70s.
Right. On the one hand milenialsi are enterprising, on the other hand it will not, that everything has to be served on a platter, here and now, can the enterprise not to develop wings. They are not prepared for failure, because it does not allow them to them. They do not understand what is the real loss.
So is there really no gram of truth in the belief that milenialsi are very demanding?
No. I think that their alleged demanding attitude is one of the harmful myths. They are not spoiled, very demanding, there are narcissus. Just so they reason, how should and what is natural, given the world that surrounds them. Milenialsi able to work hard if they know why. Therefore, only companies offering reliable and clear career paths are able to attract talented igrekowców.
Still can spurn the offer of work, while still on the pot parents.
it is a matter of subjective expectations and individual capabilities. Apparently sometimes prefer a pot of parents free time from work, which they consider unsatisfactory.
In your opinion, is there a relationship between the rate of unemployment among the young and the nature milenialsów?
Generation Y is frustrated that the baby boomers do not want to retire. They believe that, among others, as a result of the crisis to those entrenched in their positions and do not want to give young people a chance. Sometimes it’s true. Young people and say: let us finally act. If these calls remain unanswered, there is another point of frustration and intergenerational conflict. On the other hand milenialsi, you can see it in the statistics, really no longer looking for work. This is due to the fact that the grown-even years provides support for the family, giving a type of insurance, and in the case of which a soft landing. Sociologists speak of an additional step in the life cycle milenialsów – developing adulthood (emerging adulthood). This is the time between 18 and 25 years of age. Then milenialsi seek their own idea of life, investigating various leads. Ot, eg. Before going on journalism can go on journalism training, to see if well-chosen studies. Young people are aware that every day creating new professions and maybe do a career in jobs that do not yet exist. They want to experiment and look.
It’s delayed entry into adulthood is beneficial?
Yes, it can be something positive. It can be assumed that this additional amount of experience will translate into a better life choices when it comes to already serious liabilities, such as the family. Perhaps there will be fewer divorces?
Are you sure they will have fewer children (laughs).
Probably. Their way of life and core values will be different. That is why they are wrong those companies that proceed from the assumption: wait a few years, milenialsi take loans, will open a family and they think like us. Coarsely wrong.
In his books draws you attention not only to the fact that milenialsi is the main motor of development of the labor market, but also that are already starting to include managerial positions in companies. Soon, probably they will become their presidents. But this is not the end. They take over after all the over the world. He is glad you thought of rule of Gen Y?
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Really?
Yes, because thanks this generational change many problems will disappear. Milenialsi this generation open, thinking globally, valuing emotional intelligence, appreciating not only the result of the work, but also the man himself. We can therefore expect that their government will be more human, less invasive when it comes to interference in the life of the individual, but also that socially speaking, the problem will disappear racism or unequal treatment of women and men in the workplace. I think milenialsi are much more active and determined in caring for the environment, as well as more socially sensitive than their parents, they are downright altruistic. Some say it is the result of motivations, which gives the system. In the US, for example. For volunteering you get extra points in admissions. Whatever would not, however, result, this altruism is real.
So milenialsi politicians will not build walls?
There will be more inclined to intervene, assist, act. As I said, they think globally and contrary to appearances, are quite large understanding of international affairs and the outside world. This is due in part to the fact that they are educated. Because in hand with education goes a sense of responsibility and influence what is happening in the world.
You can expect milenialsi tempted to carry out fundamental reforms to which their parents have not decided? The first thing that comes to my mind is a revolution in the ossified education system.
At the beginning of the 90s it was suggested that in the twenty-first century. It will take a very different pedagogy, but the system is not changed and field experiments is quite narrow. Along with milenialsami educational system can accept the new teaching model, in which the teacher or professor is accompanied by pupils and students in discovering the world. He currently teaches the knowledge ex cathedra, but given the authority less and less goes to the young. Professors will not abdicate their role, but simply otherwise it will pursue. There will be guides in exploring knowledge, and not the media. I also think that a more transparent and accountable will be managed by milenialsów educational institutions, which still cost a lot of money and need evaluation – US student loans are higher than mortgage loans. With milenialsom price knowledge to realignment. But it is hard to talk about what specific major tasks can take on their shoulders the politicians generation Y. This is because where the old see two solutions, they see a third way.
Thanks to them there are ideas is widely regarded as eccentric?
the privilege of lack of experience is that you can look at the problem from a new perspective. So they can explore new ideas, but it might as well dig up these forgotten. Something that did not work 20 years ago now – in the new circumstances – may work. I see only one danger, when it comes to how quickly milenialsi will change the world. Currently, there is a narrative dictated by the older generations, baby boomers and a bit of a generation X. If one talks about an event, it is from their perspective. This narrative may be so milenialsów forced upon and can be found in quite a schizophrenic state that paralyze what they most value: the desire for action, openness, lack of fear of change.
Who goes after milenialsach? What will be the next generation?
Generation Z? It depends on what you ask. As for the labor market, then here we have the same attitude to work and a career, as in the case of the Y generation, only reinforced. On the other hand, we can see a partial return to the features of previous generations. Parents generation With belong to the generation X, which is more pessimistic and rational, and brought up their children in the belief that not everyone deserves a reward, it is not in all circumstances can be appreciated. This may have an impact on the attitudes of the generation Z. Personally, I’m curious, what habits on the labor market the next generation leave behind. The generation of baby boomers has forced employers a more personal approach to the worker, eliminating the principle that “the problems left on the doorstep of work.” At workplaces appeared centers psychological counseling or assistance programs to employees. With the generation of X include, for example associate. Casual Friday, or loose Friday. On the one hand, a strong work ethic, the second attempt to reconcile her family life.
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