1. Technology in the workplace: Understanding the generations ORGB 625 Team 7 Drexel University

2. Overview Feb. 24, 2010 Despite the vast changes in the pace and availability of technology and information that has created a global economy, many in the workplace are unable to break out of traditional patterns and instead sustain an educational environment that has largely remained unchanged. To better understand the decision making demands that require an organization to stay compatible with technology, leaders must concentrate on the relationships between people and processes. Leaders must focus on the human aspect of change.

4. Gen Xers will be moving into leadership positions rapidly

5. 60 year olds are working beside 20 year olds

6. New college grads are overseeing employees old enough to be their parents

8. What Shaped Them Born 1925-1945 Aged 65-82 41 million

9. Their Approach

10. In the Workplace Traditional Hard working Financially conservative Faithful to institutions

11. Boomers

13. What Shaped Them

15. Lead, follow, get out of the way

16. Compete and stand out

17. Rebel mentalityIndependent Do what they feel like they have to do Driven by guilt Question authority

19. Work longer hours & weekends

20. Like hierarchies

21. Politically adept in the workplace

22. Represent the majority of managers

24. Generation x

25. What Shaped Them What Shaped Them Born 1965-1980 Aged 34-44 41 million

26. Their Approach We gotta take care of #1. What’s in it for me?

28. They will not sacrifice their family for their job

30. Promotions based on longevity

31. Loyalty to the organization

32. Wait to be told what to do

33. Respect based on position/titleNew Generation Workplace Security from within Promotions based on performance Loyalty to the team Challenge authority You must earn respect

34. Generation y

35. What Shaped Them Born 1980-2002 Aged 16-28 70 million

37. Pragmatic/practical

38. Self-reliant/ individualistic

39. Reject rules

40. Killer life- living on the edge

41. Mistrust institutions

42. PC

43. Use technology

44. Multitask

45. Latch-key kids

46. Celebrate diversity

47. Optimistic/realistic

48. Self-inventive/ individualistic

49. Rewrite the rules

50. Killer lifestyle- pursuing luxury

51. Irrelevance of institutions

52. Internet

53. Assume technology

54. Multitask fast

56. Born 1994-2010 Aged <15 23 million

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