Wk 5, MHA 543: Part III Organizational Culture and Succession Planning

S/N

WORK TRAITS

BABY BOOMER      (1945 - 1960)

GENERATION X              (1961 - 1980)

GENERATION Y       (1981 - 1995)

GENERATION Z      (BORN AFTER 1995)

1

Formative Experience

Cold War

End of Cold War

9/11 Terrorist Attacks

Economic Downturn

Post War Boom

End of Berlin Wall

Play Station

Global Warming

Swinging Sixties

Reagan/Gorbachev

Social Media

Global Focus

Apollo Moon Landings

Thatcherism

Invasion of Iraq

Mobile Devices

Youth Culture

Live Aid

Reality TV

Energy Crisis

Woodstock

Introduction of First PC

Google Earth

Arab Spring

Family-Oriented

Early Mobile Technology

Glastonbury

produce own media

Rise of the Teenager

Latch-Key Kids: Rising of the

Cloud Computing

 Teenager

Wiki-leaks

2

Percentage in US Workforce

25%

33%

35%

5%

3

Communication

Face-to-face Ideally but telephone or e-mail if required

Text messaging or e-mail

Online and mobile (text messaging)

Facetime 

4

Communication Media

Telephone

E-mail and Text message

Text or Social Media

Hand-held, (or integrated into clothing)

5

Attitude towards Technology

Early Information Technology (IT) adaptors

Digital Immigrants

Digital Natives

Technoholics - Entirely dependent on IT: Limited grasp of alternatives

6

Signature Product

Television

Personal Computer

Tablets/Smart Phone

Google glass, graphency, Nano-computing, 3-D Printing, Driverless Cars

7

Aspiration

Job Security

Work-life Balance

Freedom and Flexibility

Security and Stability