Wonderful are your works, Lord. Something like this I recently sentenced at a conference on the theory of generations X, Y, Z. It just so happened that all this generational hype passed me by. And therefore, when they began to tell me that when managing teams, one must take into account their involvement in one or another letter of the Latin alphabet, I was a little puzzled (“swelled”, “surprised”, “frostbitten”, “ofigel”, “stunned”, etc.). depending on which generation you belong to).
It is difficult to deny the fact that each generation has its own heroes and ideals. Evgenia Shamis, CEO of Sherpa S Pro, founder and coordinator of RuGenerations, the Russian school of Generation Theory, presented the following generational classification.
To exaggerate, each generation is characterized by a specific set of behavioral qualities. For example, people of generation “X” want to prove their uniqueness everywhere and always, “Y” - success, and “Z” - they care about comfort, convenience and safety. And they also require interesting and short "clips", simplicity and speed of perception of everything and everyone. It is no coincidence that they have included voice messages in instant messengers, all kinds of bots, scripts, masks, neural networks and other attributes of digital automation of routine processes.
“OK,” I said to myself, and was about to head back to the office, but on the way I was overtaken by another hello from generations “X”, “Y”, “Z”. My friend posted on Facebook a conversation with one of her employees. A person simply did not come to a highly paid job in the office. Insomnia and winter were listed as an argument.
In the comments to the post, absolutely wonderful stories from the life of modern inhabitants of Class A offices were discovered.
Has the world really changed, and now the labor market is dominated by millennials? When I watched this humorous YouTube video (see below), I thought it was a great satirical hyperbole. But after everything described above, I am not surprised at anything.
For my part, I want to share my personal opinion “from under the driftwood” on a given topic. I do not pretend to be the ultimate truth, in no way question the generational theory, but still I think that Maslow's pyramid is still firmly on its foundation.
The needs for food, water and a roof over your head are relevant for generations "X", "Y", "Z". And no matter how we call each other, there is no escape from warmth and food. This I mean that motivation, supermotivation and other tools for influencing labor productivity have a limited resource. In my opinion, if the situations described above arise, then it is worth radically resolving the issue, bypassing the stage of philosophical reflection on the topic of what should I do with this “Y”. There is a hypothesis - feel free to send to "X".
What is your opinion? Can you share your experience of interaction between different generations? Is this a real problem, or is it just another hype trendy thing sucked out of your finger?
Source: habr.com