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Young millennial workers
The quote itself echoes the conventional wisdom about millennials in the workplace:
They’re lazy, entitled, narcissist job-hoppers. But the age of the quote better resembles the truth of the situation: they’re just young… and everyone was that way when young. The real problem with conventional wisdom about millennials in the workplace is that it’s not unique to that generation; it’s unique to young people in general.
Bruce Pfau, head of human resources for KPMG There are definitely some differences, but these have been differences that have been true throughout the centuries.” No doubt it was true for Socrates.
Pfau, who holds a PhD in Psychology from Loyola University, asserts that the best way to deal with millennials in the workplace is to treat them like any other generation… and to treat them right. Pfau offers four questions that all employees ask about their workplace that affect whether employees decided to join a firm or give their best effort while there:
• Is this a winning organization I can be proud of?
• Can I maximize my performance on the job?
• Are people treated well economically and interpersonally?
• Is the work itself fulfilling and enjoyable?
If leaders can help employees answer “yes” to each of these questions, then they’ll shape a company where millennials want to work–and so will every other generation.
I believe this to be true of what an employer should do to enhance the work place for all employs including “millennia’s”. However, I do believe that the characterization of “entitled” and self-centered, though not narcissistic, applies more to this generation than previous generations. Having come of the age in the fifties, I have no recollection of my peers expecting to be taken care of by any institution. There was no free doctors care, no free college, no free housing, no free food, nor was any expected. My children who came of age in the eighties never exhibited the expectation that society owed them anything. It would seem to me that “entitlement” can trace its roots to Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty, which by any measure, failed to lift people out of poverty, rather left people with a sense of entitlement.
My opinion.