Generations at Work: Managing the Clash of Veterans, Boomers, Xers, and Nexters in Your Workplace |  | Authors: Ron Zemke, Claire Raines, Bob Filipczak
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 Generationa at Work July 10, 2009
Carol Louissaint (Pasadena, CA)
This book is an assignment for a class that I am taking in Sociology. I find it clear and relevant to the class. The unit relates to the pathways to understand social components. It is never drudgery to read and study from it. I am a student and I saved a lot of money on this purchase.
Anne-Marie L.
 Editor sleeping on the job? July 8, 2009
Susan Skoog (Jamaica Plain, MA USA)
For a book about the workplace, it is decidedly unprofessional.
It is littered with grammatical errors, punctuation issues, and incorrect spellings, to the degree that it reads like a vanity press title.
Examples:
The second sentence: "Never before has there been a workforce and workplace--so diverse in so many ways." What? Also, it's not spelled "naval" ring.
 Interesting, but incomplete June 4, 2009
D Bass
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I saw this on a bookshelf in our office and picked it up, reading it each morning while my computer booted up. First of all, a lot of the reviews in here seem to be plants instead of legitimate unsolicited opinions.
The basic premise of the book is interesting and supported by actual data, but the departure points contain a number of flaws. The final straw (where I stopped taking it seriously) is where the authors write about the millennials having some kind of date with destiny. They even reference Nostradamus. They cite Howe and Strauss (the original generational studies trailblazers) who believe that some great crisis will occur in 2015-2020. Weird.
Some of the stereotypes actually match real people, and even match them in groups, but as with many books with a social science bent, it merely reinforces what you probably already know from observation. I am also not sure how well this information will age. In the text the authors point out that boomers have changed their views over the years, so who is to say that generations won't continue to change? For example, one of the most significant events for the millennials is the Columbine shootings according to the authors, but of course that was before 9/11 and the ensuing wars. Furthermore, events like this change everyone, not just the generation in its relative youth at the time. The same thing goes for the recent economic and financial upheavals. I bet every generation is a little more cynical and distrustful of people at the top as a result.
A more useful book would have actually surveyed different generations in various career fields and asked what was important to them in the workplace. The answers would not have been as clear-cut, but ultimately more useful to managers. Heck, you could probably even make it a full-time consulting job if you focused on career fields with high turnover rates or an insufficient recruiting pool.
Final verdict: look for a copy on a manager's bookshelf or at the library if you have a little time to kill like I did, but don't buy this.
After 10 years May 15, 2009
Robert Filipczak (kimball, MN United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was published 10 years ago, and it still amazes me how helpful it continues to be for the people I talk to. People still buy it, read it and tell me how much it's helped them. I re-read sections from time to time, and it really is an interesting read, which I attribute to Ron's influence. It also has managerial insight, which I attribute to Claire.
I've changed some of my positions on the next generation--the ones we call Nexters, but we even got some of those predictions right without a lot of research and knowledge about their work habits.
So all in all, this has been a very interesting book to write, to watch, and to re-read from time to time.
Generations Work October 26, 2008
Andrew Brown (Toronto, Canada)
Over the last 15 years, a few books have genuinely captured the attention and admiration from people across the business community. Such successes tend to reflect the contemporary tide in economic thought while still provide some insight into a narrow aspect of business. Among the better known of these works are Don Tapscott's Paradigm Shift --focusing on technology's affects on society, Peter Senge's Fifth Discipline -- explaining organizations' internal operations, David Foot's Boom, Bust and Echo- revealing society's shaping by waves in demographics and Walid Mougayar's Opening Digital Markets -- discussing ways businesses can take advantage of the Internet.
Now, with the growth of e-commerce, more business and economic models are being developed and published faster than ever before. The result: it seems impossible to place into perspective the vast amount of genuinely good business insight. This is where Generations at Work is an invaluable resource. Penned by three members of the American Management Association, Generations does what many writings aspire to, but fail to accomplish -- clearly and concisely suggest a linkage between widespread social and economic trends, organizational behaviour and people's behaviours on the job.
The premise of Generations is neither new nor complicated: people resemble their times more than their parents. However, in demonstrating their point, the authors extend the work done by other social demographic specialists, such as David Foot, and combine considerable research into fairly digestible chunks. In so doing, they provide a reference from which anyone can gain a meaningful glimpse into the generations that have shaped and will continue to influence our homes, workplaces and social institutions.
The authors begin by ordering our society into widely recognized groupings based on dates of birth. Their careful attempts to guard against making stereotypes while providing some typical demographic profiles more than makes up for their reliance on terms that we are all too familiar with, including Veterans, Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Nexters (Gen Y).
After `sizing-up' each segment, the authors go into painstaking detail to help us better understand the mind-set of each of these groups at home, at work and with one another. For each segment the authors describe the following:
Work ethic, Core values, Preferred work environments, Seminal events
Messages that motivate, Cultural memorabilia, Leadership style, Heroes
Team member style, Sense of humour, preferred readings, spending style, Follower style, What other generations think of them, Principles for recruiting and orienting, An average Day in the Life, Guidelines for developing careers, Common myths
Because Generations appreciates that most people's lives consist of work and non-work, their analyses are particularly relevant. So, whether you're mission in life is to supply or to demand, this text will add value. It is worthwhile if you need to make a prediction about or understand the individuals, organizations or social institutions of our society. Generations provides insight into the heart and personality of your colleagues and teammates, your clients, your business partners and yourself.
Generations does however suffer from some flaws. First, you can quickly detect an American bias. For example the authors did not address the different demographic segments in other areas of the World that have seen more drastic inter-generational schisms and considerably more growth. Second, the parallel structure of the book's core is terrific for comparison purposes across chapters but often makes you feel like you're reading a textbook. Finally, the authors, no doubt recognizing how static their structure, realigned some of the information in a question and answer format. This might have been their attempt to make much of the information more palatable for popular business journals. However, the questions and answers alike come across as forced.
Combine Generations with the works of Tapscott, Senge, Foot and Mougayar along with a model of how people process information and you'll have a strong foundation of how our workforces, businesses and institutions are currently evolving.
Andrew Brown and Robert Gold, co-hosts of the BusinessCast Podcast (Insights and Practical Tools for Entrepreneurs). [...]
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