Managing Generation Y‪.‬

The workforce is becoming relentlessly younger but for the present contains four generations; the Traditionalists, born before 1945; the huge post-war Baby Boomers, born 1945-64; the small Generation X group, born 1965-80, and now Generation Y, born after 1980. Many HR professionals report conflicts between younger and older workers, reflecting each generation's very different values, attitudes toward work and authority, ways of operating, degrees of socialization, skills, and so on. Managers may save themselves some headaches by becoming familiar with Gen Y--a mini baby boom generation now pouring into the marketplace. Introduction