Work Through Millenial's Eyes / Cooping With Millenials At Workplace
What do Millennial Want
What could be done
According to Charles Volkert, there is no one who can create a work environment that suits the need of all of his or her employees. This is particularly true for workers born after 1980 (Generation Y); such young workers often differ significantly from those born before, especially in terms of what they expect from their employers and their mentality towards work. For a manager to not only attract, but also maintain the best of post-1980 workers, it is key to adapt benefits and also formulate a motivational system that takes into account the unique preferences and attributes of these kinds of workers. However, before formulating such steps, it is crucial to first understand the Generation Y employees in detail (Volkert, 1).
What do Generation Y workers Want
According to Robert Half's 2015 white paper, The Changing Face of the Legal Industry, generation Y employees value independence and reinforcement in their work, and prefer work environments that are informal and fun. Since these young people grew up during the technological boom of the 1990s that was characterized by a sharp increase in people using personal computers, it makes them technologically competent (Volkert, 2). Millennials have been brought up at such a time where the internet has allowed information to become...
This, coupled with the fact that generation Y employees want to be creative, results in a group of employees that is not willing to sit around and do the same thing over and over again. Such employees are always on the look for new and more challenging problems and also for challenges that require creativity to be overcome (Gilbert, 4). These views are similar to those expressed by a generation Y worker, Tamara Erickson, who in a 2009 article, admitted to her peers that she expected she would get more opportunities to work on her own ideas and that the managers would have already known that the model is changing (Erickson, 15). Another researcher, Leigh Buchanan, in her work Meet the Millennials, says that one of the distinguishing characteristics of generation Y employees is that apart from being technologically proficient, they are also geared to do well by doing good. For instance, in her work, Buchanan says that 70% of the millennials they surveyed said that their highest priorities were being civically engaged and giving back to the community. According to a work done by Yahoo! HotJobs and Robert Half Legal What Millennial Workers Want: How to Attract and Retain Gen Y Employees, millennials are a practical group, and when assessing job opportunities, they will look at room for career growth, benefits and salaries, before they look into any other factors. The work also reports that constant feedback and…
