Knowing Oneself

¶ … Oneself Managing and leading employees in any organization can either be easy or difficult to some managers depending on the prevailing circumstances; however, managing different generations within the same organization is the most difficult task the managers do experience in the world today.

In regards to the workforce in any organization, the employees are categorized according to different generations, namely the generation Y and the generation Z The Y Generation is the generation of people who were born in the mid 1970s to 2000, and were portrayed to be the next big generation, and were highly educated, and employed. Conversely, generation Z are born in the mid of 1996 up-to-date. They are teenagers and do not understand life without having computers, internets and the mobile phones.

This paper therefore analyzes the characteristics of the people living in the Y generation and Z. generation as well as, describing how the Y generation can use their strengths in managing and leading the employees. The paper also analyzes the difficulties that might be encountered in managing and leading the employees and how they can be overcome. The Y generation The Y generation involves the young professional people going into a workforce, and are said to be the fastest growing section in the area of workforce.

The Y generations are not brand loyal as compared to the Z. generation who tends to be the internet experts; however they are very flexible as well as, can easily adapt to any environment. They also expect different workplaces to be flexible and to change the employees than other different generations such as the X generation, given that it is nurtured and pampered with the worldly goods. For this case, managers should always be aware of being both higher performances to help manage and lead the employees.

Some of the characteristics of people living in the Y generation include; striving for challenges; these people try to make sure they strive for challenges that involve creativity. This can be done individually or through teamwork within the employees. In their creativities, they usually request their supervisors who tend to be highly committed in the area of expert development. The Y generation has the characteristics of multitasking, as they encourage communications via text messaging and e-mails.

This kind of people are time keepers given that they don't waste any time and their minds are set never to waste any time, but to remotely get engaged 24/7 in using devices such as laptops, iPhone and other devices for communication throughout (Walker & Lewis, 2010). The Y generation feels inspired and motivated whenever they are given immediate feedback because they have high expectations of striving to work better and quickly, therefore by not responding to any questions they might be asking, this can lower their moral of working.

The Y generation also is committed to further learning since that is the only resource to further additional of knowledge. Lastly, the Y generation expects their managers to be very fair and should be committed in order for a proper management and leading of the employees in the firm (Walker & Lewis, 2010). The Z. generation The Z. generations are the people born after the year 1995. They are born in the error of developed technology where computers, internets and mobile phones have become a necessity to them.

They are said to be the Digital Natives people who breath and functions within the interfaced of technology. The Z. generation extrapolates that, in the future they may be spoiled, gifted and highly skilled through the use of internet savvy. By the Z. generation getting to much involved to web-based information, this concludes that they tend to have very poor integration as well as, summarizing skills as they are usually used to an overload of information. Some of the characteristics of people living in the Z. generation include; the Z.

generations are spoilt teenagers of the wealthier parents who have fewer children. These people usually have all the opportunity of a high-technology choice with more entertainment. The people in this generation tends to appear very old as compared to their age, however are more experienced, and are aware of marketing and electronic choices. They also have a multi-tasking skill which is developed more quickly as they put their emphasis on the accuracy of speed. The Z.

generation in most cases suffers from an overload of information given that they neither check on the source nor the reliability of the information. Lastly, this people in the coming future will have the advantage in workforce since they will start working at the time the generation X or the baby boomers get out of the workforce (Walker & Lewis, 2010). How the Y generations use their strengths to manage and lead employees The Y generation can use their strengths to manage and lead employees through engagement.

It is appropriate for organization to increase their productivity by ensuring that the managers deliberately lead the employees towards an engagement by using a knowledgeable intent and strengths ( Henman, 2002). The Y generations use their strengths in knowing the weaknesses and.