Peer Responses Peer 1: Celia Davis Your focus on generation differences is interesting and I feel that I share some of them, but I also wonder like you how much of it is cultural and not necessarily generational, as Quehl (n.d.) points out. I think that cultural values have changed and they continue to change and we are people who are no longer in step with...
Peer Responses
Peer 1: Celia Davis
Your focus on generation differences is interesting and I feel that I share some of them, but I also wonder like you how much of it is cultural and not necessarily generational, as Quehl (n.d.) points out. I think that cultural values have changed and they continue to change and we are people who are no longer in step with the popular cultural values of self-assertion and of young people being taught that their will is valid even if an older person is trying to correct them. That is a big problem I see happening with the upcoming generation: they are being misled down this road of the idea that their self-esteem is all that matters when in reality nobody cares about their self-esteem and just want to know if they have the skills to do a job or not.
References
Quehl, G. (n.d.). The social and cultural characteristics of generational age group (Links to an external site.)s (Links to an external site.). (Links to an external site.) Retrieved from http://libraryofprofessionalcoaching.com/wp-app/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Generational-Age-Groups1.pdf (Links to an external site.)
Peer 2: Darris Altson
I agree that Millennials tend to like to think that they are in control of their own careers, and I think they feel that way because they have seen with their parents that these companies do not really care about their workers so why should workers care about being loyal to a company? It is dog eat dog in the great rat race. That makes me want to stay out of it because I hate that kind of mentality and I find myself longing for an old world values culture, where loyalty does matter and commitment does mean something. I think young people are afraid of commitment, whether it is to a job or to another person, and this to me means trouble for the future. But I agree, it is hard for people of two different generations to understand one another as there are so many events that have impacted them on cultural levels in different ways, and Benjamin (2016) shows this plays out in workplace behaviors.
References
Benjamin, T. (2016). Generational characteristics of the workplac (Links to an external site.)e (Links to an external site.). (Links to an external site.) Houston Chronicle. Retrieved from http://www.chron.com/
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