Managing the millennials : discover the core competencies for managing today's workforce

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    • Espinoza, Chip
    • Ukleja, Mick

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Managing the millennials : discover the core competencies for managing today's workforce

Chip Espinoza, Mick Ukleja

Wiley, c2016

2nd ed

  • : hardcover

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内容説明

The Builders, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials-all make up workforces in every type of industry all over the world. The generational gaps are numerous and distinctly different between each age group, and Millennials have gotten a reputation for being particularly unique and often challenging. In this updated and expanded Second Edition of the popular guidebook Managing the Millennials, you'll see how Millennial traits are the same around the globe. In fact, Millennials are more alike than any other generation before them due in large part to rapid advances in technology that let us share more experiences together. These same rapid advances are also redefining the fundamental ways businesses operate, and this revised edition includes the international perspective today's valuable leadership needs to attract and retain these high-performing workers with very different values and expectations. With fresh research and new real-world examples, the powerhouse authorial team reexamines the differences between how different generations work today in businesses around the world, with insightful exploration into what makes the Millennial generation so different from the ones that came before. The authors reveal nine specific points of tension commonly arising from clashing value systems among generations and prescribe nine proven solutions to resolve conflict and build communication, nurture collaborative teams, and create long-lasting relationships among colleagues of every age. A wealth of informative tables and convenient end-of-chapter summaries make this an invaluable everyday reference to support you: Making the most informed decisions with up-to-date, research-based guidance on getting the most from twenty-something employees Executing solutions to the most common obstacles to younger workers engaging and learning from the people who manage them Enhancing your skills as a job coach with practical tips and hands-on tools for coaching Millennials, including concrete action steps for overcoming roadblocks Complete with case studies of real managers and employees interacting in every area of business, enlightening analysis of performance and behavioral patterns across generations, and easy-to-use techniques you can use right away to improve your organization, Managing the Millennials, Second Edition gives you everything you need to inspire your entire workforce to new levels of productivity.

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Foreword Gabrielle Jackson Bosche xv Introduction Close Encounters with a Different Kind xix Part I The Millennial Phenomenon 1 Chapter 1 The Millennials and You 3 The Generations at Work 4 What in the World is Happening? 8 The Coming Job Gap 12 You're So Special 13 Bridging the Gap 15 Chapter 2 Aren't We All Just the Same? 17 So What? isn't Every Generation the Same? 17 Who Gets to Do the Sense-Making and Set the Rules? 24 Chapter 3 The Effective Managers versus the Challenged Managers 27 Mind-Set 30 Following Up with Human Resources 33 Chapter 4 The Points of Tension between Managers and Millennials 35 Perceptual Positioning 37 The Consequence of Inexperience40 Part II Discover the Core Competencies for Managing Today's Workforce 53 Chapter 5 Be Flexible: When Letting Them Have It Their Way Makes Sense 55 Flexing with the Autonomous The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Work-Life Blending 56 The Bias of Experience 57 Psychological Contract 60 Learning from Our Success 61 Learning from Our Failure 62 Best Practice 62 Chapter 6 Create the Right Rewards: Rewarding the Right Things in the Right Ways 65 Incenting the Entitled The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Reward 66 The Bias of Experience 66 Rewarding the Right Way 68 Rewarding the Right Things 69 Keeping Them Informed 70 Learning from Our Success 71 In a Nutshell 73 Chapter 7 Put Their Imagination to Work: They are at the Head of the Creative Class 75 Cultivating the Imaginative The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Self-Expression 76 The Bias of Experience 76 Creativity and Competitive Advantage 78 Managerial Best Practices 79 Let Them Know What Happened with Their Ideas 80 Let Them Have Fun 81 In a Nutshell 82 Chapter 8 Build a Relationship: First Them, Then You 85 Engaging the Self-Absorbed The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Attention 86 The Bias of Experience 88 Best Practices 88 So What are Some Barriers to Engaging? 91 Something to Think About 95 The Transfer of Tacit Knowledge Will Not Happen without Building a Relationship 95 Chapter 9 Be Positive When Correcting: Fragile, Handle with Care 99 Disarming the Defensive The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Achievement 100 The Bias of Experience 103 Best Practices 104 Learning from Success 106 In a Nutshell 110 Chapter 10 Don't Take Things Personally: It is Not Always about You 113 Self-Differentiating from the Abrasive The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Informality 114 The Bias of Experience 115 Self-Differentiating Is about You 117 Know Where They End and You Begin 118 Separateness and Togetherness 119 Know the Difference between Your Role and Your Person 119 Beware of Triangulating 119 Think about Your Presence 120 Confessions 121 In a Nutshell 122 Chapter 11 Show Them the Big Picture: The Big Picture Does Not Exist Until You Help Them See It 125 Broadening the Myopic The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Simplicity 126 The Bias of Experience 127 Learning from Success 128 Learning from Failures 128 Start with Something Easy 129 The Consequential Thinking Model 130 The Five Whys 131 Please, Do Share 132 In a Nutshell 134 Chapter 12 Include the Details: Ambiguity is Their Kryptonite 137 Directing the Unfocused The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Multitasking 138 The Bias of Experience 139 Directing? I Thought They Wanted Autonomy 140 Giving Direction 141 Learning from Success 142 Learning from Our Failures 143 In a Nutshell 145 Chapter 13 Make It Matter to Them: They Want to Know "Why" before "What" 147 Motivating the Indifferent The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Meaning 148 The Bias of Experience 150 Hierarchy of Capabilities 152 Learning from Success 155 Learning from Our Failures 156 In a Nutshell 157 Part III Your Competitive Advantage 159 Chapter 14 Building a Millennial-Friendly Culture 161 Identify Your All-Stars and Give Them a Platform 161 Involve Your Managers in the Conversation 163 Ask Millennials 163 Suspend Organizational Bias 164 Promote the Core Competencies for Managing Today's Workforce 165 The Generational Rapport Inventory 166 Chapter 15 Mentoring Millennials 169 Challenges Millennials Face in the Workplace 171 Strategies for Overcoming Roadblocks at Work 172 The Seven Skills for Overcoming Roadblocks 177 In the End 179 Acknowledgments 181 Notes 183 Index 191

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