What are the differences between the four workplace generations?
Each generation has lived through certain events and conditions during their formative years. As a result, they each have adopted their very own and unique generational personality that they keep throughout their lives. Traditionalists: Support the institution and put their own needs aside for the better good of the institution. They learned that if they make it more about our society than about themselves, they could get the job done. That’s how they won two world wars, beat back the Great Depression and started so many of our wonderful American institutions. They have always viewed hard work as its own reward. Boomers: Support the institution but want to change it, put their stamp on it and stand out from the crowd. And they’ve done a great job. But if you are trying to stand out from the crowd, the reward landscape is different. They want rewards in the form of pay increases, better offices and fancier titles so that they can be noticed. Gen-Xers: Skeptical of institutions after see
