Generation Blend Managing Across the Technology Age Gap [Hardcover]

If you want to engage, motivate, and retain young workers without driving the veteran workers away, Generation Blend can help you. This timely book explores how generational attitudes toward technology affect issues as diverse as recruitment and retention, employee training, management decision-making, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and work/life balance. Looking to solve the puzzle of productivity across the technology age gap? Start with Generation Blend.Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Chapter 1. Introduction.

Technology as the Locus of Conflict.

Technology as the Enabler of Potential.

Why Should We Care about Generational Attitudes Toward Technology.

Generation Blend.

Chapter 2. Changing Workforce, Changing Work.

The Looming Skills Shortage.

How Technology Changes Work.

Disruptive Impacts of Technology.

Outlook.

Chapter 3. Understanding the Generations.

Life Stages and Generations.

Generational Analysis as a Predictive Methodology.

Generation vs. Generalization: A Few Caveats.

What is a Generational Attitude?

Generational Attitudes and Workstyles.

Outlook.

Chapter 4. Older Workers- Blending Experience with Technology.

The Silent Generation.

Older Boomers.

Growing Up Pre-Digital.

Technology Issues Facing Older Workers.

Why It Matters: Capturing Knowledge.

Outlook.

Chapter 5. Younger Workers- With Great Potential Comes Great Expectations.

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