What can social media teach us about managing Gen Y?

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What can social media teach us about managing Gen
Y?

• Title

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How do you view Gen Y?
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Generation Y

• Gen Y are
• Lazy
• Selfish
• Demanding
• Cocky
• Self-absorbed

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As managers, why should you care?
24 and under 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64 65 and over
Whole economy 14 23 24 23 13 2
Local govt 6 20 26 29 16 2
Public sector 6 21 26 29 16 2
Private sector 17 24 23 21 12 2
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How to approach managing Gen Y

• Management styles
• Providing feedback
• Work/life balance
• How they learn

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Management styles
Gen Y Baby Boomers
Democratic Command and control
Flexible Rigidity
Non-linear Linear
Flat Hierarchical
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Feedback

• " millennials have "lived their whole lives on
  a landscape lush with feedback." Yet when they
  enter the workforce, they find themselves "in a
  veritable feedback desert.... It's hard to get
  better at something if you receive feedback on
  your performance just once a year.
• Dan Pink

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Work/life balance

• What do you believe in?
• Blurring of work/life
• Friendship and solidarity
• Flexible working

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Learning

• Self directed
• Mentoring
• Collaborative
• Informal

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21st Century Management 3.0

• FW Taylors ideas of management are 100 years old
• Exponential change
• Hyper competition and the need for
• Innovation
• How fast can you create new knowledge?
• How transparent are you?

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Management 3.0

• Openness
• Meritocracy
• Flexibility
• Collaboration
• Build an organisation fit for
• human beings
• http//www.managers.org.uk/gen-y