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Engaging the new generation employee
Engaging the new generation has been one of the more if not most challenging areas in modern organizations for people managers. How do you communicate with a 23 year old who has every part of his body wired (and therefore rendered himself incommunicable)?
He may be into his own brand of “multitasking” ---how chatting on Facebook/Orkut with his latest sensation: a Midwestern country girl now based in DC and catching up with his mom over his newly acquired mobile set; now adding final touches to his project report to be sent to his overseas bosses in Connecticut and having a slice of pizza for a quickie lunch.
Organizational support systems must facilitate building personal capabilities and not just skills. The idea is to achieve goals and add value to the organization. Productivity is indeed the key word and as long as our techie Shyamlal Chaturvedi aka Sams manages to achieve this it shouldn’t be anybody’s business, how much decibel transmits through his i-pod plugged into his ears to keep him in good cheer or for that matter what his bill at the nightclub comes out to be during the weekends.
Engaging the new generation employee is thus the second level in the cycle:
This is in fact a sequel to the challenges in classroom teaching or training. Young people have been exposed to virtually everything and anything. Nothing seems to excite them .The word called “euphoria” shall soon be a thing of the past. The act of inspiring (a la a great teacher inspires) is a task twenty times more difficult than what it used to be.
To deal with this therefore requires a concerted effort by academia and industry. When can we have some genuine collaboration?
He may be into his own brand of “multitasking” ---how chatting on Facebook/Orkut with his latest sensation: a Midwestern country girl now based in DC and catching up with his mom over his newly acquired mobile set; now adding final touches to his project report to be sent to his overseas bosses in Connecticut and having a slice of pizza for a quickie lunch.
Organizational support systems must facilitate building personal capabilities and not just skills. The idea is to achieve goals and add value to the organization. Productivity is indeed the key word and as long as our techie Shyamlal Chaturvedi aka Sams manages to achieve this it shouldn’t be anybody’s business, how much decibel transmits through his i-pod plugged into his ears to keep him in good cheer or for that matter what his bill at the nightclub comes out to be during the weekends.
Engaging the new generation employee is thus the second level in the cycle:
This is in fact a sequel to the challenges in classroom teaching or training. Young people have been exposed to virtually everything and anything. Nothing seems to excite them .The word called “euphoria” shall soon be a thing of the past. The act of inspiring (a la a great teacher inspires) is a task twenty times more difficult than what it used to be.
To deal with this therefore requires a concerted effort by academia and industry. When can we have some genuine collaboration?
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