Have you ever wondered after all the personality profiles, age or gender profiles and other psychology testing in the workplace, why there seems to be something missing? For years we have put our faith and trust in these personality tests, all of which tend to be the same and produce effectively the same results. Companies use them to determine if new hires fit into the group or the corporate mold. Individuals like them because they confirm what we think of ourselves. Psychology test do serve a purpose, however when one is attempting to find the right person for the job, they do very little to define generational issues.
After 20 years of business consulting, marketing development, training and developing web applications, I have found the one thing that has remained the same; everyone is different. The experts tend to want to put everyone in a single box. You're this color, you go in this box. You're from this part of the world, you go over here or we understand you think like this, so...and so on. As for me the only thing that is consistent is that the older guys always seem to be in control of the younger guys, even back in the soaring DOT.COM world of the '90's. The older guys were in their mid 30's, or older and the younger guys were in their late teens or early twenties. That consistency is called generations. Each generation moves through time at the same pace. Each generation has its opportunity to be the wannabes and graduate to the experts then when they get tired of the race, they retire. Your generation is determined by a multitude of events in your life and your birth date is the divider - another box to put you in so the experts can track you down and sell you stuff.
Methinks differently.
For more information on generational differences in the workplace go to GenerationalProfiles.com
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