The generation of kids raised without knowing the value of a good spanking, and who never heard the mantra “children are to be seen and not heard,” is hitting the work force. And times will be changing.
The traditional “top down” management style our parents worked under won’t cut it with Gen X and Gen Y workers, which should signal behavior changes in boardrooms across the country. Rasmussen Reports conducted a survey for Hudson recruiting consultants, and reports that 24 percent of younger workers want feedback at least once a week, if not daily. Only 11 percent of the traditionalists — workers born between 1928 and 1945 — seek that amount of contact with their supervisors. A staggering 81 percent of younger workers want direct access to senior management, compared with 76 percent of baby boomers. Also, 26 percent of the younger workers today would want to socialize with their boss at least once a month, compared with 17 percent of traditionalists.
Henry Ford didn’t have that kind of time to spend on the manufacturing line.
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Can you hear me now?
I try to avoid senior management at all costs. I would avoid my direct supervisor as well, but since they are right across the hall from me that is near impossible.
Mfg. companies have always been run from the back door up to the front office.The old ways of top down management are melting away, at least in those companies that want to survive.When management becomes willing and able to invlove unskilled employees in the decisions affecting their own jobs, those companies thrive.
“The generation of kids raised without knowing the value of a good spanking”
Your daily dose of GOP perversion I suppose.
God Angie, you really are a K-state graduate aren’t you. “A staggering 81 percent of younger workers want direct access to senior management, compared with 76 percent of baby boomers.” There’s probably no difference statistical difference, depending on the sample size; and the stats are meaningless anyway, because baby boomers are OLD and new workers are YOUNG. K-e-e-e-e-e-riste. If you’re a sample of the new college educated conservative, god help us. In addition, you’re an only child of a baby boomer, aren’t you; and you’ve never been spanked — Right?
Dorking wants to spank Angie?Hmmm….
I’ve got nothing against spanking. Abuse and spanking are two different things.
The work ethic and values of many kids today is unbelieveable. Sure, we need to be told that we’re doing a good job, that can come in many ways, a merit raise is a good way to do that. However, more companies are interested in paying less for their jobs then complain because they expect quality. Can’t have it both ways.
Sigh……
I’d earlier suspected it and this from you confirms it Angie. You are no more than a little right wing shill. Your entire header breaks down to “Do your job and shuddup about it!” You are hereby excused from botherig us further and invited to go have a coffee with values boy Brentie to discuss O’Reilly T culture warrior strategy.
By the way hon? Your reference to Henry Ford is in error. I’m not surprised here. To YOU Ford is just an industrilalist name. You demonstrate your ignorance about the man. Henry Ford knew that he had to treat his workers fair and pay them a good wage.
I call it good news that younger workers are more demanding. Employers need to be frequently reminded that they are nothing without their workers.
The Ritalin Generation as they are more commonly being called now.
How about another thread like,
Younger workers don’t want to have to work 2 or 3 jobs just to get by.
That would be more verifiable than “younger workers wanting to be heard.”
Will…
Good title for a thread… How bout expand it with, “single parents dont want to work 2 or 3 jobs…”
I had an interesting discussion this weekend with an older man who got laid off from the company he was with for years. He got laid off because the company was sold, the old owner was gone, the new owners (out of state, big multimillion dollar company) put a younger manager into place and he laid off all of the senior workers. The reason, they were too old to produce what the younger ones can for their price.
This type of mentality is becoming prevalent in today’s society, YET, management of all ages, dont want to work with the “grunts in the field” to adjust procedures to increase productivity.
I noticed the same thing when i worked at Raytheon, people in Mahogany Row or Darth Vader’s Helmet were very disconnected from the guys on the floors.
Joe, at least soem of us parents made sure our kids were smacked instead of Ritalined.
Joe,
My kids understand spankings.
My kids DONT understand medication.
I refused to allow my parents to get me tested for any of those “made up disorders”. People wanted to call me hyperactive or ADHD or ADD or ABCDEFG or what ever. Hell, look at me now, i am as productive in society as the rest of you…
I will do the same thing with my kids (unless it is “real”). They wont be on any of these mood altering drugs (hum… unless they experiment with some in high school)…
Discipline is cheaper, easier and more effective than drugs of any type. Plus they grow up to be better, more out going people.
Spank your kids, its better for them…
And you can get a good 2×4 real cheap!
Tony – you don’t have ADD; you have JPN – Just Plain Nots!
There ARE cases for medication but they are rare. If a kid can sit and watch a movie he likes he is NOT ADD/ADHD.
C’mon everyone, this article is clearly Angie’s desperate cry to get some older sugardaddy to give her a good spanking. Conservatives have to give out little signals about their fetishes. Perhaps we can have a compromise. Some closeted male Republican here can dress up Angie as a little male page worker who spilled some coffee on an important internet sex predator bill and she must be punished.
Doug,
That was crude and rude.
Doug, let’s not get too personal with the lady.Other than that, it was a sarcastically funny post.
I’m interested in knowing as probably how Angie feels about it herself as an intern.Do you fit in the 81%?
I’m interested in knowing as probably how Angie feels about it herself as an intern.Do you fit in the 81%?
I’m interested in knowing as probably how Angie feels about it herself as an intern.Do you fit in the 81%?
I’m interested in knowing as probably how Angie feels about it herself as an intern.Do you fit in the 81%?
Man you people really need to educate yourself more about ADD.
Good grief. Angie writes an interesting fluff piece and suggests that boardrooms need to adapt to younger workers. For that she gets called a “right wing shill”. I guess showing a modicum of common sense does put you at risk for that label.
Another road map to success for businesses and communities that actually WANT younger workers is Richard Florida’s “Rise of the Creative Class”.
Maybe the hostility of older workers toward younger workers is why more and more young folks choose to be entrepreneurs instead of cube rats.
It would be a good thing to remember that someday, we will likely be working for them instead of them working for us.
Paybacks can be such a bitch….
I’m astounded that no one here has yet mentioned the work of Rebecca Ryan and NextGeneration Consulting.
She is the national expert on the subject, and has very worthwhile things to say about integrating three or four generations in the workplace.
She also has great things to say about recruiting and retaining young people in your communities. And even better advise to SMALL towns about how to stop the drain of young people.
She also backs it all up with research.
But of course, it is so much easier to whine about young people leaving the state or community. Besides, if anyone in Kansas listened to the truth about the subject, they would have to change some things in their communities.
Hehehehe. When monkeys fly.
We’d rather do the same things over and over and expect different results.
http://www.nextgenerationconsulting.com/
She also has a link there to “hot jobs-cool communities”. She says to have young people stay or return to a community, you either need “hot jobs” or you need to be a “cool community”.
Her research has produced a list of the characteristics of such jobs and such communities.
Hell, she has given us all a RECIPE for success.
But in Kansas, we’d rather fail doing it “our way” than succeed by doing things the right way.
Ok, how did the order of my posts get reversed?
blog gnomes?
The Ryan post was BEFORE the Florida post?
WTF?
Someone is hacking the system. That’s the only viable explanation.
Someone is hacking the system. That’s the only viable explanation.This blog needs better security.
The problem is that way too many people have been brought up under “helicopter parents”. Mommy and Daddy have always been hovering right over them, making sure everything goes just great for them and that they will never face a hard day in their life. They always want direct answers to everything. People don’t realize that not everyone needs to know everything. There is a reason that you are at the bottom of the totem pole. Quite frankly there are some people that just aren’t that important. If you find that hard to comprehend, then too bad. Suck it up. It is, in effect, a chain of command. You are at the bottom of the chain. You don’t need to talk to the boss. He is way to busy with things that matter.
As for those who keep bringing up that Angie needs to be spanked, I’m guessing that this is probably the only non-porn website you look at. Congrats. Now get out from in front of your computer and get a life. That is all.
It is my understanding that “helicopter parents” are an increasing problem for colleges and universities; mom and dad calling all officials incessantly to complain about how their student is not being treated fairly, etc.
In the case of my wife and me, our chopper was grounded before our daughters were in school, not to mention afterwards. With reference to college, it is our thought that a big part of “going away to school” is learning how to fight one’s own battles, dealing with roommates, etc. The one error we made with our younger was not emphasizing to her the importance of getting to the student health center when first ill; her failure to do so her second semester, first year, cost her dearly, given the stringent attendance policies of the college she attends. Oh, well, she learned from that, too.
Geez, poor Ang . . .
You can almost hear her pen scratching in her notebook–”note to self: no more references to spanking. It drives the pervs crazy.”
Doug,I’ve actually known (not in the biblical sense)a few people who just love to get spanked. Interesting thing is that they were all spanked a lot as kids. Parents who spank their kids frequently should consider that possible outcome.
Typical of kids to tell you to go to hell when they are 16, 17, and 18 yrs.old.They think that they know it all and you can’t tell them anything new and want out on their own but when they reach above the age of 21 yrs. old they want to move back in and act like they don’t know anything, typical of kids.
“Angie let go of the boss’s shirt tail, you are going to rip it!”
ahh… leave Angie alone… shes the noobie, let her have some fun…