Generation blend : managing across the technology age gap

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Title:

Generation blend : managing across the technology age gap

Author:

Salkowitz, Rob, 1967-

ISBN:

9780470193969

Personal Author:

Salkowitz, Rob, 1967-

Publication Information:

Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, c2008.

Physical Description:

xv, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Microsoft executive leadership series

Series Title:

Microsoft executive leadership series

General Note:

Series from jacket.

Contents:

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Changing Workforce, Changing Work -- Ch. 3. Understanding the Generations -- Ch. 4. Older Workers: Blending Experience with Technology -- Ch. 5. Younger Workers: With Great Potential Comes Great Expectations -- Ch. 6. Generation X-ecutive: Leadership from the Outside In -- Ch. 7. Reintegrating Older Workers into the Connected Information Workplace -- Ch. 8. Ambassadors of the Future: Turning to Younger Workers for Strategic Insights -- Ch. 9. Across the Digital Age Gap.

Abstract:

"Generation Blend explores how generational attitudes toward technology affect issues as diverse as recruitment and retention, employee training, management decision-making, collaboration, knowledge sharing, work/life balance, and ordinary workday activities."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Older people -- Employment.

Older people -- Attitudes.

Technological innovations.

Technology and older people.

Management.

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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 .