Chapter 10, as well as your required resources, address employee attitudes and suggest that an increase in job performance is reliant on job satisfaction. The authors of our text suggest that highly satisfying jobs are more complex, requiring the worker to utilize a variety of skills and to deal with unpredictable situations (i.e. teaching, managing, engineering, etc.), unlike jobs where the work is repetitive and less thought-provoking (general laborers, factory workers, and the like). In addition, the work expectations are suggested to differ based on generations, which may likely also affect job satisfaction.

• Consider the generation you fall into, based on the text:
  • The Traditionalists or Matures
  • The Baby Boomers
  • Generation X
  • Generation Y or the Millennials
  • Generation Z
• Consider your own expectations. Do they align with what the content and outside sources suggest about the characteristics of these generational groups?
• Applying this component (work expectations), consider you own goals for going back to school. Do your goals align with these expectations?
• Do you think your educational/career goals align with the suggestions about job satisfaction? Do you desire to obtain a higher-level thinking career? If so, why? If not, why not?
• After analyzing all of the factors, what do you think the implications might be on an organization’s productivity with the evolving employee expectations, need for work-life balance, and job satisfaction?
  • Do you think we will see changes in the future of how organizations achieve these goals? How?
• Consider a goal you might assign to a group at your work, the organization where you volunteer, or other potential organization. (Examples: (a) to decrease the errors in timecard submissions, or (b) to successfully submit a group project to the instructor.) Applying Chapter 9, what potential strategies would be important to consider to assist a diverse multi-generational team in deciding on possible strategies and successfully meeting the goal?

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Note:  Generation Y or the Millennials

Members of Generation Y, also known as millennials, are verycomfortable with technology and change and worry less aboutjobsecurity and job commitment (Twenge et al., 2010). They like to bechallenged by new opportunities and self-development.Members ofthis generation have seen the devastation that unethical companiessuch as Enron, Tyco, and Arthur Andersen havecaused to families andcareers, so they seem more concerned with an organization’s valuesthan any other factor. They are civicminded and instill a sense ofmoralism into all aspects of their lives (Dries et al., 2008). Theydemand transparency and socialresponsibility from their employers.For example, a PricewaterhouseCoopers (2008) study showed that86% of millennials wouldconsider leaving an employer whosebehavior no longer met their corporate responsibility expectations.

References

Youssef-Morgan, C., & Noon, A. (2017). Industrial/organizational psychology: Second edition[Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/

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The millennial generation is well-known for its transparency when it comes to the career path. To the millennial generation, job performance does not play a significant role in the job satisfaction rates if the firm they work for is not transparent. The expectations of this generation do not align with the general work expectations. If a firm is unethical in some way, they are not afraid to leave in search of another job career…