Posted on 09/03/2013 8:21:15 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Workers believe Gen Y bosses aren’t team players, act like they are entitled and are full of themselves, survey finds
The workers of Generation Y are getting a name for themselves.
Managers from Gen Y are widely perceived as self-entitled and don’t score particularly highly when it comes to being a team player.
Generation Y is defined as people aged between 18 and 32. It finds that they’re moving into management at a rapid pace.
New newly released research from EY, the global firm that includes Ernst & Young LLP suggests 87 percent of Gen Y managers have taken on a new management role in the last five years, compared with 38 percent of older Gen X managers and 19 percent of aging baby boomer managers.
Gen Y workers now accounts for around a third of the American workforce.
The survey found the work group are seen as being ‘entitled and concerned primarily about individual promotion.’
Workers who feel they are owed things from their organization and that their excellence is a given, are less likely to lead teams effectively and advocate for subordinates NBC News reports.
A 2010 study by Paul Harvey, an assistant professor of management at the University of New Hampshire, found that entitled employees are more likely to feel frustrated on the job and to lash out at colleagues.
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Of course there is always quite a bit of diversity in any demographic group, but I will say that my experience has been that Generation Y tends to be unusually immature. They focus on the trivial and lack the ability to see the big picture or to respect the fact that maybe — just maybe — more experienced people know things they don’t.
I am not surprised. The parents of both X and Y generations are baby boomers. But the boomer parents of Y generation were older, more established, and better able to spoil and entitle their children.
I see this in the Y children of my peers. Kids who do not cook, clear tables or load dishwashers when at friend or family get-togethers. Just up and leave to go with friends.
My son is an X, I was very young, and made sure to raise him so that I would not have to deal with neediness for my whole life.
I keep reading words in this article like “entitled” and “owed things”. For some reason I hear Rush Limbaugh talking about every kid on the team who got a trophy for just playing and now these kids are grown up and in the workforce.
This country has turned into a nation of narcissists. I’m glad I’m not having to work for these people. It’s bad enough to have to deal with them in the grocery store.
I really believe this has something to do with growing up while Reagan was president. Maybe a little of Reagan rubbed off.
Shame Gen X is such a small generation.
I have a Gen-X boss (I’m a boomer). She takes a discipline without punishment approach, if that makes any sense.
Fifty trillion dollars in unfunded liabilities.
I don’t think I need to say anything more on behalf of my largely moronic generation.
A 2010 study by Paul Harvey, an assistant professor of management at the University of New Hampshire...
And now you know...
...the rest of the story!
Imagine what it's like if a guy is trying to have a relationship with a female "of this ilk". Is it any wonder the guys have all turned faggoty?
>> The survey found the work group are seen as being ‘entitled and concerned primarily about individual promotion.’ Workers who feel they are owed things from their organization and that their excellence is a given
The big problem is not the expectation of individual reward, but the feeling of entitlement to that reward without earning it FIRST.
>> She takes a discipline without punishment approach, >>if that makes any sense.<<
Not to me (maybe not enough coffee yet). Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
“I see this in the Y children of my peers. Kids who do not cook, clear tables or load dishwashers when at friend or family get-togethers. Just up and leave to go with friends.”
This is because their parents did not teach them to do this. I wonder why they did not then complain later when the kids are like this.
I’m from Generation X and my parents were born during the Great Depression. The baby bust happened because Baby Boomers started aborting their children and gobbling birth control pills. The birth rate plummeted in the early 1970s.
“Strange” that Generation Y is flooding management while older Xers are passed over for promotion as Boomers retire. Maybe their kids are getting the promotions.
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