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Strawser, Michael G. – Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2021
Communication practitioners, especially those who facilitate training and development workshops, should focus on generational differences as a subset of their communication training efforts. This article positions the multigenerational workplace and generational differences as a relevant topic for communication trainers and provides cursory…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Training, Organizational Communication, Work Environment
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Finkel, Ed – Community College Journal, 2022
Real differences do exist among the generations in terms of attitudes, behaviors, expectations and motivations that have an impact at work and in the classroom, in spheres of activity like building teams, dealing with change, motivating and managing, and teaching. But community college leaders and other administrators and faculty can leverage…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Leaders, Older Adults
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Guth, Douglas J. – Community College Journal, 2018
Life in the new workplace means effectively supervising employees hailing from a variety of diverse backgrounds. As people are living and working longer than ever before, administrators also are learning to manage a mix of generations housed together under one roof. The modern office is now home to baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Generational Differences, School Personnel, Employees
Longman, Phillip; Mundy, Liza; Black, Rachel; Bornfreund, Laura; Byrum, Greta; Cramer, Reid; Gangadharan, Seeta Peña; Guernsey, Lisa; Lieberman, Abbie; Lynn, Barry; McCarthy, Mary Alice – New America, 2015
Most of the social and economic policies in the U.S. do not explicitly address or take into account the growing importance of families as sources of human capital and determinants of individual success. Even the small subsets of programs that we conventionally frame as part of "family policy" are often based on long-defunct assumptions…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Social Indicators, Public Policy, Family Programs
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Houck, Christiana – Performance Improvement, 2011
This article looks at virtual mentoring programs through a lens of generational differences, technological preferences, and communication styles. Best practices are framed to address the need to prepare the incoming millennials to lead the workforce as baby boomers exit. After a review of the literature, ideas are culled to apply the theory to a…
Descriptors: Mentors, Interpersonal Relationship, Virtual Classrooms, Baby Boomers
Dillon, Bobbie – National Association of College and University Business Officers (NJ3), 2011
In February 2009, the National Association of College and University Business Officers, with generous support from Aetna, Inc., brought together business officers from a wide range of academic institutions to identify practical solutions to the challenges facing their campuses. The specific objective of the group: to develop an understanding of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Colleges, Campuses, Work Environment