A Systems View Across Time and Space
Table 1 Women during the baby boomers generation, Generation X, and Generation Y
From: The contribution of technology in business growth: the case of Greek ladies
Categories | Baby boomers generation 1946 to 1965 | Generation X 1966 to 1985 | Generation Y 1986 to 2000 |
|---|---|---|---|
Career | Important in life cycle | Challenge | Mobility |
Leadership | Questioning/contesting | Overseeing | Respecting |
Yearning for technology | Ruling | Enjoying | Using/applying |
Future | Creating for tomorrow | Unsure/pessimistic | Optimistic |
Evaluation/feedback | Formal/documented | Continuous/non-formal | Non-formal, on demand |
Inducement/motivation | Acknowledging participation and merit | Loose adherence to norms/independence/individualism | Team-work, collaboration |
Professional virtues | Willing to serve, communicate, provide extra outcomes | Adaptive/knowledge of technology/non-conformist | Collective action, insistence, technological specialization, competent |
Professional weaknesses | Bureaucratic/difficulties in managing conflicts/Intolerant to different views | Anxious/lack of communication skills/cynical | In need of supervision and managing, no experience in interpersonal relationships |
Work/personal life balance | ‘Workaholics’/living to work | Balancing work and personal life | Flexible working hours/predominance of personal life/‘work is not everything’ |