If it is hard to get people from various generations to reach any agreement, it is even harder to do so within a corporation. Cristina Simón, professor at the Instituto de Empresa (IE) in Madrid, has identified and analyzed the four generations that currently make up the corporate work force. Her study is called, “Generation Y and the Labor Market: Models for HR Management.” Gayle Allard, another member of the IE staff, collaborated on the project along with Adecco, a company that supplies temporary workforce services.
In an interview with Universia-Knowledge@Wharton, Simón explains the differences between groups of workers, which she identifies as ‘traditional workers,’ ‘baby boomers,’ ‘generation X’ and ‘generation Y.’ She also suggests key steps for enabling a twenty-first century corporation to successfully overcome the generational duel that takes place between traditional workers and more recent arrivals.
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