Generation Article Response

This article made light of the age diversity within a workplace, multiple generations of the same family for example. This is something I have seen at my summer job and did not register before. I work at a little store and one family has three generations working there. However, though I have seen this before I had not given it much thought. After reading this article, I found myself pondering the idea of many different ways to communicate amongst generations. It is fairly accurate that the baby boomers are the ones who work hard; where as, the newer generations procrastinate much more.  It was very interesting to read about the many differences among these generations.

As I start teaching, I must remember that I will be seeing this happen as I discuss with colleagues who are from one generation and teach students from another. Many students will have different situations at home and their many guardians will range in the generation they are from. I must remember the key areas of communication when I am teaching, remaining patient with those of different generations because we all just want the same for the students.  There will be various ways in which faculty, students, parents, guardians, and colleagues will wish to communicate due to which generation they are, and I will have to keep this in mind. This article was very helpful in reminding me of the realization that there are many generations present and they are all unique. It has helped me brainstorm ideas of ways in which I can handle this in my classroom.  

This is in response to Greg Hammil's article entitled "Mixing and Managing Four Generations of Employees." http://www.fdu.edu/newspubs/magazine/05ws/generations.htm