Bridging The Boomer-Xer Gap - Creating Authentic Teams For High Performance At Work

"Watercooler gossip and behind-closed-doors whispers paint a disturbing picture of a contentious workplace in which generational warfare is raging between the 40 million Gen X workers and the decision-making Boomers who are taking charge of corporate America. Shattering long-standing assumptions, this book explodes the stereotypes portraying Gen Xers as slackers, loners, and self-absorbed job-shifters and exposes the real truth about how Boomers can build a team-based business landscape for the twenty-first century." Backed by evidence culled from nearly 400 surveys - rich in detail from such organizations as Boeing Aircraft, the Environmental Protection Agency, and Champion Mortgage - the authors offer a new model for managing the integration of Boomers and Xers for maximum productivity and job satisfaction. They identify values that unite and those that divide the generations, and translate their research into concrete practices and new management strategies that show how to accomodate these differences.