Book description
A valuable tool for anyone who wants to effectively manage and
motivate twenty-something workers
Many books are being published on how to manage employees of the
"millennial" generation, but the solutions offered are
anecdotal at best. Backed by years of serious research, Managing
the Millennials provides managers of all ages with specific
recommendations and tools for engaging this burgeoning
demographic-some 78 million strong. Each chapter shares relevant
interviews, case studies, and offers research-backed ideas and best
practices to help any organization and their leaders address the
challenges generational diversity presents.
Answering the perplexing question of how does one lead and manage
younger employees, this book
- Offers research-based guidance on getting the most from
twenty-something employees
- Answers common questions and outlines practical solutions for
building better relationships between the younger workers and the
people who manage them
- Includes a Special Offer with immediate benefit to readers:
access to the authors' Generational Rapport Inventory (GRI), a
tool that measures a managers competencies and identifies
strengths and weaknesses in dealing with Millennials.
- Accompanied by an associate web site, leadingthemillennials.
com, offering a weekly blog addressing generational diversity
issues in the workplace
Insightful and practical, Managing the Millennials is a
valuable tool for millions of managers globally whose job it is to
manage and motivate their twenty-something workers.
Chip Espinoza is Chief Executive Officer of GeNext
Consulting, a subsidiary of LeadershipTraQ. He teaches Leadership in
the Hobbs Leadership Program at California State University, Long
Beach. He consults to a range of clients from the Boeing Company to
the Special Olympics. He frequently keynotes at corporate events,
conferences, and organizations across the country on his research
about Millennials and their value to organizations. Chip's doctoral
dissertation is on the subject of managing Millennials.
Mick Ukleja, PhD, is the founder and President of
LeadershipTraQ, a leadership consulting firm. He cofounded the Ukleja
Center for Ethical Leadership at California State University, Long
Beach, which promotes ethics across the curriculum. He is the coauthor
of Who Are You? What Do You Want?: Four Questions That Will Change
Your Life and The Ethics Challenge: Strengthening Your
Integrity in a Greedy World. He has worked with entrepreneurs
and corporate executives of both profit and non-profit organizations.
He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for The Astronauts
Memorial Foundation at the Kennedy Space Center, which oversees the
Center for Space Education.
Craig D. Rusch, PhD, is Professor of Anthropology at Vanguard
University in Costa Mesa, California. Craig holds a PhD in social
networks from the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Rusch has been
published in leading academic journals within his field including the
American Anthropologist and the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. He
specializes in cognitive science and organizational culture and
psychology.
