HROB 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Baby Boomers, Guanxi, Organizational Commitment

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour
• Course: HROB 2100
• Professor: Saad Hossain

Document Summary

Baby boomers (born mid-1940s to mid 1960s: achievement and material success are very important, sense of accomplishment and social recognition rank high with them, pragmatists who believe ends can justify the means, loyalty to career. Generation x (born mid-1960s to late 1970s: value flexibility, life options and achievement of job satisfaction, family and relationships are very important, less willing to make personal sacrifices for the sake of their employer than boomers. Millennials (born between 1979 and 1994: high expectations; seek meaning in their work, tend to be questioning, electronically networked and entrepreneurial, socially responsible. 2011 census findings on newcomers: 20. 6% of canadian population is foreign born vs 12. 9% for usa, 46% of toro(cid:374)to"s populatio(cid:374, 40% of va(cid:374)(cid:272)ou(cid:448)er"s populatio(cid:374, 22. 6% of mo(cid:374)treal"s populatio(cid:374) 2011 census findings on language: 20% spoke neither english nor french as their first language. More cooperative negotiating style when dealing with one another. Greater sense of family in the workplace. Enforcement relies on institutional law: north american.