Five Generations at Work

Sources & Notes

Introduction & Call to Action

1. 1. Deloitte (2021). Managing the Multigenerational Workplace.
2. 2. WEF (2020). How a Multigenerational Workforce is Key to Economic Growth.
3. 3. OECD (2020). Promoting an Age-inclusive Workforce.
4. 4. Daniel Jolles, Odessa Hamilton and Grace Lordan (2023). Generational divides: the do’s and don’ts of generational labels. The California Management Review.
5. 5. London Interdisciplinary School website.
6. 6. Cian O. Morain and Peter Aykens (Gartner researchers) (2023). Employees Are Losing Patience with Change Initiatives. HBR.
7. 7. Olisaokafor, P. (2023). Building intergenerational collaboration and leadership in transforming education systems. Cambridge Partnership for Education.
8. 8. Margaret Heffernan (2023). Success Is More Complicated than One Exceptional Individual. The Financial Times.
9. 9. Bobby Duffy (2021). Generations. Atlantic Books, p. 241 and p. 261.
10. 10. The Seventh Generation principle recurs throughout and is referenced in more detail in the chapter Generations Future.

Defining Our Generations

1. 1. Essays on the sociology of knowledge, Mannheim, K., London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1952. Cited in Lyons, S. and Kuron, L., 2014. Generational differences in the workplace: A review of the evidence and directions for future research. Journal of Organisational Behaviour, 35(S1), pp. S139–S157.
2. 2. The Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis.
3. 3. Chloe Berger (2023). Meet the typical Fortune 500 CEO: A total Gen Xer. Fortune magazine.
4. 4. John Burn-Murdoch ...