Millennials
European University (Barcelona)
Management Skills
Case Study 1:
Mentoring Millennials
Performed by
MBA group A:
Muhammad Umer Razi,
StellaKhaykina.
Mentor:
John Wetherell
November 1, 2012
Index
Introduction …………………………………………………………………. | 3 | Correspondence between Henry Fayol’s managerial functions and mentoring | 4 | How relevant are Fayol’s principles in Millennials’ minds …………………. | 5 | Recommendations to managers on how to work and build teams with Millennials ……………………………………………………………………. | 9 |
Introduction
Each day there are more and more representatives of the generation of Millennials. Today these young people are studying and working hard to obtain all the necessary skills and knowledge to be able to improve on what the older generation is going to hand them over. Theory is important but in 21st century experience is what really values. Business world has come up with a good way of passing the working experience and knowledge to younger colleagues - mentoring. Mentoring is especially important for Millennials because of their psychological dependence on useful advice and sometimes even material help that often comes from their parents, school and university teachers and other “tutors” from the older generation.
Millennials are used to consume rather than create. It may sound awkward, but parents have degenerated Millennials’s competency to think creativity and to be initiative by giving them everything they wanted and doing for anything they needed. That is why many of Millennials are looking for quick techniques and quick results without exceptional effort.
But anyhow there comes a moment in life when Millennials have to do on their own and they realize that they just don’t know how to work and how to gain success themselves. Millennials turn to be in need of help and advice from older generation. And that is where mentoring comes into play. Actually, this type of training is very useful for both
Management Skills
Case Study 1:
Mentoring Millennials
Performed by
MBA group A:
Muhammad Umer Razi,
StellaKhaykina.
Mentor:
John Wetherell
November 1, 2012
Index
Introduction …………………………………………………………………. | 3 | Correspondence between Henry Fayol’s managerial functions and mentoring | 4 | How relevant are Fayol’s principles in Millennials’ minds …………………. | 5 | Recommendations to managers on how to work and build teams with Millennials ……………………………………………………………………. | 9 |
Introduction
Each day there are more and more representatives of the generation of Millennials. Today these young people are studying and working hard to obtain all the necessary skills and knowledge to be able to improve on what the older generation is going to hand them over. Theory is important but in 21st century experience is what really values. Business world has come up with a good way of passing the working experience and knowledge to younger colleagues - mentoring. Mentoring is especially important for Millennials because of their psychological dependence on useful advice and sometimes even material help that often comes from their parents, school and university teachers and other “tutors” from the older generation.
Millennials are used to consume rather than create. It may sound awkward, but parents have degenerated Millennials’s competency to think creativity and to be initiative by giving them everything they wanted and doing for anything they needed. That is why many of Millennials are looking for quick techniques and quick results without exceptional effort.
But anyhow there comes a moment in life when Millennials have to do on their own and they realize that they just don’t know how to work and how to gain success themselves. Millennials turn to be in need of help and advice from older generation. And that is where mentoring comes into play. Actually, this type of training is very useful for both