Managing Millennials for Dummies

Everything you need to build your next-generation workforce. This field guide shows you how to harness the potential of Millennial workers and safeguard your workplace practices for the modern age. With insight, advice, personal anecdotes, and practical guidance, this book gives you a step-by-step plan for managing Millennials and teaching them how to manage themselves. You'll learn what makes them tick, what drives their desire for instant gratification, where they get their sense of identity from, and more. Best practices from top employers such as Google, Netflix, LinkedIn, and more give real-world models for effective management, while new research on first-wave versus second-wave Millennials gives you insight into the difference between your new hires and more seasoned workers. You'll also learn why flex time and social media are so important to this generation, why dress code is less important than ever to them (and why they might be right), and how flex time affects corporate culture.