Friday, March 27, 2009

The Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500 (Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0 - WSJ)

The experience of growing up online will profoundly shape the workplace expectations of “Generation F” – the Facebook Generation. At a minimum, they’ll expect the social environment of work to reflect the social context of the Web, rather than as is currently the case, a mid-20th-century Weberian bureaucracy.

If your company hopes to attract the most creative and energetic members of Gen F, it will need to understand these Internet-derived expectations, and then reinvent its management practices accordingly.

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1 comment:

Unknown said...

This was an excellent article. I'm going to pass it along to readers of BDPAtoday in tomorrow's (3/31/2009) edition. Thanx for sharing it with your blog readers!

Have you considered sharing information about BDPA Philadelphia chapter events here as well?

peace, Wayne