I am a Career Counsellor, and I work with youth (ages 15-30). I have a comment on generations, and how they value and look at work. The “Boomers”, I’ve come to learn, are often described as being highly loyal to the orgranization/company they work for. This generation sometimes looks at the echoing generations that followed as not being as loyal, in that we tend to change jobs and careers with the wind; but that is not, in my opinion, the whole story. I personaly feel like a very loyal person, but my loyalties sit, not with my organization or ambiguous company mission, but rather with MY team, MY office, MY family, and MY friends. If I am not alone here, then it is organizational management as a whole that may need to be restructured. No more dusty mission statements sitting stagnent in the obligatory “Policy and Procedure” binder; that doesn’t work, and it certainly doesn’t motivate. I don’t have all the answers, hey I’m new to this work, but I think a change in thinking and organizational structure is a start. Okay, rant over, more later.

Alison.