Here Wall Street Journal blogger Gary Hamel portrays corporate employees in the Facebook generation (Generation F) as harbingers of a new sort of meritocratic Utopia. Be sure to click into the article (below, next to the paper clip) and check out his list of "12 work-relevant characteristics of life online."
The Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500
By Gary Hamel
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. Sure, it’s a buyer’s market for talent right now, but that won’t always be the case—and in the future, any company that lacks a vital core of Gen F employees will soon find itself stuck in the mud.
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clipped from blogs.wsj.com
