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  • Generation X
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    Crisis: Generation X Generation X is the most misunderstood generation to date. Douglas Coupland attempts to make sense of what sense this generation has been left with. Due to high expectations placed upon Generation X, commonly know as "X-ers", by the successful "Baby Boomer" generation. Couplands' writings validate his generation (Generation X) and invalidates the Baby Boomers. Generation X, Shampoo Planet, and Microserfs were written to support the invalidating of the Baby Boomer Generations...
  • Title Generation X
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    Nix The "X" There are a variety of terms from which to choose: The Lost Generation, the MTV Generation, Generation PC, Busters, the Information Generation, the Bitter Bunch, the 13th Generation, Generation Next, the Soundbite Generation... We have been slapped with more stickers than a Deadhead's van. For those of us who grew up on MTV, video games, and microwave dinners, these are far from complimentary terms. My generation doesn t deserve the title "Generation X" because it is an incorrect lab...
  • Generation X
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    I believe that Generation X exists, however, I do not think that everyone in this generation fits the description peddled by the media. The media feels the need to hang labels on each generation and give them each their own characteristics, but I fail to see the reasoning in all the name calling and insults. The media builds the hype about Generation X, therefore making typical stereotypes seem overwhelmingly to the generation. So, when I am asked the question, "Does Generation X really exist or...
  • Older Workers
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    Hendrick, Bill. "Baby Bosses: Youth vs. experience doesn't have to be us vs. them". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Monday, 18 April 2005. "Living". Pg. B 1. The article addresses a different side effect of the generation gap between the 79 million baby boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) and Generation X ers (those born between 1965 and 1984). The already-present tension between managers and their subordinates becomes exponentially worse as the age difference between them continues to ...
  • Generation X Two Of The Core Values
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    Team Dynamics and Conflict Resolution The idea that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts is becoming more than simply an adage for many in the workforce. Team based-work has begun to permeate business organizations like never before, and according to the University of Phoenix (2004) teamwork is "Among the more noteworthy and promising approaches for achieving the dual goals of higher productivity and increased worker satisfaction... ". (p. 2) Even as more and more companies shift their...
  • Term Generation X
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    Did you know that you are considered part of the first generation symbolizing the decline of the nation? Generations are labeled all the time by historians, novelists and journalist in an attempt to capture the spirit or essence of an era. But the term Generation X carries all the negativity of propaganda and stereotype. The term Generation X has become a derisive media batch phrase, a snide put-down for those 80 million people who, like me, were born between 1961 and 1981. They are the children...
  • Enrollment In College Programs By Baby Boomers
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    Landlord-tenant law combines three areas of law; 1.) property law 2.) contract law and 3.) negligence law. Colleges nation wide have been reporting strong surges in enrollment largely due to baby boomers returning to school. Baby boomers are Americans born between 1946 and 1964. Soldiers returning from WWII caused a rise in the birth rate of the United States, creating a "boom" which is where the term "baby boom" comes from. There were approximately 76 million baby boomers born during that 18 ye...
  • Needs Of The Aging Baby Boomers
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    Our children are our future; our seniors are our foundation (Wiesel L. 2000). Fifty five million Americans are age fifty five and older, according to the United States Census Bureau, of that number, thirty five million are age sixty five and older. By the year 2030, the sixty five and older population will double to seventy million, and the fastest growing segment of the older population is age eighty five and older. The baby boomer generation will soon reach the retirement age, and expected to ...
  • Gen Y And The Boomers
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    Generation Y: Who Are They? Born during the period 1978-1994, the Gen Y's, 71-80 million strong, now comprise 30% of the US population, a group larger than the Boomers and more than twice the size of the Gen X sector. Not since the first Baby Boomers began their teenage years have so many Americans been adolescence: Now almost half of the Boomers' 71 million children are teenagers, making them the largest teen population in US history. Like their parents, members of Gen Y compose an enormously p...
  • Generation And The Training Materials
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    Submitted to Lyle Johnson Director of Training / Human Resource Shelter Insurance Prepared by Management Undergraduate Student University of Missouri-Columbia Columbia, MO 65201 May 7, 2003 PROPOSAL ABSTRACT We are currently in a time period where there are as many as four different generations of workers in the work force. These different generations bring different values and work ethics to the job every day and often times with generation gaps there are problems between workers of different a...
  • 2003 Whereas The Baby Boomers Generation
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    During the period of 1946 through 1964, America experienced the largest growth rate ever. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, this currently equates to approximately 76 million people and 29% of the United States (U.S.) population, ranging from ages 39 through 57 years of age (Baby Boomer Headquarters [BBH], 2003). Some suggest that the increased birth rate during that period was due to women (whose husbands were returning from the war) choosing to bear children t...

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