Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies

One of the biggest challenges facing managers today is learning how to effectively lead a multigenerational work-force. Currently, many organizations have four generations of employees working alongside one another. Employees from different generations may have varying expectations of what they want (or “value”) from the workplace, both from an intrinsic and extrinsic standpoint, and therefore may approach work, and how they prefer to be motivated, differently. This increased generational diversity in the workforce has prompted scholars to offer both anecdotal as well as some empirical evidence addressing these differ-ences. Despite the increased attention being placed on gen-erational diversity, there are still questions that remain. One highly debated topic is whether generational cohorts actu-ally desire different things in a work context or if, in fact, i