ABSTRACT
Academic research in management has noted that generations are an ideal taxonomy for grouping individuals as this creates a context for common attitudes and behaviors at work (Dencker, Joshi & Martocchio 2007, 2008) while sociologists note that generational groups create unique identities and collective sets of memories (Griffin 2004, Schuman & Scott 1989, 2004). Through any of these lenses, generations can be viewed as an approximation of the collective set of attitudes, behaviors, ideals, memories, and life experiences that will certainly affect
work-life. While the exact definition of a “generation” has been of some debate (see Chapter 1), the most common and accepted definition is a concept bound to the realm of kinship and descent or a cohort of individuals of similar exposures and experiences (Kertzer 1983).
