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Although stereotyping Generation X is dangerous, knowing how to motivate and manage the more than 40 million workers in this generation is critical. Here are four tips:
1. Help them "train for another job." It might sound ridiculous, but younger employees realize that the old "employment contract" is no more. They know they won't stay with one company for their entire career. So, ironically, the way to keep them is to help them to be more marketable later on. The more they can learn, the more they'll want to stay with your organization.
2. Give them responsibility for projects. Younger workers have more of an independent spirit than Baby Boomers or older workers. Treat this quality as an asset and give them clearly defined goals-and the freedom to achieve them in their own way.
3. Offer constant informal feedback rather than periodic performance reviews. Workers in this generation expect a lot of feedback from managers. Formal, sporadic performance reviews are not timely enough to keep up with the rapid pace younger employees work best at.
4. Offer them access to many different kinds of information. This generation is adept at using different data and technology to bring together elements and solve a problem. Managers who hoard information are stifling the greatest resources younger workers bring to the table.
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