CULTURE SHOCK: Surviving Five Generations In One Workplace

“But I need me time!” When faced with a young employee looking at

her disappointedly after being told she needed to work over a holiday, author Dr.

Joanna Dodd Massey did what many Gen X managers do. She thought to herself,

“I’ve worked through every vacation I ever took!” But, instead of reacting, she

paused and found a compromise to serve both the company and her employee.

Americans are experiencing a culture revolution unlike anything we have seen

since the 1960s. Millennials and Gen Z are nearly half of the U.S. population and, as

consumers and employees, they are dramatically changing the way we work. In this

book, Dr. Massey, a communications expert with a Ph.D. in psychology and an MBA,

does a deep dive into the five generations at work, examining how they behave and

why. Using a humorous and candid writing style, Dr. Massey breaks the news to her

cantankerous colleagues that resistance is futile, and they need to change or risk

becoming irrelevant in the not-so-distant future.