By Alyssa Rosenberg
Workforce planners should avoid stereotyping the needs and expectations of different generations of federal workers, experts at the Human Capital Management: Federal 2007 conference said on Wednesday.
Younger workers "want to be challenged, and they like to be treated with respect," said John Allison Jr., deputy director for human capital at the Defense Intelligence Agency. "They don't like to be lumped into this category, Generation Y, because it's made up with individuals…. If I address them as a generation, they turn me off."
Their aversion to being treated as a phenomenon rather than as individuals may stem from some of the assumptions about younger workers, including that they are self-centered or lack commitments to organizations or jobs, Allison said.
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