ar-old can literally touch his or her mouse pad and travel from web site to web site around the world (Riley, 1998)" "Generation X'ers take longer to make job choices. They look upon a job as temporary instead of as a career, partly because they want to keep their options open. They are always looking to jump ship when they can upgrade their situation. They will often leave a job at the hint of a better position(Losyk 29-44)". States Bob Losyk in his analysis of this new generation. He makes a point of noting that this generation does not expect the loyalties from the companies, with their downsizing, and in turn are not near as loyal to their place of employment. To attract these employees and provide a beneficial work place environment for them many companies are changing their workplace strategies. Where once you were encouraged to bring you children on a specific day to see where you work, then they came up with the idea of workplace child-care, now the employees are being allowed to bring their pets with them to work. These new Generation X'ers are going to change the face of the workplace creating an environment of excitement and innovation. As long as our economy continues to improve this generation will provide us with many new looks to the old standby workplace. People work better with a little stress (Fight or Flight) When humans first appeared on this world, they needed a little stress to survive, to kill the mastodons and live for another season. We really have not changed all that much. Today's workplace requires us to give our best as often as possible. James Kouzes feels that "Opportunities to challenge the status quo and introduce change opens the doors to doing one's best. Challenge is the motivation environment for excellence (Kouzes, Posner 39)". The only exception that needs to be brought out by that is that we need to give people a change to get used to the changes before we introduce more. The major reason for stre...
