The Future Challenge of Millennial Workers

After you read this chapter, you will be able to understand the future challenges of millennial workers, internationalization and globalization trends, the changing of demographic structure, and the employment problem of millennial workers, as well as use SWOT analysis to discuss management issues.

Pay/Salary/Wage and Benefits

After you read this chapter, you will be able to understand the importance of pay/salary/wage and benefits for employees, realize the approaches to propose the salary negotiation, realize the approaches to design a salary structure, apply the equity theory to understand the thoughts of the employees for the salary and benefits, and understand the focus and perceptions about salary and benefits of Millennial Generation workers.

What Is the Millennial Generation?

After you read this chapter, you will be able to understand the conceptions of generation and know the definition and attitudes of Millennial. The purpose of this book is to explore the new generation—the Millennial Generation—in the workplace. This generation has a new way of thinking, so Millennials differ from other generations. Therefore, this chapter defines the term “Millennial Generation” and discusses their attitudes.

Promotion

After you read this chapter, you will be able to understand how to carry out the performance appraisal, the content about promotion, performance standard, and the relationship between promotion and performance appraisal.

Recruiting

After you read this chapter, you will be able to understand the definition, approaches, and sources of recruitment, and understand a lot of the recruitment processes. When an employer, human resource department, and the recruiter interview workers, what works do the employer, human resource department, and the recruiter should perform? This chapter will also develop the checklist about recruitment, understand the issues which the Millennial pay more attention to, and understand the issues which the recruiter side pays more attention to. This chapter is the first issue in this section. The author considers that how to progress with recruitment, what are the steps in recruitment, and what criteria are considered as standards for recruitment. In addition, at the end of this chapter, this book discusses the important issues to be concerned about when setting out to recruit a Generation Y worker.

Training and Development

After you read this chapter, you will be able to understand the importance for training and development in the companies and organizations, understand the content of the training and development, understand how to carry out the training and development, and understand what the training and development should be provided by the company to the Millennial Generation workers.

Career Development

After you read this chapter, you will be able to understand the importance for career development, understand how to plan the career, know the career planning model and career process, and realize the Millennial workers' viewpoint for career development.

The Important Issues for Millennial Workers

After you read this chapter, you will be able to understand the important issues for Millennial Generation and their behavior in the workplace, the contents of interpersonal relation and the viewpoints of Millennial Generation, and the contents of communication skill and communication models. You will also be able to understand communication styles, the viewpoints of Millennial Generation, and the contents of conflict management and conflict styles.

The Differences between the Millennial Generation and Other Generations

After you read this chapter, you will be able to know the characteristics of Millennials, understand the behaviors of Millennials in the workplace, understand the Millennials viewpoints for his/her jobs, compare Millennial to other generations, and find the differences among different generations.