I cannot deny that I was groomed from the Gen X and has live through the evolvement of generation change and its metamorphosis, gradually I am also adapting the style and learned the many traits of a Gen Y. Well, you must be wondering what I am talking about?
I was brought up in Hotel business that puts these traits as a dominant criteria to success, contribute more time to the Hotel and more time by the days, months and years, obviously the more the better policy. The more higher you have climbed the hierarchy of the organizational chart, well the more time you need to dedicate to the Hotel. The initiatives to acquire new knowledge and experience were so profound that we have perpetually acquire many multi task skills over accumulated time frame. We were so adamant to success and ensuring that every moves are being observed and acknowledged by the superiors so that the crowning of the next available promotions are secured deservingly. In short, we will do anything to improves ourselves and making the experiences and new skills work to its optimum when the opportunity strikes.
However, these strategies and philosophy has wilted for some and died-off with the new evolution and the emergence of the Gen Y. The new generations are well educated in papers and some are saltishly savoured with overseas degrees and PHD etc. Upon their graduation and accomplishment in tertiary minimums, the Gen Y would have high self esteemed and confidence that resulted them looking forward for an attractively remunerated jobs or at least executive-Manager positions for their first entry in their resume. Well, the Hotels being still very much unchanged and offering the newbies the rank& file positions or for some lucky ones will be enrolled in Management Development Programs as Management trainees . Newbies in Hotel industry is too anxious to achieve their goals and forgotten the relevancy of the acquired experience that are so indispensable to the viability of oneself in this hospitality industry. Everyday is a new explore of the most complicated creature's demands, needs, wants etc. named homo sapiens, the man, the Guest and the employees. The learning experience and acquired experience are always a different subject to me, it just gives you the basis to handle the adversities and the celebrations as well. Well, for sure the educations system of any Hotel School, do not offer this chapter neither any syllables in the academic history.
Gen Y has so much tendencies to hop for any greener pastures as long as they see that there are changes in their employment's perks and remuneration value and forsaking the loyalty and a stable escalation in their career pathment. Gone are the days that the Hotelier slowly waiting for their succession plannings and staying back for the sake of job security and experience acquisition. They have new sets of priorities , that so much linked with a more meaningful word "Lifestyle". They want to work less but work smart and balancing the act of Quality and Quantity . They want to settle down earlier with assets ie. house, nice cars and club memberships etc. They do not believe is hogging in the long hours of work and a tandem monotonous lifestyle that can so much be predicted. They do not let new opportunities to slipped away from their hands but to take every initiatives to grab one as long as it crossed their path.
I noticed and experiencing now, agreeing and accepted the fact that the Gen Y are different, it is no longer an existence of the Gen X that does everything under one roof and not complaining a single word and terming those as an endowment to pay for travelling to the road of success. We are now living in a different era of mindset and lifestyle that we need to acknowledge by constantly adapting and adopting to the new approach of leadership and to produce results with a brandnew strategies. The Gen Y comes with an outburst of energies and we just need to alay these energies to the right chamber and most importantly to the right directions so that the Hotel can have better yield and a tinge of creativity above the rest of the competitors and foremost the improvements that is the by-product of this exercise.
I was brought up in Hotel business that puts these traits as a dominant criteria to success, contribute more time to the Hotel and more time by the days, months and years, obviously the more the better policy. The more higher you have climbed the hierarchy of the organizational chart, well the more time you need to dedicate to the Hotel. The initiatives to acquire new knowledge and experience were so profound that we have perpetually acquire many multi task skills over accumulated time frame. We were so adamant to success and ensuring that every moves are being observed and acknowledged by the superiors so that the crowning of the next available promotions are secured deservingly. In short, we will do anything to improves ourselves and making the experiences and new skills work to its optimum when the opportunity strikes.
However, these strategies and philosophy has wilted for some and died-off with the new evolution and the emergence of the Gen Y. The new generations are well educated in papers and some are saltishly savoured with overseas degrees and PHD etc. Upon their graduation and accomplishment in tertiary minimums, the Gen Y would have high self esteemed and confidence that resulted them looking forward for an attractively remunerated jobs or at least executive-Manager positions for their first entry in their resume. Well, the Hotels being still very much unchanged and offering the newbies the rank& file positions or for some lucky ones will be enrolled in Management Development Programs as Management trainees . Newbies in Hotel industry is too anxious to achieve their goals and forgotten the relevancy of the acquired experience that are so indispensable to the viability of oneself in this hospitality industry. Everyday is a new explore of the most complicated creature's demands, needs, wants etc. named homo sapiens, the man, the Guest and the employees. The learning experience and acquired experience are always a different subject to me, it just gives you the basis to handle the adversities and the celebrations as well. Well, for sure the educations system of any Hotel School, do not offer this chapter neither any syllables in the academic history.
Gen Y has so much tendencies to hop for any greener pastures as long as they see that there are changes in their employment's perks and remuneration value and forsaking the loyalty and a stable escalation in their career pathment. Gone are the days that the Hotelier slowly waiting for their succession plannings and staying back for the sake of job security and experience acquisition. They have new sets of priorities , that so much linked with a more meaningful word "Lifestyle". They want to work less but work smart and balancing the act of Quality and Quantity . They want to settle down earlier with assets ie. house, nice cars and club memberships etc. They do not believe is hogging in the long hours of work and a tandem monotonous lifestyle that can so much be predicted. They do not let new opportunities to slipped away from their hands but to take every initiatives to grab one as long as it crossed their path.
I noticed and experiencing now, agreeing and accepted the fact that the Gen Y are different, it is no longer an existence of the Gen X that does everything under one roof and not complaining a single word and terming those as an endowment to pay for travelling to the road of success. We are now living in a different era of mindset and lifestyle that we need to acknowledge by constantly adapting and adopting to the new approach of leadership and to produce results with a brandnew strategies. The Gen Y comes with an outburst of energies and we just need to alay these energies to the right chamber and most importantly to the right directions so that the Hotel can have better yield and a tinge of creativity above the rest of the competitors and foremost the improvements that is the by-product of this exercise.
