How to get older and younger people to work better together.

From: Supervision | Date: June 1, 2008| Author: Wynn, Garrison | Copyright information

Face it:The generation gap these days is more like a canyon. People under 30 and people over 40 do not see eye to eye! The over 40 crowd wonders why the 25-year-old wants to be promoted to manager during his first week of employment (and leave at 4:55p.m. daily). Meanwhile, the under-30 group believes a more seasoned coworker's computer crashed simply because he is old.

What happened to make these generations so misunderstood? We know historically that each generation is...

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