From “Millennials View Education as Least Satisfying Segment for Empowerment, Workplace Collaboration” by T.H.E. Journal’s Dian Schaffhauser comes this summary of a survey of young professionals:
“Millennials,” who make up a quarter of the current workforce, consider educational institutions the least innovative, at least when compared to retail, technology, healthcare and advertising, marketing and PR. This segment of the population, also known as Generation Y, were born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s, putting them somewhere in their early 30s and younger.
Where there is innovation, 80 percent of those employed in education point to talented people as the primary source. Where it’s lacking, 57 percent of millennials blame poor management.
… 46 percent…indicated that the school districts, colleges, and universities where they’re employed have outdated collaboration practices. More than half said they believe their employers make it tough for ideas to be shared or taken to the next level …
Those results came out of a recent survey of 600 millennials employed in multiple sectors. The survey project was run by SurveyMonkey and sponsored by IdeaPaint, a company that sells paint to convert smooth surfaces into dry erase surfaces for collaboration purposes …
[Education] scored the lowest (65 percent) in using brainstorm meetings as the primary means to generate “big ideas.”
(NB: Always, always, always look at a survey’s sponsor! A company that sells whiteboard paint is going to have a particular point of view in designing a survey and measuring innovative practices! That being said, yeah, we don’t do a lot of brainstorming in K-12. And when we do, the loudest voices tend to win, which calls into question whether brainstorming is the most effective pathway to meaningful change. But I digress.)
The survey’s authors reported that education’s “highly regimented structure” is hurting its image among younger workers …
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According to the report’s authors, “Empowerment and accomplishment are key attributes millennials look for in a career, and education is currently failing in both of these categories.”
Agree – I see this yearning as well.
As a group, the report stated, “Millennials are a tech savvy bunch that love to text, tweet, and practically do everything from their mobile device.” However, it added, these workers also place a premium on their time and “will opt for the clearest road to completion for their work tasks and sometimes ignore workplace policies or hierarchy.”
Herbert Simon’s idea of “satisficing,” or doing just what’s needed to get done seems apropos here and not limited to millennials.
However, I do find that while my generation and those before it put up with (and were expected to put up with) time-wasting as a cost of doing business, millennials tend to be vocal and upset (or even vocally upset) if their time is not used effectively.
The sentiment is the same: the difference is in whether it is expressed publicly or privately, methinks. (And, of course, I am speaking in verrrrrry broad strokes.)
Read more of T.H.E. Journal‘s summary here and download IdeaPaint’s survey findings here.