Some forecasts show that by 2025, “millennials,” born between 1980 and 2000, will make up 75% of the workforce. While all individuals are different, millennials have some common characteristics that affect their motivation and productivity in the workplace. This webinar describes these important personality characteristics and offers concrete suggestions for using this knowledge to enhance millennial employee satisfaction and productivity.
Publication Date: June 2021
Topics Covered
- Personality characteristics of millennials in the workplace
- How differences between millennials and older generations may cause friction at the office
- Techniques for maximizing productivity and satisfaction of millennial employees
- Suggestions for managing intergenerational conflict
Learning Objectives
- Describe important personality characteristics of millennials in the workplace
- Identify how differences between millennials and older generations may cause friction at the office
- Recognize how to explain techniques for maximizing productivity and satisfaction of millennial employees
- Identify the percent of millennials marry by the age of 32
- Describe correct statements regarding millennial's values in the workplace
- Identify expectations of millennials
- Identify a positive quality of millennials at work
- Identify a technique for maximizing productivity and satisfaction of millennials and suggestions for minimizing intergenerational conflict
- Describe correct statements regarding millennials and mentoring
Level
Basic
Instructional Method
Self-Study
NASBA Field of Study
Business Management & Organization (2 hours)
Program Prerequisites
None
Advance Preparation
None
Instructor
Jennifer Kowal
Jennifer Kowal, JD, has been a tax professor and the director of the graduate tax program at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles since 2003. Loyola’s graduate tax program offers an LL.M. in Taxation for attorneys and a Master in Tax Law for non-lawyers. Professor Kowal teaches courses in advanced income taxation, income tax timing issues, corporate taxation, and tax research, among others. Prior to teaching at Loyola, Professor Kowal taught in the International Tax Program at Harvard Law School.
She also practiced law with the firms of Irell & Manella in Los Angeles and Ropes & Gray in Boston, advising clients on the taxation of various business transactions, including cross-border, partnership and corporate structures. Professor Kowal holds a BS in Accounting with distinction from the University of Kansas, and a JD from UCLA School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif.