= Candy a 22-year-old white female, who is going to beauty school part-time and working part-time to make ends meet; she wants to open her own salon someday. = Juanita a very intelligent, 18-year-old Hispanic from a well-to-do family, who rebelled against going to the college where she'd been accepted, left home, and now plans to make it on her own. Since Chloe was gone during the hiring process, she knows none of these details and arrives back at work to learn that she needs to get up-to- speed and ready to start the project asap. She calls an initial meeting of the group. As she joins them, Chloe's first observation is that they are a very \"motley-looking crew.\" They all have their phones out, are texting, and looking things up on their phones. She asks them to join the meeting, and after giving them a little bit about her background, she invites them all to introduce themselves to her and to each other. As they relate the above descriptions of their backgrounds, she notices a couple of things: 1. o LN Most have tattoos, which kind of scares her. Some don't initially seem to be too smart. A couple have wild hair styles, like a mohawk, dreads, or shaved head. She thinks one is LGBTQ; she doesn't know anyone who is like this. These folks are very diverse, different from her, and she deoesn't know and hasn't worked with many folks from different cultural backgrounds. Chloe asks herself, \"What could HR be thinking when they hired these folks?\" She is kind of freaked out and at a loss for how to handle the situation. She can already feel the generational tension in the room. Regardless, she plows ahead, handing out a description of the project with a listing of the tasks to be performed and asking the new team to review it and consider what tasks interest them most. She suggests that they take a break and reconvene later in the day. When she gets back to her office, Chloe tries to reach you, her management mentor at NGA, about the situation. When she doesn't get ahold of you right away, she sends you an email, explaining what happened in the meeting and asking for your help in addressing the following guestions: 1. Why did NGA's HR department hire these folks? Have they gone bananas? You were involved in the hiring process, why do you think these folks were brought on for the project? 2. I've never worked with these kinds of Gen Zers before. What can you tell me about what these workers are like and what their motivational preferences are? How do you recommend | move forward in the short-run and the long-run? Do you think I'm stereotyping and being biased? How so? 5. What am | missing here? And, what should | do next? bl Generational Tension in the Office Case for Chapters 3, 4, and 14 Mancy H. Shanks Next Generation Analytics (NGA) secures a new contract for a large data project that has a quick turnaround. They need to expand their workforce in order to complete this project on a very short timeline, but the labor market is really tight with very low unemployment rates in most geographic areas. NGA is already short-staffed, has had trouble hiring highly qualified employees, and needs to bring on some new folks to work on this important project Chloe, a white Millennial in her mid-30s, is assigned as the project manager. She has worked for NGA for 10 years, since graduating from college with a degree in computer science. She''s been married to her high-school sweetheart for 12 years and has three \"perfect\" children. She has expressed interest in getting more management experience, taking on something new, and seems like a good choice to lead this project, despite having little management background Chloe was, unfortunately, on an extended family vacation when the project came in In Chloe's absence HR went ahead and hired a group of young hourly workers (Gen Zers) to start work on the project when Chloe returns from holiday. Among the group are the following individuals: = Jose a 21-year-old male, first-generation college student from a close-knit Hispanic family; he needs to work part-time to help support them and put himself through engineering school. = Jasmine a 19-year-old African American female, who has been working retail since graduating from high school; she is considering going into the military, where she thinks she can build a career and eventually go to officer training school = Jamal an 18-year-old African American male, who graduated first in his class from high school and is taking a gap year before college, he plans to eventually study economics and perhaps become a professor. = Robert a 20-year-old white male, who was in a gang in his teens, got into trouble, and was homeless for a while; he applied for this work on his counselor's recommendation and is now trying to get his act together and go to community college