Millennials are really not different

We baby boomers have much in common with our predecessors.  Every generation seems to think that the newest generation does not measure up to their great standard.  My friend and colleague Goop Dhaliwal wrote a wonderful paper in JAMA – The Greatest Generation It is possible that in the days of giants, the narrator did unsupervised burr holes as an intern and had mastered the physical examination by the second year of residency. Beware, though, that each time we replay those autobiographical memories about our training, we are prone to make the situation more harrowing or ourselves more dedicated or skillful than the last iteration. These war stories are frequently told with confidence, detail, and emotion, which makes them far more believable—but that doesn’t make them any more accurate. But this is not just Goop’s opinion.   This wonderful article should shatter that myth – Boomers Don’t Work Any Harder Than Millennials Well, according to a new meta-analysis, there’s no real generational difference in work ethic between millennials and baby boomers (or even Gen-Xers!). Published this week in the Journal of Business and Psychology, a research team led by Wayne State University and Ford Motor Company researcher Keith L. Zabel analyzed a whopping 77 studies and some 105 measures of work ethic. The researchers were evaluating a secularized version of the Protestant work ethic (PWE), which states that work is central to life, that if you work hard yo...
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