Gen Y Wants the Same Kind of Government-Sector Leadership that Gen X and Boomers Want—Will They Get It?

An article at GovernmentExecutive.com states:

“Despite some well-documented generational differences, baby boomers and millennials essentially need the same thing from their federal jobs: strong leadership and flexible pay…”

Recruiting is a big problem in government agencies, but retention is an even bigger one. In one department, “…Nearly 50 percent of the workforce has five years or less of service.”

Quoting a propoent of a public service academy, the article goes on to say:

“If [other generations] think about what they want now and what they wanted when they started working, it's the same kinds of things. The only difference is we have the technology now to do those things.”

Technology and programs? Okay. But what about people and leadership? I don’t think we’re able to program them yet.