COMPETENCIES & PREPAREDNESS OF ORGANIZATION TO COUNTENANCE GENERATION Z

Business and Management

Generation Z (Gen Z) belongs to group of population born after millennial generation. The exact range of the birth date is not specified for Gen Z however it has been referred as birth after late 1900s or from beginning of the 21st century. They are the teens, the youth, and young adult of global society. But the common among all of them is, they are present till date. Captionised as population with “DIGITAL IN THEIR DNA”, “TECHONOLOY & INTERNET BOOMERS”, Gen Z population are highly sophisticated, more techno savvy and moreover well versed with computer and internet world. They are proficient then their Gen Y (1974-1994) forerunners. Gifted with attribute as open minded, loyal, risk seeker, innovative, creative, digital natives, tolerance, flexible, and global player. Apart from these attributes they lack experience, prominent skill and techniques to add to their list to have a glance. Thus, to hire, motivate and retain Gen Z workforces for an organization is pretty challenging and yet fruitful in all regards. This paper investigates the competence and preparedness level of organization as how would they face the rapidly growing diverse and technology aided Gen Z workforce and provides suggestion for the organization to strengthen their competence and preparedness level to enhance Gen Z as a prominent player in their work force. Factors including communication skills, work environment, compensation policy, innovative idea and method of doing work, motivation and retention strategy are found to be crucial for countering the Gen Z and successful managing of all these factors is found be very much pivotal for an organization.

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