Leadership from Millennials to Generation Z Transformed
Dena Bateh
Management & International Business, Berkeley College, New York, United States
Abstract—This paper aimed at identifying if the leadership style from era of millennials to generation Z transformed. To start the project the idea was analyzing the historical aspect and evolutions of leadership styles, generations and workplace and, crossing them, understand which characteristics were important to define which style of leadership and management was more successful. After that, with some analyses of generation Z, trending for the market and the workplace, this project will propose the appropriate leadership style of generation Z. The method used to validate this idea was case study and analyses with quantitative and qualitative approach. To obtain the data a survey applied with 68 teenagers between 14 and 24 years old. Most of the teenagers were female (70%), with a median age of 17 years. The result obtained at the end of this project in terms of personal traits, workplace characteristics and leadership preferences were very varied which draws the conclusion that the leader should be able to lead simultaneously different types of employees, with different characteristics, skills, values and behaviors, it’s not being possible defined a single leadership style to leader in the future.
Index Terms— Leadership style; workplace; generation Z
Cite: Dena Bateh, "Leadership from Millennials to Generation Z Transformed," Journal of Advanced Management Science, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 11-14, March 2019. doi: 10.18178/joams.7.1.11-14