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Reaching and engaging with ‘lazy, entitled’ Gen-Z
January 24, 2019 8:24 AM


PETALING JAYA: Youngsters belonging to “Generation Z”, also known as “post-millennials” and “digital natives”, often get a bad rep from those who believe they will destroy or kill off traditional markets and businesses.

Like the millennial generation before them, they are mostly dismissed as lazy, unreliable, entitled and easily distracted.

But Edward Boey, who founded his own IT company, believes otherwise.

Because they were born in the midst of technological advancements, he says the Gen-Z, as they are called, are a wellspring of unconventional ideas.

He told FMT employers should be open to collaboration with such youth, and allow them to try new things in their organisations.

He gave the example of a Gen-Z whom he said changed his company with her out-of-the-box ideas.

“Her ideas changed how we developed our website and made it much faster,” he said.

But despite their energy and novel ideas, he said, many Gen-Z lack confidence, especially those who were not academically inclined at school.


Boey is an adviser at Ascendance, a social enterprise run by teenagers who conduct workshops and programmes for youth. The youngest is 16 while the oldest is 22.

One of their programmes, called AceItEasy, aimed to help schoolchildren in mid to low performing classes improve in their studies as well as self-confidence. It also encouraged them to find their passion and explore their talents.

It ran nationwide last year at more than 20 institutions in partnership with the education ministry.

The students in the programme recorded outstanding results, with five out of nine participating schools noting improvements in discipline and character.

Based on this model, Boey said peer-to-peer mentorship appeared to be an effective way of addressing low academic performance and confidence levels.

He proposed that the current methods of teaching be tweaked with input from the Gen-Z themselves.

He said these youth, who were mostly born after the mid-1990s, preferred hands-on engagement when it came to classroom learning.

Heerra Ravindran, 19, was one of the founders of Ascendance. She received a full scholarship at an international school and went on to become and international singer/songwriter.

She is now the chief operating officer of the enterprise.

She said based on her work with the Gen-Z, they appeared to have a common problem: regardless of their background, they felt misunderstood and many feared they would never find their purpose in life.

She said they needed to take the initiative to stay engaged and find ways to supplement traditional methods of learning.

“A lot of them, when they study, take creative notes or pretend the events taught in History classes are motives in their heads.

“They need to find creative ways to work with the current system.”

In terms of employability, she said, many of them lacked experience and exposure and thus had “false perceptions” about jobs and the reality of working life.

“Good mentorship at the workplace really helps,” she said, adding that employers should allow them the space to make mistakes.

Heerra’s sister, 16-year-old Harsha Ravindran, is chief marketing officer of Ascendance. She was only 13 when the social enterprise took off.

Through her work at Ascendance, she now speaks at international conferences like TEDx and the Asian Institute of Finance.

She acknowledged the general perception of the Gen-Z being lazy, unreliable and easily distracted, but said these should not be the only things that define the group.

“We are not just that,” she said, adding that with the right engagement, they could overcome these stereotypes.

She herself is unable to sit in a classroom for long, and says experiential or hands-on learning is a more effective way of teaching her generation.

She urged employers to start working with the Gen-Z instead of “hypothetically” discussing their issues without input from the teenagers themselves.

“I was invited to speak at a conference about engaging, retaining and adapting to the Gen-Z, but I was the only Gen-Z there,” she recalled.

She too agreed that self-confidence is an issue among her peers.

She attributed this to the scrutiny given to teenagers and children in general.

“All of them fear making mistakes. Everyone wants to be number one, nobody wants to fail.”

DARSITA

Bukan di Malaysia sahaja di US ni pun sama. Generasi yang pentingkan diri mereka sendiri.

zacks

gen Z = generasi PUBG/Mobile Legend/Dota2/Tik Tok

RED 666

zacks replied at 24-1-2019 09:17 AM
gen Z = generasi PUBG/Mobile Legend/Dota2/Tik Tok

budak2 wicet

R2D2

Tik Tok ni mcm2 Gen tumpang sekaki

harizs

Generasi ni yg undi PH baru2 ni sbb x mau bayar ptptn. Padan muka kena kencing

rospinki

ya..taraguna punya gen.

sebab tu aku awal2 dh masuk diorg ke skolah ala2 military biar kena disiplin kaw2

prettyuglybabe

salah mak bapak gen x y la yang manjakan anak..
cikgu denda anak komplen..
cikgu rotan anak saman..
sudahnya jadilah generasi tak boleh pakai..

Kurex

RED 666 replied at 24-1-2019 09:18 AM
budak2 wicet

sekarang dah micet

ChildrenOfBodom

ala masa generasi X, Y tgh muda dulu benda sama gak orang cakap..

mesti biasa kita dgr org2 tua sebut "budak2 zaman la ni tak macam dulu bla bla"

Same old shit, just a different day

leylapple

generasi yg expectation bila dah kluar U kompom dapat keja office ber aircond...

CharlesDera

generasi Z ni jugak la yang bermatian membela budaya menduboq LGBT...gnerasi snowflakes, generasi lembik, generasi mudah triggered and offended...generasi yang outspoken but speaking of nonsense...wakakakakkakaka

arm_band

yes.... entitled sangat

palmolive

done endorsed

R2D2

gaji fresh graduate pun nak minta RM3K ke atas
mana la majikan tak melenting

jfq

Yg respon ni smua baca title aje
Padahal article tu cerita panjang lebau pasal achievement

EncikH

zacks replied at 24-1-2019 09:17 AM
gen Z = generasi PUBG/Mobile Legend/Dota2/Tik Tok

kah kah kah betul.....gen z yang habiskan 80% masa mengadap phone.
Tapi tu mungkin masa depan kita kot...main game pon dah level professional skrg, ada dalam sukan malaysia, world cup...boleh menang juta2.

Kita yang tua ni yang dah ketinggalan.  

finesse

Acah2 hebat masing2 dlm benang.

Malaysia.Doom

CharlesDera replied at 24-1-2019 11:19 AM
generasi Z ni jugak la yang bermatian membela budaya menduboq LGBT...gnerasi snowflakes, generasi le ...

generasi yg disukai daddy2 gay
dr gen X

Dwdrum

sama saja kot setiap generasi ada kerenah sendiri .... generasi sebelum x sifat ego budak tidak boleh melawan yang tua mereka saja bener............ generasi y ..z ....ke atas mereka suka menjawab ....budak generasi baru yang punyai pandangan berbeza dan technology ubah cara hidup mereka......bergaduh lah u guysss........selfproclaimed siapa yang bagus.......