Critical Analysis of Leadership Theories for Millennial Employees

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Critical Analysis
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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Brief Summary of the article...........................................................................................................2
Body.................................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
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Introduction
The study is mainly focused on the differences of the leaders and mangers of the 21st
century and the leaders and managers of the past. This is also reflecting on how the perceptions
of the different generation gaps have been changed drastically and how the managers and
employees working in organizations has been changing and applying their perceptions for the
sake of the organizations in this century. The study is also describing the incongruence of the
different widely researched theories and its impact on the employees, managers and the leaders
of the 21st century as well. The study is also focused on the term Millennial, their nature of
working in organizations and their perceptions and behavior at their workplace. It is also
describing that how the Millennial have been working and way they were treated in the
organizations and how they are engaged at workplace of today’s organizations. It is also studying
the implications of the managers and the leaders when working with the millennial workforce.
Brief Summary of the article
The article is summarized by having the broader views and perceptions of the Millennial
who are mostly working in the organizations of 21st century. The article summarizes that how the
Millennial work and how they were behaving when they were working in today’s organizations.
The article also summarizes that the nature of the Millennial employees working in
organizations. It is summarizing the five different theories of leadership which has an impact on
the working, engagement and the motivation of the millennial employees. The article
summarizes that Millennial are not organizational centered and focused on their work they do,
they are basically self centered (Anderson et al. 2017). This also summarizes that Millennial are
only motivated with the extrinsic factors like the compensation, hike in the salaries as well as
rewards. This states that how the Millennial employees are not making any kind of ethical

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decisions as they are more likely to found work life balance rather than focused on their work.
The article also summarizes that how the millennial employees are getting treated form the
leaders and organizations. They are also treated by the managers and ladders in a different way
which they were not expecting from them. This is also the different nature of the millennial
employees as compared with the employees and supervisors in the past. It also summarizes the
challenges faced by the leaders as well the managers for not getting totally engaged with the
millennial employees (Schyns et al. 2013). It deals with the effectiveness of the leader member
relationships for the millennial employees to be able to work in a proper way and how they are
not contributing well for attainment of organizational goals.
Body
The current generation or millennial employees are quite different from the previous
generation employees in terms of their values and believes. Their senses of work centrality, work
ethics, work attributes and work motivation are quite different than the baby boomers. Hence, the
leaders face tough challenges to manage such employees with the previously developed
leadership theories. The author of this article has articulated that the organizational leaders
should lead the present day millennial employees by their necessity, differently. The suggestion
of the authors is quite adequate on the fact that the time has come to revisit the leadership
theories, which were actually developed before the millennial employees have entered in the
workforce. The authors of this article has primarily focused on the current five leadership
theories like transformational leadership, leader member exchange, information processing,
authentic leadership and ethical leadership.