worker, boomerang,3 provider of services, semi-independent consultant, worker for
provider organizations and clients, etc. In this environment, it is possible that the more
experienced and qualified workers, with greater leadership ability and less resistance to
risk-taking, will decide (or be encouraged) to focus on their own entrepreneurial
projects, eventually severing any relationship with their former organization.
On a different topic, for the first time, three generations will coexist in the labour force
of most organizations. The relationship among them - the conflict of their respective
values, the division of work, and the hierarchical relationship - will mark profoundly the
life of the organization and alter radically the reality of people management.