Across the Generations: Closing the Gap – Arlene J. Nicholas, Ph.D. Salve Regina University

Across the Generations: Closing the Gap – With four generations in the current workplace, identifying the different values, lifestyles, and motivation for each is important to our future success together. Learning how to sell to, market to, and interact with other generations can help your individual career productivity. Dr. Nicholas reveals a closer analysis of the different generations and how to best interact and motivate one another. In this session you will learn to understand the principles and beliefs of each generation; how to communicate with and motivate each generation for maximum productivity; utilize effective hiring and incentive programs across the generations.

Dr. A.J. Nicholas is an Assistant Professor in the Business Studies and Economics Department of Salve Regina University teaching undergraduate courses in Management including Organizational Behavior, Business Communications, Human Resources and Business Research. Community involvement includes a Service Learning extension of Human Resources and Business Communications courses in cooperation with Child and Family that has Salve students working with underserved community high school students on job and college preparations. Dr. Nicholas also teaches graduate classes of Human Resources on campus and online. She received her B.S. in Biology cum laude at Salve Regina University as well as a MA in Human Resource Management and an MS in Information Systems Science. At Touro University International, she received her Ph. D in Business Administration.