Social Relationships Between Management and Staff

Source: The CPA Journal, A Publication of the New York State Society of CPAs

A panel of staff members from Chicago area accounting firms talked about why partners, especially those in their fifties, have trouble relating to them. The consensus was that partners think they can best understand the younger generation by becoming their friends. Staff says they don’t want friendships. They want training, mentoring, and role models. Female role models are important to female staff.

These staff people also indicated, among other things:

• Compensation is very important.
• They don’t mind long hours so long as they can work where and when they want.
• About half were interested in partnership.

For the complete article, click here and select the article Young Professionals to Management: ‘Don’t Try to Be Our Friends.’

From The CPA Journal, A Publication of the New York State Society of CPAs, February 2008.

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