Odd Couples A 29.year-old and a 68.ywar-old. How much could they possibly have in common? And what could they leam from each other? At Randstad USA's Manhattan office, such employee pairings are common. One sach pair of colleagues sats inches apart facing each other, They hear every call the other makes. They read every e-mail the other sends or receives. Sometimes they finish each other's sentences." Randstad Holding NV, a Dutch company, has beve using this pairing idea sance its founding more than 40 years ago. The founder's motto was "Nobody should be alone." The onginal intent was to boost productavity by having alen agents share one pob and trade off job responsibulities. Today, theie partriern in the home ottice have an arritngement where one is in the office one week while the other one is out tnaking sales calls, then the neat week, they switch. The cocrpany brought its partives arrangement to the Unuted States in the late 1990 . But when it began recruiting new employees. the vast majority of whom were in their twenties, it realized the challenges and the potental of pairing different generations together. "Kinowing that these Gen Yers need lots of attintoon in the workplace, Randstad executoves figured that if they shared a job with sotneone whose own success depended on theirs, they were certain to got all the nurturing they required." Pairing different generations together at work.... and making it work! Randstad doen't simply pair up poople and hope it works. There's more to it than that The compary looks for people who will work well with others by conductang extenive intervews and requiring job applicants to shadow a sales agent for half a day, "One question Randstad asks is What's your asost. memorable moment while being on a tram? If they respond 'When I scored the winning toachdown,' that's a deal kaller. Everythang about our organization is based on the tenm and group." When a new hire is paired with an experienced agent, both individuals have some adjusting. One of the most interesting. elements of Randstad's program is that neither person is "the boss." And both are expected to teach the other. Prepare a 2-page paper answering the following questions. Remember; use 10-12 pt font and APA format!. Feel free to bring in outside data/sources, but please provide citations and a list of references. USE A COVER PAGE. TYPE THE QUESTIONS AND THEN YOUR ANSWERS. 1. What posible Organizational Beluvior topics do you see in this story? Explain. 2. What do you think about this pairing op idea? Would you be comfortable with such an arrangenent? Why or why not? 3. What personality traits would be most needed for this type of work arrangement? Why? 4. What types of issues might a Gen Y employee and an older, more experienced employee face? How could two people in such a dose knit work arrangement deal with those issues? That is, how could both make the adjustment easier