Ashish Kumar from Tekriti Software

AllBusiness.com has a good article on working with the young employees in its Business Advice section. The points are:

• Be clear from the outset: When you interview a younger potential worker, be sure to craft a clear representation of what your company will expect of him or her. Fully explain performance goals, appropriate office behavior, dress code, and office hours.
• Give them extra structure: Your young employees need defined due dates for reports and detailed schedules for projects in order to properly structure their workday.
• Teach business standards: It is important that you instruct young employees from the beginning about your company’s business standards. Young workers may never have been accountable for meeting strict objectives and might not understand the costs of actions such as using unsuitable language in a business e-mail.
• Give them free rein to multitask: Keep in mind that your young staffers can multitask unlike any generation before them. This means that they can send e-mails, talk on the phone, and compose memos at the same time — and enjoy themselves in the process.
• Cultivate a positive atmosphere: For young workers, the workplace needs to be fun and employee-centered. They want to enjoy their work and their workplace, and they want to make friends with their colleagues. This means going out to lunch with other employees, laughing and joking with staffers during work hours, and being involved in planning company events
• Be a mentor: Young employees want to learn from you and receive your daily feedback. They want your leadership and supervision, to learn about how the company works from the source. You should understand this when you hire them, and plan to spend time teaching and coaching them. Young employees will return your investment in them with their enthusiasm.
• Strive for work-life balance: Young employees fill their lives with many activities — sports leagues, social groups, classes, time spent with friends. They work hard, but they are generally not workaholics. Home, family, and friends are often their first priorities. It is important to remember that work-life balance is very important to young employees.

I will add a few more points to this one:

• Give responsibilities: Keep giving more and more responsibilities. There are chances that people will make mistakes in the beginning and one needs to be patient there. But this is something which pays off very soon and makes huge difference in the productivity.
• Educate them on the perks: Most people when they are starting don’t have enough knowledge on the benefits like Mediclaim Insurance, Tax Laws, Stock Policy - it’s important for a company to provide education about the same for people to be able to appreciate it.
• Encourage them to form committees to solve the problems: Encourage people to come up with their feedback but don’t jump on to solving it all yourself. Instead, let them only form committees and suggest solutions and own the implementation.

Of course, it helps if you are also in the same age-group.