[playing_colours]

I did not have experience with the whole team or department consisting of such guys, my situation was just several individuals (and I could not just fire them) within overall good collective. My appoach was to be very straightforward in communications, no motivational bullshit and no teaching tone. Just straight to what I expect from them to deliver. And I tried to give them tasks that are less related to critical core functionality - more like admin tools, etc.

Do not expect any wonders from them, and you cannot just change them - try to reduce risks,harm, and demotivation they can bring and treat them as adults.

[jermaustin1]

That is exactly what the manager at my last company did. Unless the workload was too great for the rest of the team to do alone, the more aged members of the team worked on internal tools (unless those were too high profile).