Diversity Inclusion/Four Generations in the Workforce

For the first time in history, four distinct age generations are together in the workplace. What are their differences and how does each generation understand the others and their approach to work? General conflicts can cause a loss in productivity, and lower the overall morale, and outlook on teamwork in any business.

The Generations:
Matures - born prior to 1945
Baby Boomers - born between 1946 and 1964
Generation X - born between 1965 and 1980
New Millennials - born after 1980

What are the ways businesses can dramatically reduce workplace conflict and provide managers and supervisors with strategies for dealing with recruiting, retaining, and motivating, using the generational differences in a positive way?

Conduct workshops on communication, and help each generation learn to enjoy their co-workers. Define what trends affect generation change, and help each generation acknowledge their expectations, but to incorporate them into a team.

For Corporations to retain employees regardless of generation should be easy, but it seems to be more difficult than one would think. All four generations have distinct differences and different opinions about how to work and run the day-to-day office. But in the end don't we all want to know that our employers value our work on a daily basis, and that we are making some type of contribution?

Learn the dramatic differences between each generation, and why this has become a problem:

http://www.fdu.edu/newspubs/magazine/05ws/generations.htm

Diversity Inclusion in the Workplace!

We all want to feel that we belong somehwere in the workplace--that we have a voice and someone is listening to what we have to say. Not only are they listening to us, but also, giving us the opportunities to advance within the company. For the next 10 weeks, I will be writing a blog on Diversity Inclusion in the Workplace. How companies need to implement mentoring, leadership and executive programs. As well, as recognizing the companies who have been given awards for their outstanding commitments they have given to the value of diversity and the role it will play in their corporation.

All employees should be valued, heard and should be assets to any corporation. Corporations should embrace diversity by honoring, respecting, acknowledging, and recognizing all, races, religions, ages, backgrounds, ethnicities and cultures. And one company was recognized last year and awarded for taking those differences and building a better and stronger community for their corporation and the world in general.

"Dell became a member of the Billion Dollar Roundtable, an organization that provides thought leadership in supplier diversity and consists of 15 corporations that have spent more than $1 billion with minority- and woman-owned suppliers. In 2008, the Dell team drove $2.5 billion of procurement spending with small, minority- and woman-owned suppliers. Learn more about the Billion Dollar Roundtable at www.bdrusa.org."