Introduction
All the organizations spend time and resources in achieving diversity, many limit their diversity to gender and ethnicity. One of the disconcerting diversity challenges are generational diversity — which goes overlooked and are not addressed.
For the first time, many organisations are trying hard to balance the needs of four generations in workforce. However many organisations don’t deal with these issues, rather they leave it to the employees. There are many generational conflicts that are seen every day on the team level. Because of this the productivity of the organisation decreases, which is not good for an organisation. According to a survey, more than 60 % of the employees are facing problems due to intergenerational conflicts.
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Management structures also are less formal compared to older generations. As of now, the Traditionals and Baby Boomers are moved into the later stage of their career and Gen X moves into prime working years and Gen Y is trying to make its mark.
As the two younger generations perpetuate pushing transmutations in the workplace to fit their predilections, expect these vicissitudes to manifest themselves as generational conflict, especially in these three main areas:
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However the Gen X and Gen Y’ers want them to be judged on the basis of merit and not the basis of how much time they spend in the office. The younger generations don’t consider them as less committed to the organisation. They feel themselves as independent.
Different communication styles:
There are different styles preferred by different generation people while communicating. There are a lot of differences in cultural attitudes, values across all generations. If the employees can understand the different communication styles of different generation employees then there won’t be any conflicts between employees in the organisation.
Technology:
Technology is the one of the main reason for conflicts that which arise between the employees of different generations. Technology has created a larger gap between the employees of different generations. The gap between Gen X and Baby Boomers is small, but the gap between Gen X and Gen Y is very large because of rapid growth of technology. “The technology gap will be even more for Gen Y and the following generation people,” said Zamzow. The technology is the main reason for the increase of the gap between employees between of different generations and this will lead to the disconnection among the four generation employees. Organisations which want a diverse culture must increase awareness among the employees of different generations