Homework: Diverse Workforce Training Plan
Competency
Analyze the importance of managing a diverse workforce.
Scenario
You work for a company that has employees from each of the five generations: Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z. Because there is a great deal of generational diversity in your company, your managers have sometimes struggled to effectively communicate with their teams. In order to help your colleagues, you decide to put together a part of a training plan to discuss the importance of managing a diverse workforce and provide guidance to managers.
Task
Create a training plan that:
1. Researches and summarizes each of the five generations in the workforce:
a. Traditionalists
b. Baby Boomers
c. Generation X
d. Millennials
e. Generation Z
2. Identifies effective strategies for communicating with, motivating, and supporting a generationally diverse workforce.
3. How does each generation prefer to communicate?
4. How do you keep them engaged?
5. Examines the benefits that companies have experienced employing multigenerational workforces and why these are important for organizational success.
6. Analyzes potential communication and collaboration challenges that could occur among the different generations and why these are important to understand when managing a diverse workforce.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
1. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.