6 ppt slides on Group Decision Making
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Multi-Generational Teams
Workforce consisting of employees from different generations.
Consists of different generations such as baby boomer generation, the millennial generation, generation z and generation x.
Organization could possibly work with teams of people ranging from four to six different generations at one time in coming years.
Multi-Generational Teams: Multi-Generation Teams refers to workforces comprised of employees from distinct generations such as Gen x, millennial and baby boomers. It is predicted that in the near future organizations will be working with a workforce ranging from four to six different generations at one time. Thus, it is very important for the organizations to learn how to manage multi-generational teams today.
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Challenges to effective management of multi-generational teams
Communication protocol.
Presence of different preferred forms of communication.
Different environmental context.
Application of non-verbal communication such as body language.
In management of multi-generational teams, the form of responses received by the managers depends on the kind of generation being asked. That is, generation Y normally prefer using text messages to communicate while the baby boomers and the older Gen Xers normally prefer using emails or phone calls. Moreover, the communication style used depend of the environmental context. For instance, when there is heavy emotions involved, a person can prefer using voice or body language to be more persuasive despite the kind of generation that is communicating. Thus, for effective management of multi-generational team, the managers need to know how to communicate to various generations.
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Challenges to effective management of multi-generational teams
Work from home options.
Advanced technology has made working from remotely more feasible.
Not all tasks can be performed remotely
Not every employee is effective when working from his/her home.
Managers need to change managing style.
The advanced technology has made it possible for the employees to work from home. The ability of the employees to work remotely is one of the challenges for effective management of multi-generational teams. This is due to the fact that not every person is independent enough to work remotely and also not all tasks can be performed remotely. Thus, to effectively manage multi-generational teams, managers need to change there managing style. There are chances that younger employees is more suited to working remotely compared to the older generation since they are more adept with technology.
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Challenges to effective management of multi-generational teams
Employee to employee relations.
There is a dramatic change in the way employees conduct themselves in workplace from the past.
That is, there is enhancement in what is supposed to be talked in the workplace.
Today people are expressing more of themselves at workplace.
Those who are more reluctant to sharing their person details are considered to be cold as well as antisocial.
There are changes in how employees relate to each other compared with the past decades. Today people tend to share more about themselves unlike before where people kept their personal life private. This forms a challenge to the management of multi-generational teams since managers can sometimes cross the line concerning the privacy of employees. Thus, effective management of multi-generational teams requires the managers keep in mind that each employee has hi or her own level of comfort in sharing. Thus, learning how to engage where such a line is, is the key to establishing a culture that every employee feels safe(Workforce, 2020).
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Effective Management of multi-generational teams.
Lack of individual communication among employees.
Team Managers fail to communicate to individual employees.
Employees fail to understand how they contribute to the objectives of the organization.
How they can achieve their next level in career development.
Failure of managers to hold individual communication with employees cause challenges related to work from home options and improper employee to employee relations. Thus, managers can avoid such challenges by effectively communicating with the employees regarding how their efforts contribute to the achievement of the organization’s objectives. Moreover, communicating to individual employees can enable the managers to inform them how they can achieve their next level in career development. Through this, the performance of multi-generational teams can improve.
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Effective Management of multi-generational teams.
Failure to identify preferred management style.
Employees have different opinions concerning leadership.
Employees also have different opinions concerning what a great manager should do.
Failure to identify what team members prefer in leadership.
Management of multi-generational teams is challenging due to the failure of the managers to identify preferred management styles. Preferred management styles is determined by what the team members prefer to be appropriate. Employees have different views concerning what comprises an leadership as well as what a successful manager should do. For instance, baby boomers believe that leaders should be collegial and consensual while generation x view competency as the key to leadership. Thus, it is important for the managers to consider various views in order to come up with an effective management style.
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References
Tips for Leading Multi-Generational Teams | Generations in the Workplace | Tourism Info | go2HR. (2020).
Workforce, T. (2020). 4 Main Challenges Affecting the Multigenerational Workforce.
