Overview of Diversity in Management

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Diversity in
Management
Management of age diversity in
workgroup
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Diversity in Management 1
The globalization and opening of borders for business have resulted in an increase in diversity at
the workplace. Workplace diversity could be associated with gender, race, ethnicity, religious
beliefs and age. The mangers in the current age have a tough task to organize the workplace
environment in such a way that, the atmospheric effect if the workplace on each individual
should bring out the best of them (Tang et al., 2017). Moreover, the sentimental values of
each individual and a sense of fair and unbiased treatment are most important in a diversified
working environment. The present workplace scenario brings a mixed consortium of various age
groups belonging to different generations (Kunze et al., 2011). The major composition of
diversified generation in an organization might consist of generation X, millennials and
Generation Z (Schroth, 2019). The present report will prove a brief overview of the difficulties
in managing a diversified age group at the workplace and steps a manager could take for an
efficient outcome from the diversified workgroup.
The research work published by (Schroth, 2019), provides an elaborative view over the
problems that a manager could comprehend while employing a person belonging from
generation Z. The major problems faced by managers while working with the generation Z
employees include limited or no prior working experience, in a report published by (Morisi,
2017), indicated that only a decrease of 43.33 % in the percentage of teen who did a job in the
year 2015 in comparison to the year 1979. The massive drop in teen employment is subjected to
higher competition for good education along with the high unemployment rate that results in a
scarcity of working opportunities for teens. The manger could introduce the employee with the
job specification along with the growth opportunities for the employee, to provide a realistic
view of the job. Employee onboarding is an important aspect, particularly with generation Z
employees as most of the generation Z employees have complained about anxiety at the start of
their work. A study conducted by (Caldwell & Peters, 2018), indicated the importance of a
good employee onboarding strategy.
In the video presented by (Conley, 2018), provided an insight into the working environment of
Airbnb. In the video, the author explains the problem faced by an elder employee working in a
young oriented working environment. The kind of adaptability required for the working and
providing efficient outcome for the organization done by the author was presented in the video