Generational Differences at the Workplace

Running Head: Generational Differences
Generational Difference at the
Workplace
Memo
System04104
9/1/2019

Generational Differences 1
MEMO
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Date: 01 September 2019
Re: Generational Difference at the Workplace
Managing people in the organisation is one of the challenging tasks for any organisation and
management. Managing people of diversified group or age in the organisation create many
challenges in team coordination and making common agreement on particular topic or issue.
Lyons and Kuron (2014) explained this issue in their article that this field of HRD is still not
researched deeply by the management experts and researchers. The generation is the one of
the crucial variable at the workplace that determines the success of failure of the organisation.
This is an emerging issue in the human resource development field because there are so many
people who are working in an organisation and belongs to different age groups. Therefore, it
is a challenge for the organisation to coordinate or treat all the people in same way. The
generation difference at the workplace generally affects the quality of interaction and
influence the organisational and team performance and outcomes (Lyons and Kuron, 2014).
In other way, it can be said that generation differences in the organisation leads to many other
issues such as misunderstanding, poor communication, and conflicts among the member
because of their different opinion and perception. Therefore, this issue force them
organisations and their top leaders to adopt an effective strategy to manage this multi-
generational workforce and reduce the chances of conflicts and misunderstanding in the
organisation. Lipman (2017) described in his article of Forbes that it is essential for the
organisation to understand the behaviour pattern and thinking of different age group of
people in the organisation and their needs. This is the primary need of identifying and
understanding the need, thinking, opinion, and perception of people in the organisation. An
effective manager or leader of the organisation must have these skills and qualities to
understand the hopes and fear of every individual in the organisation and what are the dreams
that drive the individuals towards their goals or organisational goals. However, it is
considerable here that dream of every individual can be different that drive the attitudes of