Leading a Multigenerational Team: Challenges and Best Practices

Leading a
Multigenerational
Team

ABSTRACT
The main aim of this research paper was to highlight the way in which
multigenerational teams are led in the modern business workplace by focusing on 5 separate
generations being traditionalists, baby boomers, generation X, millennials and generation Z
respectively. The paper went into detail regarding their personal values, mental perspectives
and expectations towards organization processes along with motivating factors and the
reasoning behind their specific behavioral traits tied down to the generation they were born
in. The paper also consisted of major focus being laid on the way in which diversity and in
and out group management has come out as very complex challenges which the field of
diversity management has to answer for the effective functioning of modern business
workplaces. The research paper also included various ways in which a multigenerational
workforce can be managed by focusing on the needs and wants of each generation along with
recommendations for leaders to effectively manage such diverse workforces.

Contents
ABSTRACT...............................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY.............................................................................................................................4
Five major generations in today’s workforce.........................................................................4
Values, perspectives and expectations of different generations.............................................5
Benefits of multigenerational workforce...............................................................................6
Key challenges in leading a multigenerational workforce.....................................................7
How leaders should lead multigenerational teams.................................................................7
CONCLUSION..........................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES...........................................................................................................................9