(From clomedia.com) Creating a sense of organizational community helps increase employee engagement and retention in a multigenerational workforce.
With today’s multigenerational workforce, ranging from traditionalists to the baby boomers to Generations X and Y, learning leaders face the challenge of building continuity along with individual development amid a divide in workplace values.
Each generation holds a unique set of values. Traditionalists, those born before 1946, value core skills and hard-nosed standards; the baby boomers, born just after ’46, value hard work and multi-tasking; and Generations X and Y embrace the development of technology. Each is tasked with coming together for a common purpose: to work toward the success of a business.
Add in a perilous economic climate, where workers are consistently worried amid job cuts and corporate restructuring, and learning leaders feel pressure to bridge these differences toward continued development, greater training and success.
