Workplace Culture and Diversity
Working with staff members with generational differences
For the veteran generation to meet safe patient care and optimal patient outcomes the manager should address the following: the manager would have to address communication since this group of nurses was taught to be respectful and to speak when spoken to. The manager would need to provide education on how to increase communication with other medical providers and patients. The manager would need to educate the nurses on intergrading technology into their communication skills. The nurses would need to be encouraged to question authority if they perceived something is wrong or will cause harm to a patient. The manager would need to educate the staff on …show more content…
The veterans believe that roles were clearly defined for home life and work and that they needed to follow them period. The baby boomer generation has difficulty in finding a balance between work and home life. The generation X members values a balance between work and home life. The millennial generation values a balance between work and home …show more content…
Simply stated, the inability to achieve work/life balance drives employees to seek opportunities outside the company. In fact, work/life balance is often more important to retention than compensation and benefits. Nevertheless, work/life balance is one of the hardest things to achieve. Managers play a key role in allowing employees to take advantage of the full range of company work/life programs.
Meeting the diversity issues between life and work the manager could offer a flexible work schedule that could accommodate the workers. This could be done by either working longer hours and cutting the days the person works, or cutting the hours and making it a shorter day. This could also be met by allowing employees to change days with another employee to meet their needs.
According to Diversity Central (2002), allow two employees to share one job. Although less common, often you can retain two good employees by allowing them to share one job. In this way, each employee is able to work part-time. As a manager, it may be more difficult to manage two employees instead of one. However, the benefit of retaining two valuable employees should outweigh the
Working with staff members with generational differences
For the veteran generation to meet safe patient care and optimal patient outcomes the manager should address the following: the manager would have to address communication since this group of nurses was taught to be respectful and to speak when spoken to. The manager would need to provide education on how to increase communication with other medical providers and patients. The manager would need to educate the nurses on intergrading technology into their communication skills. The nurses would need to be encouraged to question authority if they perceived something is wrong or will cause harm to a patient. The manager would need to educate the staff on …show more content…
The veterans believe that roles were clearly defined for home life and work and that they needed to follow them period. The baby boomer generation has difficulty in finding a balance between work and home life. The generation X members values a balance between work and home life. The millennial generation values a balance between work and home …show more content…
Simply stated, the inability to achieve work/life balance drives employees to seek opportunities outside the company. In fact, work/life balance is often more important to retention than compensation and benefits. Nevertheless, work/life balance is one of the hardest things to achieve. Managers play a key role in allowing employees to take advantage of the full range of company work/life programs.
Meeting the diversity issues between life and work the manager could offer a flexible work schedule that could accommodate the workers. This could be done by either working longer hours and cutting the days the person works, or cutting the hours and making it a shorter day. This could also be met by allowing employees to change days with another employee to meet their needs.
According to Diversity Central (2002), allow two employees to share one job. Although less common, often you can retain two good employees by allowing them to share one job. In this way, each employee is able to work part-time. As a manager, it may be more difficult to manage two employees instead of one. However, the benefit of retaining two valuable employees should outweigh the