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ELEMENTS OF SUCCESSFULHUMAN RESOURCEMANAGEMENT TO ADDRESS DIVERSITY AT THE WORKPLAC

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Consists of different generation of workers with different, often covalues and attitudes to (Cascio 2008).

4 generation :-

Traditionalist

Baby boomers

Generation X

Generation Y

AGE DIVERSITY

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Older Employees & Baby Boomers

Born between 1946 and 1964 Loyal & hardworking

They want details. They don't want you to tell them what to do, twant the information to make decisions.

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Generation Y

Born between 1982200

Better educated.

Familiar to new technolo

More creative.

No problem in telling wh

want.

They like challenging wobalanced with having fu

Generation X & Generation Y

Generation X

Born between 19651981.

High value of entrepreneurship.

Tend to working for themselves &quick to capitalize on jobopportunities elsewhere.

Have the ability to keep learning

& can increase their skill to highestlevel.

Innovative but disrecpectful, lazy & egocentric.

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Older workers will be lessproductive as compared to theyounger workers

Can lower economic growth anddecrease fiscal sustainability

mental decline, physical decline,inability to cope with change,and performance

speed and episodic memory willdeclines significantly before 50years old and more thereafter

productivity decline for maleworkers aged 55 and more due tothe consequences on standardsof living (larger family size & othercommitment)

Age & Productivity

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not interested in training anddevelopment opportunities

slow to learn or difficult to be train

cost more than younger workersand are not worth employers

As older people are reaching the

retirement age, and due to thefact they are looking for substitutefor leaving employees has madethe older employees often to beleft out.

Age, interrelations with training

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High costs are often seemain disadvantage of o

older workers have greater wealthof experience and reliability thanyounger workers

companies will lose the skills andexperience of middle-agedworkers where they are forced todecide whether to force out

middle-aged employees tosecure productivity, or retain themto utilize the talents they havebuilt up over many years

Age,experience & learning

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wages can be determined basedon productivity, seniority

Both pension payments andhealth insurance often increaseby age

Incentive could be in form ofseniority, the longer the servicethe more will be the wages.

Age,productivities & wages

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must be open to all employees

The age limits must be removedfor access to learning and trainingopportunities

give opportunity to olderemployees to progress theircareer or change their job

older employees can teach theknowledge, skill and experienceto the younger employees

Learning, training & development practic

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include flexibility of the workinghours

the places where the employeework

the employees access totechnology

the professional developmentopportunities and mentors to helpemployees adjust to new ways ofworking

Flexible working arrangement

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set the wages rate based on theproductivity and less element ofseniority

to maintain job security, they willdisregard of their age to staycompetitive and be moreproductive

Waging strategies

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science of designing theworkplace and work tasks toimprove productivity and safety

designing a suitable environmentfor older workers will increase thesafety and productivity of allworkers

the workplace can be designedand redesigned so that olderworkers have the ability anddesire to adapt .

Ergonomics strategies

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Varying Comprehensibility

Three different symbols forhandle with care that vary in terms ofcomprehensibility (left to right, lower to higher comprehensibility).

Handle with care

Warning symbol

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Training

Old employee should be given chance to receive training as weyoung employee in order to improve their productivity.

Essential to have diversity training in organization to satisfy the neindividuals to improve.

CONCLUSIONS

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Experience

Most valuable asset to the company operation it is a need to untheir need and desire.

Older worker are more preferred on having job security and job

rather than career track.

Should be taken care of their health as they are aging and their status are not the same as young people.

Will make them more appreciated and this will hopefully will affeemployability.

Wages Rate

Should be based on the level of productivity and less seniority.

All workers will compete in order to gain more incentive and incrproductivity.

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Physical & Mental Abilities

Employers can identify the hazards, then implement programs anthe environment, processes and procedures to better support theof older employees.

Older employees will perform their jobs productively and safely byreducing the performance gap.

Management of organisations should dedifferent HR models/approach that cancompatibility and cooperation betdifferent age groups.

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