Multigenerational Workplace: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

by Harvard Business Review

Seize the benefits of the five-generation workforce. Generational distrust and ageism are seeping into organizations worldwide. Differences over communication style, technology preferences, identity, and politics are fueling harmful stereotypes and hurting team performance. It doesn't need to be this way. Smart leaders are harnessing age diversity and encouraging mutual learning, cross-generational collaboration, and a culture that embraces both similarities and differences across age groups. Multigenerational The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will help you bridge divides, reduce prejudice, and unlock the benefits of age-diverse teams. Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind? Get up to speed and deepen your understanding of the topics that are shaping your company's future with the Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review series. Featuring HBR's smartest thinking on fast-moving issues—blockchain, cybersecurity, AI, and more—each book provides the foundational introduction and practical case studies your organization needs to compete today and collects the best research, interviews, and analysis to get it ready for tomorrow. You can't afford to ignore how these issues will transform the landscape of business and society. The Insights You Need series will help you grasp these critical ideas—and prepare you and your company for the future.

Genres: Business

208 pages, Paperback

Published August 22, 2023

Reviews

[Arun Narayanaswamy · Rating 2 out of 5]

A very generic explanation on how different generations at a work place can co-exist, flourish and avoid potential conflicts.
Frankly there was nothing new to learn as a concept. In simple words if people have empathy, all these differences can be overcome.
Only bit that sort of struck a thought was about ageism being ignored when companies talk about diversity. Maybe a point to ponder as a leader.

[Keith Trnka · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is good food for thought, in that it provides a basic introduction to some of the challenges with a workforce that has a wide range of ages. It provides many examples of challenges at different ages and examples of solutions that companies have tried. I just wish the solutions were a bit more broad-ranging evidence to accompany the solutions.

[Annarella · Rating 5 out of 5]

Informative, useful and the right book if you work with people from different age and stage of life
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this arc, all opinions are mine

[Nathan Aracena · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing particularly helpful in here for actually managing and working with mixture of generations. Very high level