Description
Creating a Welcoming Workplace for the Older Worker
The nursing workforce is aging rapidly. In fact, Baby Boomers constitute the largest group of nurses currently practicing. This aging workforce poses two significant ramifications for nurse managers. First, due to the volatility and uncertainty in the world and national economy, many Baby Boomers have shifted their retirement plans and are staying in the workforce. This is requiring creative responses on the part of employers. Conversely, as these highly experienced and knowledgeable nurses do begin to exit the active workforce, experts anticipate a “brain drain” that will affect all levels of health care environments.
In this week’s Assignment, you critically assess your current organization or one with which you are familiar to determine why older workers may stay in or leave their positions. In addition, you suggest strategies that could help to retain and further engage this specific population of nurses.
To prepare
- Review the article, “From Veterans to Nexters: Managing the Multi-Generational Nursing Workforce.” Reflect upon the key ideas: the challenges and implications of managing a multi-generational workforce, common generational differences, interventions for increasing generational motivation, and strategies for retaining the older nurse.
- Reflect on your current organization or one with which you are familiar and determine the demographic breakdown of employees based on age. Then, consider how this specific work environment might present difficulties for older workers and think about factors that might cause these employees to leave your setting.
- Use this week’s Learning Resources, as well as your own scholarly research, to identify strategies that could engage and retain this population of nurses.
To complete
By Day 7 of Week 10
Submit a 3- to 5-page paper in which you do the following:
- Identify the demographic breakdown of employees in the organization. If you are unable to access exact demographical data, provide your best estimate for each of the following age ranges: 20–30, 30–40, 40–50, 50–60, and 60–70, and 70+.
- Describe at least two ways the work environment is conducive to older workers and at least two difficulties it might present. Support your response by citing authentic examples from the workplace and this week’s Learning Resources as applicable.
- Propose at least four specific strategies you could implement to engage and retain older workers.
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: THE WORKPLACE
Managing Older Workers in the Workplace
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THE WORKPLACE
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Managing Older Workers in the Workplace
The proportion of baby boomers in the working population has been increasing at an
alarming rate. However, with the rapidly changing employment environment, they remain an
integral part of competitiveness for many organization. In as far as the success of an organization
is concerned, older employees were initially preferred to younger employees since most
employers were convinced that older employees are experienced and committed to their work,
thus they do not require any training in the workforce (Guillaume et al., 2017). Although older
employees grapple with the challenges of new technology and navigating the workplace grounds,
employers have created a conducive environment for them by providing support and
accommodation, facilitating their use of technology, and creating time for physical exercise.
Employee commitment to work and the organization is largely affected by the
demographic data which clearly indicate the demographic breakdown of employees in a given
organization. The demographic breakdown of employees varies in terms of the employees’ age,
culture, race, and ethnicity....