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The Role Of Stereotypes In The Workplace

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The way to overcome this challenge in the workplace is for companies to host events to celebrate accomplishments and achievements, so that it can help them balance out their company culture (Gausepohl, 2016). These events are also done, so that the different generations can learn about each other. Through these events, companies should try to create a company culture that takes into consideration of all the generations, so that everyone can work together without any disagreements about the culture of the company (Srivastava). The next challenge that generations face in the workplace is communication. In today’s workplace, there are many different ways to communicate with a co-worker, such as using letters, emails, telephones, text, …show more content…

All the generations believe that there are certain negative stereotypes associated with each age group and these stereotypes can cause conflicts and challenges in the workplace because one generation will think they are better than another which will cause the generations to not work well with each other. For example, the stereotypes that older generations believe that Millennials have are that they are lazy, entitled, tech obsessed, and overeager while the Millennials view the older generations as being too stubborn to change and difficult to train (Srivastava). Stereotypes in the workplace is a big challenge for many organizations that have many generations working together, but the best way to tackle this problem is for leaders of a company to instill in their workers to not label other generations and not let the perceived stereotypes change how they view all age groups (Gausepohl, 2016). In addition, the leaders are also encouraged to get involved in any problems that are forming in their company and they should take immediate action to resolve them. The main reason why stereotypes in the workplace is a challenge is because of the pride and ignorance that each generation has that creates these beliefs about each age group. The way to eliminate this kind of thinking is by focusing more on the ability of an individual and not the age of the person, so that pride and ignorance does not blind a person’s judgement about another individual

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