Posted: February 8th, 2015

Creating a Welcoming Workplace for the Older Worker

Creating a Welcoming Workplace for the Older Worker

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 a current healthcare organization 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 scholarly research, to identify strategies that could engage and retain this population of nurses.
The assignment
Write a1-2 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