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Diversity and Age

You have just received an e-mail from one of you team members expressing concern
about the lack of cultual balance in you team- The team member feels that she has
fewer opportunities to train compared to her younger peers and that her ideas are
often disregarded by others since they assume that she is not well-informed regarding
technology or strategy.

You are initially suprised on reading this e-mail, given that you have a team that
seems ethnically diverse. However, the team member is concerned because she is
fifty-two years old, while the age of the next oldest person on the team is thirty-nine-
When you really look at you team, the average age is thirty-fou. Given this
information, you note cultual differences based on generational factors that could be
pertinent. These should be aduessed to help the team work in a more cohesive and
productive manner.

Based on the above scenario, using the module readings, Argosy University online
library resouces, and the Internet, respond to the following:

Training is one of the ways you can aduess cultual issues; however, do you think it
is necessary in this case?

What would you diversity training look like? Provide details on the time, format, and
topics covered-

What resouces would you use, and what issues would you aduess Of any) with
human resouces? Would you take any other actions in addition to training?