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Strategies To Improve Productivity Of A Multigenerational Workforce, Grace Elizabeth Beasley
Strategies To Improve Productivity Of A Multigenerational Workforce, Grace Elizabeth Beasley
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that millennials will soon represent 46% of the workforce. The anticipated changes in the workforce are of great concern to business leaders who may manage individuals from different generations. The purpose of this multiple case study was to explore the strategies that administrative leaders in an advisory group of community-based organizations and educational institutions used to improve the productivity of a multigenerational workforce. The conceptual frameworks that grounded this study were the social constructivist perspective and generational theory. Data were collected from semistructured interviews to elicit narratives from 6 administrative leaders from 6 …
Strategies For Employee Engagement In A Small Business Enterprise, Jennifer L. Kizer
Strategies For Employee Engagement In A Small Business Enterprise, Jennifer L. Kizer
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
In 2013, 35% of the workforce was not engaged, which results in lack of productivity and loss of profitability for small business enterprises (SBEs). The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore successful strategies that frontline leaders in a 4 generation, family-owned excavating business used to engage their frontline employees. The excavating business was started in 1947 by the father of the current business owners. William Kahn's employee engagement theory was the conceptual framework for this study. Data were collected through a focus group and direct observations of engagement during meetings and frontline areas from a population of …
Midlevel Manager Strategies To Improve Employee Engagement In Small Businesses, Patricia Ann Silva
Midlevel Manager Strategies To Improve Employee Engagement In Small Businesses, Patricia Ann Silva
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The ability to improve employee engagement in small businesses is critical, not only to workers but also to midlevel managers who want to retain productive employees in the workplace. Supervisors who lack efficient managerial practices also risk decreases in productivity, profitability, and sustainability. The conceptual framework for this qualitative, exploratory single-case study was Kahn's theory of personal engagement and disengagement. The population consisted of 2 midlevel managers from a single, small, franchise company in metropolitan Alabama, both of whom used engagement practices, and managed at least 5 subordinates in the company. Data collected, analyzed, and triangulated were from semistructured interviews, …