...lack of manners", Rasmus Karkov. Through out the years a lot of respect has been lost. The generation today, as a whole, is viewed heavily on the lack of respect. There are numerous factors that need to be considered when it comes to a generations habits. Across the board respect is important, but how it is shown can differ. With the generation gap it can be hard to understand where each and another are coming from. Many people are aware of the declining of respect. What they do not know is where it originates from. Some of the sources can be pretty surprising. There are many aspects that effect a persons view of respect and how they choose to show it. Respect- The feeling of deep admiration for someone elicited by...
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...traditions and to behave the way the new community would accept them. For more illustration I will mention a story that uncovered how deep the generation gap and the difference in beliefs and thoughts between parents and children are. "The Joy Luck Club" is a sufficient example that displayed how the Chinese mother's character and thoughts never meet her daughter's. They argued about many issues in life such as, the way the daughter should cut her hair, giving a tip of the waiter in the restaurant and choosing her partner in life. Through different stories and this specially, I could link between the background and the story and to know that this generation gap was the result of having their children raised in...
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...maintain positive emotional well-being even with all the adversities they had experienced, and this shows resilience (Bundy-Fazioli et al., 2013). Grandparents do have negative outcomes at times, but their ability to adapt and be flexible can be associated with resilient individuals (Bundy-Fazioli et al., 2013). Robinson and Wilks (2006) conducted a study with custodial grandparents to look at issues regarding being the caregiver of a grandchild. A sample size of 25 grandparents was obtained from a grandparents’ support groups, and qualitative data was obtained, and the themes found were generation gap, health concern, problems of discipline, and relationship strain with spouses (Robinson & Wilks, 2006). With the first area was the generation...
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...Life Changes Christopher Cookson Sociology: SSCI210 - 1304A – 04 Unit 4 – Individual Project Abstract Studies show that family life has changed since 1960. There are many things that have affected the way that this has happened. From the actual size of families to the way that children in today’s families are raised. This paper will demonstrate some of the reasons that these things have changed and the reasoning behind it. Life Changes Over time there has been a large increase in single parent families. There are many different situations that cause these single parent families i.e. divorce, death, unmarried parents, and more. The growth of single parent families has a huge impact on what was considered normal for a family. The single parent household has a huge impact on how children are raised provided for and many other aspects that affect how children are molded. This truly affects and has affected how family life is looked at in today’s society. There are more and more single parent families on a daily basis due to people not learning the responsibilities that are required to have a true family life. (Ellwood & Jencks, 2002). To compare today’s family life to that during the 1960’s would be like comparing night and day. To have a single family household during that time was looked down upon and rarely heard of. As well, the actual size of families has decreased. The reasoning behind this is said to be modernization and the...
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...Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, G eneration Y (and Generation Z) Working Together WHAT MATTERS AND HOW THEY LEARN? h ow different are they? fact and fiction Executive Office, Talent Management Team United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund New York Secretariat Headquarters Overcoming Generational Gap in the Workplace Rational for Introducing the Generational Communication Gap into the Workplace Casey Carlson!& Deloitte & Touche Study ! Fundamental Questions! Where does your personal view fall in the following generational change spectrum? Level 5: “The generation of people in the top boxes is the only one that matters…the rest just need to grow up or shut up.” Level 3: “The generational change is an emerging issue within our organization but we haven’t done much about it.” Level 2: “We view generational change as an emerging opportunity.” Level 1: “We’re actively changing the work culture to harness! the power of generational change.” Differences in Opinion and Attitude “This generational stuff is just socially acceptable stereotyping…politically correct rationale offered for immature behavior” “When is someone going to ask me what I need?” “Doesn’t everyone want the same thing anyway?” “Even if this generational stuff were true, this is still planet earth and we know how our business needs to be run for it to be a success” “Can we go back to work now? These kids will either get with the program or they’ll leave just like they always...
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...alive even though many people have lost confident in the Great Recession. Under the difficult economic circumstances today, Brandon redefines the American Dream as the potential to work for an honest, secure way of life and save for the future according to the more intense spending habits of Americans. In order to living the American Dream, Brandon lists solutions to three main problems, inequality, economic insecurity and eroded faith in the American Dream. In sum, he believes that though existing, inequality is not a reason for the lost of American Dream in the poor and supporting the top businesses would help the recovery of economy. He also highlights the values and rules of the American Dream, which would help living and inheritance of this spirit. From my perspective, I agree with the main problems he concludes but for some of his solutions, I stand on the opposite site of the author. I think narrowing the income gap is very significant and so do supporting businesses, while the dependence of the spirit itself is in the less important position. Following are my analysis of each argument. According to the article, inequality is regarded as the most worrisome problem by many people. In contrast with economists like Robert Reich and Paul Krugman who believe that the concentration of wealth at the top would not help living the American Dream because it enlarges the income gap and exacerbates the Great Recession, Brandon thinks the income gap is not the excuse for losing American...
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...situations daily. One of these types of situations occurs due to the fact that there are four generations present for the first time in America’s History. Generational differences can affect many aspects at work. In order to be able to work in such a diversified environment, management needs to identify the most effective methods for identifying potential conflicts and the best practice for resolution of the conflict. In order to grasp the most accurate and respectable feedback for each generation, a little background on each of the four generations characteristics is needed. The first generation, the traditionalist (born prior to 1946), are typically either retired or at retirement age but choose to continue working for various reasons. Traditionalist, also known as veterans or the silent generation, are typically hard working and loyal but are technologically challenged in most areas. Veterans tend to prefer class room style education and face-to-face contact for communication. They have been raised to pride themselves on their commitments and promises. Traditionalist would prefer to shake hands on a deal and honor the word of the other person. The next generation, Baby Boomers (born approximately between 1946 – 1964) incorporate the largest numbers in the workforce. Boomers have a strong work ethic which involved working long hours in the office to rise to the top. This generation makes...
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...positioned itself well to capitalize on the emerging trends in the national defense market place. Northrop has developed new technologies and internal infrastructure to sustain new business in the new technologies departments. NG is also strong in personnel, although there is a troubling trend emerging. NG has a long history of dedicated workers but has failed to retain or attract new talent. There is a growing gap between the experienced knowhow and the new employees. NG has a large gap in the middle of the workforce. The majority of the work force is either five years from retirement or has less than five years with the company. Therefore the “local knowledge” that is essential for continuing seamless operations as the older generation moves on is failing to be passed down to the newer generation of employees. NG has recognized this problem and has created work groups within most sectors of the company that pair newer employees with seasoned veterans in an attempt to create a better unity and work environment as well as pass down the knowledge that the younger generation will require to continue the...
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...BRIDGING THE GAP – EDUCATORS & EMPLOYERS ROSY MERLIN IRUDAYARAJ Campus Recruitment, The School of Business Logistics merlin@tsbl.in , 9962891491 ABSTRACT This paper elaborates on the necessity of educators and employers partnering to bridge the gap, the gap that is defined to be the workforce supply and demand mismatch. The accelerated economic growth has increased the demand for skilled manpower that has highlighted the shortage of skilled manpower in the country. Today’s competitive world demands trained, certified and skilled workforce to address the challenges emerging out of rapid growth. Our present education system is more focused on the transfer of information and knowledge from the educator to the learner with less opportunity for applied learning and is less focused on other employable skills required for building a holistic career as adopted by other countries. The prevailing unemployability challenges has resulted in situations where employers are likely to point educators for producing candidates who aren't meeting their expectations. It is the responsibility for educators to produce employable candidates by preparing students for a successful transitions in their careers. Hence, the need of the hour is to synergize the efforts and resources to provide feasible platform for skill development, educators partnering with employers can effectively build workforce with skills that align with the requirements of domestic and global industry sectors. This is the...
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...Two Cultures: Bridging the Gap with Etic and Emic Viewpoint Culture is defined as a learned system of beliefs, feelings, and rules for living through which they organize their lives. Culture is a way of life that is passed from one generation to the next, and societies within the culture are guided by their learned system of beliefs, feelings, and rules for living. Within the customs of their culture, people within society are taught that they share some common understandings with one another. Being taught the customs, members of society are expected to follow the traditional customs of the group. Cultural relativism recognizes that different cultures have distinct social trajectories, or chosen paths (Carpo, 2013). In understanding a specific custom within a culture, it is important to view the culture from an outside perspective (etic). This is exactly what I will demonstrate within the first section of this paper while expanding and discovering another culture from an inside perspective (emic) which shows how even though customs are different within various cultures a different viewpoint can illuminate the entire picture and bridge the gap between both cultures – the Aboriginals and African Americans. Part I – Religion and the African American Culture among Other Things Religion and the Black Church in African American society, in regards to the socio-cultural, economic and political issues of the 20th century, has branched the African American experience of mere individual...
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...The Ripple Effect of Technology Troy Lindberg DeVry University The Ripple Effect of Technology OMG Where’s My Phone!! Figure 1 We have become so dependent on mobile phones that their loss certainly causes emotional and mental distress. (MIREVIEW, 2015) Figure 1 We have become so dependent on mobile phones that their loss certainly causes emotional and mental distress. (MIREVIEW, 2015) Some people believe that technology is the best thing since sliced bread. It is so ingrained in people’s lives that most individuals’ believe that they couldn’t function without it. A testament of this would be the frantic reaction one gets when they believe that they have misplaced their phone. It resembles the reaction of a mother when her child has gone missing. We laugh at this analogy but the thought should be sobering enough to open your eyes. It has been found that the average teenager spends approximately 133 hours a month absorbed in some form of technology or social media (OAH, 2013). That is almost four and a half hours a day. What is the allure that keeps them returning as if it were an addiction? It’s this dependence that drives me to proclaim that technology is a detriment to the social development of youth. How did we get here? Positive Development Computers have been in existence since 1936 but it wasn’t until 1991, when Tim Berners Less came up with the World Wide Web, starting the computer revolution and computers as we know it. There is a plethora of information on...
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...essay, he argues that the benefits of industrialization outweigh the negatives, saying, “To-day the world obtains commodities of excellent quality at prices which even the generation preceding this would have deemed incredible. In the commercial world similar causes have produced similar results, and the race is benefited thereby. The poor enjoy what the rich could not before afford. What were the luxuries have become the necessaries of life. The laborer has now more comforts than the landlord had a few generations ago. The farmer has more luxuries than the landlord had, and is more richly clad and better housed. The landlord has books and pictures rarer, and appointments more artistic, than the King could then obtain.” For the given time period, I am forced to disagree with this quote for the same reason that the poor likely would have. As discussed in “American Horizons- US History in a Global Content”, although this was a time of much technological advancement, there was also a widening gap between the upper and lower class. In The Gospel of Wealth, Carnegie says, “The poor enjoy what the rich could not before afford”. Although this may have been true, it is important to understand the circumstances of the time period. Yes, the poor could indulge in things that were once luxuries “a few generations ago”, but these were not necessarily still considered to be luxuries, since the rich were able to treat themselves to luxuries that were much more magnificent then ever before...
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...Purchase Order System at ABC Company Gap Analysis of Purchase order system at ABC Company Consolidated report detailing site wise PO’s and collection made No systematic monitoring of Cash flows Shooting E mails attaching the Bills to Supplier, Project Manager and Account Department Manual Triplication of Bill Centralized automated Purchase order numbering system Uncontrolled Purchase order numbering Downloadable file option for Pos maintained on the portal Hard Copies lost when removed from file for discussions/clarification Ticket to be raised before any changes and Communication of changes to the supplier given after the changes are recorded in the system Changes in PO are communicated to supplier over Phone hence improper recording Maintenance of Master Price List and Supplier List Different prices for same item ordered Control Register details maintained in a Database of a system Manual Control Register As Is System To Be System Requirement Analysis 1) List Requirements I. System generated PO number with User and location component coded. II. PO can be viewed/saved in PDF form from the application. Same can then be printed III. Every PO raised for a particular project is routed to that project’s PM for approval. He can also consolidate orders for the same supplier before forwarding them. IV. Every change to a PO(by PM/supplier) raised as a separate ticket...
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...Sometimes innocent scenarios or things said can oppress a person and make one feel less valuable than they really are. When women are out in the world, do not forget to treat females equally, no matter what is being said in this society, because at some point the young women in this generation have to break through that invisible barrier. Women as a whole may have a glass ceiling in the workplace, but chances are that each individual has created one in life. Whatever it is, find it and smash through it. Somebody might be watching, and seeing that could give this generation the inspiration to continue the movement for women’s equality in...
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...face to HRM in today’s market is: i. Workplace Diversity According to Thomas (1992), dimensions of workplace diversity include, but are not limited to age, ethnicity, ancestry, gender, and etc. Employers in industry sectors like manufacturing or labor intensive industries are facing difficulties in attracting young people. They resort to hiring foreign workers instead of retirees, who are often fully trained and capable of productive work. ii. Cultural Change Cultural changes define as attitudes, beliefs, values, and customs of people in society are integral part of their culture. Employers will high percentages of older employees have begun to feel the impact of lost talent as Baby Boomers near retirement age of 55 and above. Their concerns are exacerbated by fewer employees from younger generation who are keen to work in routine or mundane jobs with unattractive salary packages. Sometimes, it is no longer the “work hard” but the “work easy” attitude for the young ones. iii. Aging Workforce According to Society of Human Resource Management (June 2003), aging workforce is survey of human professional revealed that management varies greatly in their opinion with age ranging being between 40-70 years. It will increase risk of losing important corporate knowledge that exists only in minds of select few if knowledge management systems are not in place to capture and codify their knowledge. iv. Technology Technology is making, modification, usage, and knowledge of...
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