...Technology, and its effect on the world has always been argued to be both a gift and a curse. A large majority of those who were born during the Baby Boomer generation and many other skeptics have argued that technology has been corrupting society and has enacted to become brainwashed while becoming de-evolved. This statement has become a cliché with those of the older, wiser generation. This cliché can both be supported and refuted because technology has not only made strides in improvement of education, health and society. But it can also be argued that it has led to social unrest, poor health, malice in educational field towards the student and teacher. Those without technology have proven to suffer tremendously and the argument can be made...
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...BEHAVIOR AMONG BABY BOOMERS, GENERATION X AND GENERATION Y By Nortini Isahak Table of Contents Page Introduction 2 1.0 Work Behavior Characteristic between Baby boomers, Generation X and Generation Y 1.1 Baby Boomers 3 1.2 Generation X 4 1.3 Generation Y 5 2.0 The Challenge 2.1 Characteristics of each generation 6 2.2 Perception of other generations 7 3.0 Leadership Styles for Different Generational Groups 9 4.0 Recommendation 11 Conclusion 13 References 14 ABSTRACT Generation Y (born 1981 and 2000) is young worker, Generation X (born 1965-1980) is middle generation and Baby Boomers (Born 1946-1964) is older employers. Usually young workers want to make a quick impact, the middle generation needs to believe in the mission, and older employees don’t like ambivalence. It is important organization to take time and build the trusting relationship where each generation brings ahead their potentials and works towards the organization goal. The leaders should recognize the different work characteristics between generational groups and apply leadership styles that will positively contribute to employee motivation. As a result, due to the shifting nature of the job/task itself and the changing nature of subordinate characteristics and behavior. Leadership styles have also had to make changes. Accordingly, a task-oriented leadership style is more acceptable to Baby boomers but Generation X and Generation...
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...Suicide and the Baby Boomer Generation Rob Kovack ITT Technical Institute Abstract The rate of suicide among white baby boomer men has increased dramatically from 1999 to 2010. Many professionals and academics have conducted extensive research to find a conclusion for this unexplained trend among the boomer generation. Professionals such as Dr. Phillips and Augustine J. Kposowa, have different theories that were determined by their own studies and research. The theories range from marital problems and social isolation to the economy and long-term unemployment. The CDC statics confirm that the causes of death are by firearms, suffocation, and poisoning. The increase of poisoning suicides has been due to prescription pain medication overdoses. Thomas Joiner believes in suicidal behaviors and characteristics in all ages and sex, not as a predisposed category of individuals. Leonard Steinhorn disagrees with the CDC statistics for the suicide rate in boomers and conveys his own research that was created by two doctors. Although, this chart contradicts the CDC statistics, it is also not as credible as a government agency that specifically analyzes suicide research on a daily basis. Suicide and the Baby Boomer Generation Suicide has been plaguing our society for decades and has no intention of declining any time soon. The latest Mortality Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a 30 percent increase in middle-aged Americans committing...
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...Adapting to suit an audience Many factors can affect how you communicate with an audience. Things like their age, ethnicity and gender matter. Since everyone may have a different cultural background, certain things may not be socially acceptable to say or do. For example if the audience is a group of children or young adults, it wouldn’t be acceptable to raise your voice when you are angry or upset because it would frighten rather than intrigue them. Also when dealing with audiences with different ages you might have a problem with the terminology you use. The baby Boomer generation and the Y generation use different types of terminology so conveying your message would be difficult. Engaging the Audience Engaging the audience can be difficult at times. You must be informed when speaking but also keep them entertained so they don’t lose interest. When doing an oral presentation keeping the same monotone throughout will make the audience grow bored of your voice. Speaking to a group of people makes it hard for them to interact with you so you wouldn’t know if they fully understood you or didn’t understand and hear you. Speaking to an audience can cause nervousness as well. It may cause you to tense up or forget what you were going to say. There needs to be a perfect balance because if you engage with them...
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...Are Baby Boomers Redefining Old Age? An Annotated Bibliography Critical Preface In January, 2008, the oldest baby boomer turned 62; old enough to collect social security. Although I am a late baby boomer, born in 1960, I wasn’t aware of the impact the baby boomers, (the more than 78 million people born between 1946 and 1964), have had on how our society looks at old age. For this research project, I have sought to determine if baby boomers have, indeed, redefined old age. Specifically, I am looking to answer the following questions: If baby boomers are redefining old age, how are they doing so? What do baby boomers intend to do with their time? What events have caused the desire to redefine old age? How will this affect other generations? Are baby boomers financially prepared for a longer lifespan? In answering these questions I hope to find out if baby boomers are truly redefining old age or if they are just surviving hardships caused by or resulting from their past. This research was conducted from May 2 through May 4, 2009. The resources contained in the bibliography are: 4 articles from popular magazines, 1 article from a scholarly journal, and 2 radio broadcasts. These sources show how/if baby boomers are redefining old age, what events have caused this desire, and what affects redefining old age will have on other generations. One article in particular that has helped me to answer the main question is the article by Barbara Wickens that shows how past experiences...
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...Demographic Paper: Baby Boomers Impact Your name HCS/490 Teacher name When it comes to the Baby Boomers Impact towards the Health Care Systems, there is only one that may wonder how they will as Baby Boomers population and their demographics impact health care systems in future generations. The subject of this reading will address this question and focus on the Baby Boomers population demographics, and explain the changes these demographics will have on health care systems in regard to patient’s needs and services. Along with explain the way demographic data informs companies the way services or products can successfully be marketed to Baby Boomers and how communities and the society needs to work together to correct demographic challenges Baby Boomers will encounter as they age. Population Demographics Most individuals tend to relate to the phrase Baby Boomers to oneself, father, mother, aunt, and uncle or even a grandfather or grandmother. According to the Unites States Census Bureau (2009), describes Baby Boomers as individuals born between 1946 and 1968 and as of 2009 there were 77,329,698 Baby Boomers living in the United States. The American elderly population based on the United States Census Bureau is rapidly growing therefore so will the impact on changing demographics. Impact of Changing Demographics on the Health Care Market According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2007), the impact that Baby Boomer changing demographics will have...
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...Demographic Paper Your name Course # Date Instructor Name The aging population and the Baby Boomers are becoming a dominant demographic in the United States. The Baby Boomer generation is the biggest generation in American history. There are approximately 75 million people in America. The average life span and the age of retirement has increased, the need for medications for a longer period , and chronic illnesses are examples of how the aging population and the Baby Boomer generation will contribute to changes in the health care field. “Future and current demographics play an important role in determining the supply and demand of health care workers” (HRS, p. 3). Projected demographics that will affect health care include the increased life span of the aging population, and geographic location of the population. The rise in the population percentage of the elderly over the next decade will cause a n increase in the demand for more health care workers, and medications. Concerns that the demands for health care professionals will not be met because of the financial stress placed on Medicaid, Medicare, private insurance companies, and the patients out of pocket expenses. Many physicians are in the same demographic as the aging population. These physicians may retire around the same time. The healthcare for the elderly population will increase will less physicians to care for them. Positive changes to the health...
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...Michael Nix December 12, 2008 Economics Professor Hamilton Baby boomers effect on generation X and Y During the next five to 10 years, millions of baby boomers will be retiring, essentially heading for the exits en masse. This exodus will create a demographically driven worker shortage that will put the power back into the hands of the job seekers. That means that today’s workers will eventually be able to say good-bye to static or shrinking paychecks, and that today’s unemployed can look for an end to all that pavement pounding. Peter Cappelli, a management professor and the director of the Center for Human Resources at The Wharton School, conducted research that questioned these assumptions about the potential economic impact of an aging employee population. Cappelli found that any projected labor shortage caused by retiring boomers is, in fact, a complete fiction. True, the generation following the boomers the so-called baby busters is about 16 percent smaller than its predecessor, but with an average age of 30, the busters, who already have been in the workforce for a number of years won’t be retiring anytime soon and are both willing and more important, able to fill any voids left by the departing boomers. Add to that the fact that the generation after the busters is composed of the boomers’ offspring and is therefore relatively large, and that many members of that generation are currently in college and will be looking for work in a few years. Putting...
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...Baby boomers are the first generation to actively declare a higher priority for work over personal life. They generally distrust authority and large systems. Their values were shaped primarily by a rise in civil rights activism, Viet Nam, and inflation. They are more optimistic and open to change than the prior generation, but they are also responsible for the “Me Generation,” with its pursuit of personal gratification, which often shows up as a sense of entitlement in today’s work force. Because of the fall of the dot.com marketplace, retirement savings of Baby Boomers were decimated and many now find themselves having to work longer than they had planned. A recent AARP survey of 2,001 people born in this era revealed that 63% plan to work...
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...World Wide Web: traditionalists, baby boomers, generation Xers and Millennials at work. The article written by Lynn Lancaster and David Stillman: “From World War I to the World Wide Web: traditionalists, baby boomers, generation Xers and millennials at work” is an excerpt from a book written by Lancaster and Stillman entitled , “When Generations Collide: Who They Are. Why They Clash. How to Solve the Generational Puzzle at Work.” This article discusses four separate distinct generations that make up the modern day workforce. The Traditionalists or individuals born between 1900 and 1945 make up approximately seventy-five million people. The largest population ever born in this country, the Baby Boomers, born between 1946-1964, total approximately eighty million. The smallest numbered group of approximately forty-six million, the Generation Xers, were born between 1965-1980, and the Millennials, born between 1981-1999, make up of approximately seventy-six million. Lancaster and Stillman, (2003). Sandra Gibson in her article, “E N H A N C I N G: Intergenerational Communication in the Classroom: Recommendations for Successful Teacher-Student Relationships”, discusses how the generations differ. Traditionalists, many of which have made up the labor pool for thirty years or more are often described as loyal, ethical, and hardworking, placing high value on formality, respect for authority and security of past successes. Gibson (2009). Baby Boomer are known to crave recognition...
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...discussing the main differences between two generations, to be specific I will be comparing Generation Y, and the Baby Boomers. Belonging to generation Y I know first hand all the criticism and complaints people have about us, especially the baby boomers, who think that everything we have ever owned has either been given to us or we probably stole it, so I’m here to defend my generation and also shed some light on the truth between these two different generations. Generation Y is the generation of people born during the 1980s and early 1990s. The name is based on Generation X, the generation that preceded them. Members of Generation Y are often referred to as echo boomers because they are the children of parents born during the baby boom. Because children born during this time period have had constant access to technology in their youth, they have required many employers to update their hiring strategy in order to incorporate updated forms of technology. Also called millennials, echo boomers, internet generation, iGen, net generation. The Baby Boomers are a person who was born between 1946 and 1964. The baby boomer generation makes up a substantial portion of the North American population. Representing nearly 20% of the American public, baby boomers have a significant impact on the economy. As a result, baby boomers are often the focus of marketing campaigns and business plans ( businessdictionary.com). The Baby Boomer generation understood that they are not owed anything...
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...Rajashree Gopinath 25/02/2013 Principles of marketing Prof John O’Malley THE AMERICAN BABY BOOMER More babies were born in 1946 than ever before in the United States of America. Statistics indicate that 3.4 million people were born, which is 20 percent more than in 1945. This was the beginning of the so-called “baby boom.” In 1947, another 3.8 million babies were born and more than 4 million were born every year from 1954 until 1964. By then, there were 76.4 million “baby boomers” in the United States. They made up almost 40 percent of the nation’s population. So by definition baby boomers are the large number of people born worldwide between 1946 and 1964. History The Great depression and the World War II had just ended. This was the time when two of the most dreadful events of the world took its break. People who had postponed marriage during the Great depression and World War II had begun to consider starting a family. According to statistics between 1940- 1945, only 8% of women opted out of having babies. They started doing so because they began to think that the future holds comfort and prosperity. In a way they were rite. The then “American dream” was met by the passing of the GI bill on June 1944. Due to this, loans for homes and farms were made available to GIs at low interest rates, and low or no down payment was provided, which meant that it was cheaper to buy houses in suburban areas than to rent an apartment in the city. Hence people began...
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...Southern Cross University ePublications@SCU Southern Cross Business School 2003 The generation gap and cultural influence: a Taiwan empirical investigation Huichun Yu Peter Miller Southern Cross University Publication details Post-print of: Yu, HC & Miller, P 2003, 'The generation gap and cultural influence: a Taiwan empirical investigation', Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, vol.10, no. 3, pp. 23-41. Published version available from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13527600310797621 ePublications@SCU is an electronic repository administered by Southern Cross University Library. Its goal is to capture and preserve the intellectual output of Southern Cross University authors and researchers, and to increase visibility and impact through open access to researchers around the world. For further information please contact epubs@scu.edu.au. Post-print of: Yu, HC & Miller, P 2003, 'The generation gap and cultural influence: a Taiwan empirical investigation', Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, vol.10, no. 3, pp. 23-41. The authors Hui-Chun, Yu is a DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) candidate in the Graduate College of Management of Southern Cross University, New South Wales, Australia. Dr Peter Miller is a senior lecturer in the School of Social and Workplace Development at Southern Cross University, New South Wales, Australia. Contact details: Southern Cross University Division of Business PO Box 42 Tweed Heads NSW 2485...
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...Boomers Key to Economic Growth Brian Dennison ENGL103-X-1502B-08 Boomers Key to Economic Growth Introduction The Baby Boomers that have become the fascination of most economic concerns in the United States were born between the years of 1946 and 1964. It is estimated that over 75 million people were born from all nationalities during this period. The Baby Boomers have been divided into two periods; leading edge which were born from 1946 to about 1955 and late boomers who were born from 1956 to about 1964. Baby boomers are more than just a group to be followed because of their potential to help the overall economy because of the size of the group (Hardy, 2013), but also for the potential perils that could happen as this group begins to pull on the resources of the United States. 1946 to 1964 has opened the doorway to the greatest potential for economic superiority for the United States through the birth of the Baby Boomer Generation. Key Economic Issues for Baby Boomers The more than 75 million baby boomers were starting to be born in 1946 which meant that companies that sold items appropriate for babies and their parents were taking shape. One of the companies that were spawned during this period was Gerber Product Company sold baby items from 1927, but the huge birthrates during the baby boomer generation allowed the company to skyrocket in sales. The needs of the baby boomers have driven the direction that many companies have taken from the time they came upon...
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...Silent Generation 1925-1942 The silent generation was an adaptive generation. Parents were immigrants and the generation was shaped by World War II and the Korean War. Some of the characteristics of the silent generation are: Valued hard work and thriftiness, more traditional, hard work, conformity, consistency, and uniformity. Valued systems over individual enterprise. Baby Boomer Generation 1943-1960 This generation was an idealist generation. Parents had secure jobs and were optimistic about their future. World views were shaped by the Korean War. Some of the characteristics of the baby boomer generation are: Have the buy now pay later mentality, rebellious, moved away from extended families, identify with their jobs, and are driven and dedicated. Generation X 1961-1981 Generation X was a reactive type generation. Parents were not family centered, they worked a lot and many were divorced. World views were shaped by the Iran Hostage Situation. Some characteristics of Generation X were: they were ironic and cynical, define themselves by their parents, do not belong to any group, they were comfortable with technology. The Silent Generation: The children who grew up in this generation had to work very hard but they were very quiet. One practice used here was “children are to be seen not heard.” During the Great Depression many families were forced to live on the streets, because there was not enough jobs or money to live. During the period of the “Dust Bowl” several...
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