...Millennials: Benefits in the Workplace Melvina Turner University of the Incarnate Word Submitted to Dr. Rochelle Caroon-Santiago In Partial fulfillment of the Requirements of Scientific Literacy in Psych V1 Sp116 (PSYC2320_V1_Sp116) March 2, 2016 Table of Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………3 Millennials Overcoming Stereotypes……………………………………………………………...4 Benefits of Technology and Mentors……………………………………………………………...5 Future of Millennials and Positive Qualities……...…..…………………………………………..6 Impact on Success………………………………………………………………………………....7 Retention and Promotion………………………………………………………………………….8 Furthering Research………………………………………………………………………..…….10 Conclusion………………………………....…………………………………………………….11 References……………………………………………………………………………………..…12 Abstract As Millennials begin to dominate the workplace, it has begun to cause a shift in beliefs, values, abilities, and success. It can now be seen that Millennials provide benefits to employers in the workplace (Alsop, 2008). Millennials bring different characteristics to the working environment, regardless of their stereotypes. Their use of technology can be utilized as a positive attributed and thus an impact on their success. Millennials are also seeking a coaching or mentoring environment through reverse mentoring. The impact Millennials will have in the workplace is one of success and the desire to work better, but they also need positive reinforcement. Millennials are also seeking an...
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...Wireless Technology Ripton Powell BIS/221 08/17/15 Martin Mueller Wireless Technology in the Workplace Wireless technology has become one of the fastest rising staples used in the workplace today. It has impacted the way we all function in the workplace in many different aspects, some positive and some negative. Online, there are articles by Aaron Charles of Demand Media, covering a few different aspects of the effects that wireless technology have on the workplace and the employees of these workplaces. Collaboration, mobilization, security & distractions are some of the effects; they all play a crucial role in the growth and well being of the business based on how they are managed. Positive Effects In the workplace, there are certain amenities that will allow for increased productivity compared to an atmosphere without them. The wireless networks in tandem with the technology that utilizes their benefits such as smartphones, tablets and wireless computers to make communication more efficient. By making it easier to connect with coworkers, there becomes a new array of possibilities that present themselves. The reduction in the amount of travel that is required to get the same amount of work done plays a huge part in all of this, in fact the article states “…the IAAP poll also showed that 86 percent of surveyed execs think that workers will be more accessible for collaboration in the future – even while on vacation.” Telecommunicating has become a phenomenon...
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...filled with diversity and mobility and technology. If we acknowledge what's constant in the world of work this will help us adapt to changes in the workplace yet to come. Presently the workplaces are filled with veterans, baby boomers, Generation X, Y and the now entering Generation Z. Other changes in the workplace will include a balance of virtual and physical work locations. Technological advances will create new careers and multiple skill requirements that will challenge the jobs as we know then now. The recruiting process will change in the methods we use to find talent as well as the specific skill requirements. The benefits of diversifying a workplace, is an extensive pool of talents as well as a better perception in the international market. Besides the pool of candidates , diversification shows an understanding of the global market (Bowes, Barbara). Four distinct, age-based associates exist in the workplace with a generation gap of fifty or more years between the oldest and youngest employees. Traditionalists created our current work structure. They entered the workforce when the economy was growing and experienced how hard work led to advancement. Baby Boomers entered the workforce in a time of growth but had to come to work early and stay late to stand out from the multitude. Generation X got held up by the Baby Boomers and missed some advancement opportunity because the position was filled by those who entered the workplace a few years ahead of them. Generation...
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...impact of technology tools such as internet in work performance. Does the ability to engage in leisure activities such as Facebook, Twitter and other social networking tools during work improve productivity, or does it act as a distraction? The significant increase of technology and connectivity in the workplace in recent years has lead to an unexpected, potentially negative, by-product of behaviours demonstrated by many employees, which is now commonly referred to as cyberloafing, cyberdeviancy or cyberslacking. While on the surface the initial response by most business owners and managers is that cyberloafing is a wasteful activity costing the company money through loss of productivity as a result of employees spending company time on personal endeavours, there has been another, more positive spin off, to the personal use of technology. These aspects have been investigated and expanded upon during numerous investigations into these behaviours. It has also been found that there are several factors within the workplace, such as technology use policies, that can contribute to employee behaviours in relation to use of company provided technologies that will be explored within this essay. 1 While many business owners and managers would like to see the occurrence of cyberloafing in the workplace eradicated completely there is plenty of evidence available from multiple independent studies that not all personal technology use in the...
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...He has had good success integrating technology with Century’s systems and processes over the past four years. He has earned the trust and respect of the people of the company by helping them with these new programs and technology. Even long time HR employee Ethel Moore, who was very skeptical and afraid of these new technical advances came to Sam with an idea for a web-based job posting system. They both worked together and created a team developing an idea for a web-based program linking managers, internal recruiters, and applicants to assist with internal hiring and job posts. Current Vice President Sandra Ivey was on board right away and the team was authorized to start work on the project within a few weeks. Everything was going well until Mrs. Ivey resigned. Mr. Tom Carr took over as the new vice president and had little or no interest in this project. He felt it was a waste of time. In fact, it seemed like he had no interest in technology and its uses. He felt that the HR department is a people job and was best done with face to face interaction (Daft, 2013, p. 343). With Sam’s back against the wall he has to decide if the project is even worth fighting for or does his boss have a point, maybe HR should be handled with personal interaction rather than with a web-based system. Causes of the Problem Some might say that the cause of this problem is Sam’s boss and his narrow mindedness. Maybe he is just afraid of the new technology as many people can be when they don’t...
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...Wireless Technology in the Workplace Wireless Technology in the Workplace The first demonstration of a mobile phone was in 1973. Ten years later Motorola offered the first commercially available mobile phone. While it took ten years to bring the wireless phone to the marketplace, technology continues to advance with rapidity. With advancements in technology come “advancements in mobility, cloud and other areas” (Athow, 2014). With this evolution, employees are more mobile and constantly connected to their employer than ever before. Finding ways to convert the workplace into a wireless workplace offers benefits to both the employer and employee. Converting an office to a wireless office is a considerable investment, though there is a quick return on the investment. Employers have the option to allow more employees to work remotely, making the need for huge offices with an assigned workspace for each employee archaic. Depending on hours of operation and schedules, employees have the ability to share workspace for the times they are in the office, or have unassigned work areas. Companies can leverage this option and seek opportunities to reduce real estate cost through consolidation and reduction in office space. Employees have access to corporate software, data, and full functionality of a traditional office with the use of their tablets, laptops, and smartphones. Connected to a secure WiFi, employees now have the option to work remotely and create a more flexible schedule...
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...MGMT 308 CHAPTER 1 The Role of Human Resources What Is HRM? Human resource management is the process of employing people, training them, compensating them, developing policies relating to the workplace, and developing strategies to retain employees. The Role of HRM There are seven main responsibilities of HRM managers: staffing, setting policies, compensation and benefits, retention, training, employment laws, and worker protection. In addition to being concerned with the seven internal aspects, HRM managers must keep up to date with changes in the external environment that may impact their employees. The trends toward flexible schedules and telecommuting are examples of external aspects. To effectively understand how the external forces might affect human resources, it is important for the HR manager to read the HR literature, attend conferences, and utilize other ways to stay up to date with new laws, trends, and policies. SKILLS NEEDED FOR HRM Ethics is perhaps one of the most important aspects to being a great HR professional. There are a number of skills crucial to human resource management. First, being able to organize and multitask is necessary. In this job, files must be managed, and an HR manager is constantly working in different areas of the business. Communication skills are necessary in HRM as well. The ability to present good and bad news, work with a variety of personalities, and coach employees is important in HRM. Specific job skills, such as...
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...Information Workplace. Department for Education’s (DfE’s) the Chief Information Officer (CIO) Group has transformed service delivery for staff through the Information Workplace Platform (IWP) three years ago. IWP provides a range of secure collaboration services on SharePoint2007. IWP is example of UK government and been launched in April 2008. It been recognized with “e-Government Excellence” award for excellence in public sector. IWP enabled the DfE to improve and reducing costs and IT complexity. With Government’s Information Matters strategy, IT and business change programme to created transformation with benefits for service users. IWP gives staff access right information at right time and enabling them make better decisions for benefits of citizens. A key component of IWP has been the development of Workplaces. Workplaces is shared environment allowing staff to share documents, communicate and collaborate. By implementing Workplaces, DfE has improvements to efficiency of records management. It’s main due to simplification process and ongoing communications campaign. For background and issues, DfE is UK central Government for education and children services in England that formed in May 2010. In 2008, CIO Group will support Department. But have to achieving a whole sale reworking of the DfE’s information infrastructure and processes. So, existing systems relied heavily on manual and paper-based workflows that to be replaced with agile technology. In July 2009...
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...Summary of Article 1 Managing a virtual workplace The article is about Virtual workplaces, which is a kind of workplace that is not located at any one physical location and all the employees and clients are connected to each other through technology. This article establish the need to have a virtual workplaces, the pros and cons of having this form of workplace and provide some automations to managers to be more useful to the workplace. The benefits that businesses have acquired from virtual workplaces are the reduced real estate expenses, the increased productivity of teleworking employees, higher profits in sales, improved customer services as consultant spent more time face-to-face with customers, more access to global markets, and environmental benefits. The disadvantages of virtual workplaces are that the setup and maintenance costs for the required upgraded equipments for home offices are much more, there are more cultural clashes in a business team as every person hold a different set of values and thinking, there is an increase feeling of isolation between supervisors and coworkers, and last but not least there is a lack of trust when it comes to employees abilities to do the work. This Article also explains the kind of jobs virtual workplaces are appropriate for. Jobs where the employees work is performed over the phones, via computers, or where the individuals does not have to spend a lot of face to face time with business clients. The individuals who are internally...
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...The Impact of Technology in the Workplace The impact of computer technology in the workplace has been enormous within the past decade, both positive and negative. Distant communication through the use of computers and mobile devices have overhauled the office setting completely. Email, social networking sites and the world of the Internet have opened a whole new avenue of communication. Technology has changed the entire workplace environment, the relationships, and how things get done. Office workers and businesses are not limited to phone calls, meetings or mail to communicate with each other anymore. Electronic email can be used and not interrupt the recipient. The recipients can respond immediately or at a later time.Virtual calls and meetings allow for distant participation in meetings without everyone actually being physically present. Clients, business partners and employees can telecommunicate from their location of choice. The use of mobile of technology has eliminated the importance of an actual physical office space. Work can be done while traveling, across continents, or even from home. Even employees in the same office can chat, share projects, SKYPE to share screens and make group decisions without even being in the same room. Customer Service Departments use technology to serve customers in a timely manner as well. Automated phone systems and email expedite customer service questions and issues...
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...organizational success depends upon careful attention to human resources. Within today's business world the focus on human resources has increased tremendously in recent years. Companies have realized the importance of human resource to administer employers relations with employees. Such human resources services involve the recruitment for a company as well as over seeing benefit and compensation packages, temporary and permanent placement of qualified workers and ensuring training and future development are observed and meet the company's qualifications. Employment policies must take into account court decisions and legislations pertaining to a wide range of issues - age, race and disability discrimination; health and safety requirements, employment security, confidentiality; and sexual harassment, to name a few. Tyson suggests that the aim of the HR strategy process is concerned with devising ways of managing people, which will assist in the achievement of organizational objectives. Within these processes HR assists management in development and implementing policies, practices and philosophies to benefit the organization. Tyson recognizes that there is a lack of importance placed on the actual process that leads to the success of organizations and therefore could be seen as changes in the policies, practices and philosophies of organizations. Kane and Stanton realize that the planning process of the human resource function is key to the challenges of the future to...
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...These theories and approaches have changed rapidly from the classical era to the modern era. Furthermore, illustrating issues that have evolved through changes in the employment relations environments such as the nature of work, technology, managerial regimes, regulation, policy and globalisation. The purpose of this essay is to identify and explain the main changes that listed above. The second part of this essay identifies those changes or improvement of employment relations environment that can benefit both the employers and employees by creating a healthy and supportive working environment. Employees who have strong employment relationships, are more satisfied and keen on work, also, they tend to have helpful and friendly co-workers as well as high levels of employee trust and commitment with employer. The establishment of regulation and policies such as labour law, minimum wages, Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) enhance safety and security in workplace. Thus, strong employment relationships are beneficial to both employees and employer. In addition, a better quality of working environment could also increase the productivity of organisations. Since automation had been widespread in the manufacturing industry in 1950s and 60s, technologies become a major part of everyday operations in every organization, especially in shipping, mining and meatpacking (Schuster & Weidman,...
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...Article Review – Information Technology and The Changing Workplace in Canada The article, Information Technology and The Changing Workplace in Canada, was written by Saeed Moshiri. The author’s main position which is outlined by the article is “recent advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have had vivid effects on both individual and workplace performance” (Moshiri, 2009). Throughout the article the author thoroughly investigates ICT as well as the effects that is has on a firm’s productivity using data from a Canadian Workplace Survey from the period of 1999-2003. The author’s stance on the effects of ICT on the workplace is that it has a positive and significant effect on the productivity of firms. The author goes on to say that “Use of computer and the internet as general-purpose technologies has spread rapidly across all sectors of the economy, transforming business organization, increasing competition, and fostering innovation.” (Moshiri, 2009). He talks about the vast widespread of the creation of new technologies in the workplace as well as the use of them to create more productive work methods increasing the total workplace productivity and general employee technological sense. In the article, the author studies the data from various workplace surveys conducted during times of technological advancements and then displays the data to show whether or not the effects of ICT on the workplace have been positive or negative, which in this case it has...
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...comfortable and are able to achieve work life balance. References: 1. O’Leary, M. B. (Mar 15, 2013). Telecommuting Can Boost Productivity and Job Performance Retrieved from http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2013/03/15/telecommuting-can-boost-productivity-and-job-performance. A. Companies should not require all employees to work on site all the time. While telecommuting is popular, it is not something that's run amok and–when well managed–it boosts productivity, commitment, work-life balance and retention. Presented by Michael Boyer O'Leary is an assistant professor of management, Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. Relevance based on the authors review of the actualized benefits of some workers working from home B. This article is about the benefits of some employees working from home. The argument is that some not all teleworkers do see a boost in productivity, employee retention and work life balance. Mr. O’Leary an assistant processor at the prestigious Georgetown University, Directly sites Yahoo’s recall of employees back to the office as an example of a mistake. The author uses research from Stanford University, The US census and the Harvard school of business to further strengthened his position on the subject. 2. Tolentino, M. (Oct 14, 2013). Telecommuters Vs. Office Workers: Who’s More Productive? Retrieved from http://siliconangle.com/blog/2013/10/14/telecommuters-vs-office-workers-whos-more-productive/ a. Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard...
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...behavior in the workplace.” Student’s Name Institution Course Date Ethical Behaviors in the Workplace Technology Ethics is a philosophy that has a duty of keeping and also upholding various fundamental and important issues within an organization. A work place is that place that employees interact with other employees. As a workplace is a social site, there must be ethics governing people behavior is such a place. The rules of ethics are very important when it comes to career building. The ethics and code of conduct involve all the personal choices that people engage in that can either make or break their relationships. Maintaining good ethics will help maintain respect for the people around you and also your profession. There are the different policies that have been put in place to regulate the employees conduct in different organizations. As an expert and a professional it is important to know the things that one should do. The essay will discuss what ethical behavior is, how it is affecting the workplace, what controls can be put in place to reduce negative ethical behavior and the benefits that result from having an environment where the employees follow ethics in the work place (Bliss, 2004). The essay will narrow down to an ethical deviance in the work place and will base its arguments in the technology areas that involve the use of computers and the upcoming changes in technology. The workplace defiance originated...
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