...FOR FUTURE EMPLOYERS Sabri Hassan Assaari RETAINING THE GEN Y IN THE WORKFORCE: SOME SUGGESTION FOR FUTURE EMPLOYERS TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENT ABSTRACT PROBLEM STATEMENT WHO IS GEN Y RECRUITING GEN Y TACKLE THE FAMILY MENTORSHIP CHALLENGING WORK WORK LIFE BALANCE GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES BENEFITS AND COMPENSATIONS CONCLUSION RECOMMENDATIONS REFERENCES PAGE 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 2 RETAINING THE GEN Y IN THE WORKFORCE: SOME SUGGESTION FOR FUTURE EMPLOYERS Abstract Generation Y or the Millenials are set to take over and revolutionize the world. Born and raised in a significantly different period and global culture compared to their predecessors, they seem to demand more from their employer. This paper present a study on Generation Y characteristic and strategies future employers can adopt to successfully retain them in the organization. Who are the Millenials, what attract them and what it takes to retain them in organizations? And after understanding their traits, what can be done by companies to harness Generation Y special characteristics and abilities for their survivals in the challenging marketplace. In the end this paper try to justify an answer to the question whether is it really important for companies to give extra attention to this Generation Y, or it will be just another passing fad that will lose its importance and forgotten, when the next big thing hits the global Human Resource fraternities. 3 RETAINING THE GEN Y IN THE WORKFORCE: SOME SUGGESTION...
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...Generational Conflict in the Workplace Tara Scott University of North Alabama MG-340 July 20, 2015 I declare and affirm that the work submitted herein is my own work product from my own labor, efforts, and endeavors, and that I did not receive seek, receive, offer, or accept unauthorized aid or assistance or use of the work product of another, unless otherwise so stated fully and completely herein. The workplace can be filled with many conflicts and negotiation 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...
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...Isabel Finch September 3, 2015 McCabe, Sean. “What Do Millennials Want.” Accounting Today – An Investcorp and SourceMedia Publication. N.p., 16, Aug. 2011. Web. 2 Sept. 2015. <http://www.accountingtoday.com/news/firm-profession/what-do-millennials-want-75343-1.html> Issues Summary 1 In Sean McCabe’s article in Accounting Today, “What Do Millennials Want? – Listening is the first step to getting – and keeping young accountants,” McCabe discusses the fact that with the impending retirement of the Baby Boomer generation, the accounting industry needs more and more from its incoming young professionals. McCabe refers to the issue of employing and further retaining these young employees, and gives some insight into how companies can tackle this issue and ensure themselves a successful future. This article relates to accounting ethics because it discusses current developments and emerging issues in the accounting profession, specifically the handling of new hires who are the future of the industry. While discussing the large amount of opportunities open to accounting graduates today, McCabe informs the reader that the majority of these graduates are leaning toward the Big Four accounting firms. This is because, according to McCabe, these firms are scooping up these young professionals, not just for their reputable brand names, but because they have worked hard to find what appeals to this generation. These firms attract young students by demonstrating their interest...
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...something the wrong way. You must juggle work and moving responsibilities, though dedicated to-do lists can help manage the chaos. If you must move before you've found a new home, though, the biggest stress is where to put your stuff. You know there are storage sites, but what if you've never used one before? Let's jump in and shed some light on tracking down the right storage options for you. Storage Options Before you start scouring the internet or asking friends around about storage, it's important to know the options. Right at the top of most people's lists are self-storage sites. This is where you rent a unit at a facility and fill it yourself. As a general...
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...good job. And an employee goes to work because they have bills to pay. However, when your basic needs are being met, what motivates someone to, for example, cheat? Or for parents, how to make your child go to the bathroom on their own. A film based on the book, Freakonomics, economist, Steven D. Levitt, and, Stephen Dubner discuss how using an incentive to get what you want from someone can work in some situations and may not in another. They use examples from Sumo wrestlers and their own children. In addition, they conducted an experiment at a high school in Chicago Heights, Illinois to see if by giving students money in exchange for bringing their grades up. Because incentives is something that motivates one to do something; it sometimes could be used to illicit positive results. Daniel Pink wrote a book called, Drive, a title he used to as a synonym for motivation. Pink use to write speeches for vice president, Al Gore, while he was in office. Pink has done extensive research on motivation. He explains how there are two types of motivation, 1.0 and 2.0. Pink explains that motivation 1.0 was the primitive motivation that we had, when people were nomads and hunted and foraged for food, searched for security and finding mates. This was to simply take care of their most basic human necessities. As we evolved, we became motivated my rewards and punishment, what he called, carrots and sticks. The idea behind it is, ‘if/then’ rewards – if you do this, then you get that. However...
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...writing, freedom and confinement, isolation, drug and alcohol, identity, spirituality, society and class, and finally the dissatisfaction that comes with our different passions and live. Based on research, (Huxley, 2006), Aldous Huxley wrote the novel “brave new world”, to portray science and how it affects people. He intend to portray a high technological and futuristic society and how horrifying and at the same time fascinating it might end up to be. A world in which the society is controlled by their very own impulses, thoughts and emotions and how science may at times tend to imprison humanity rather than liberating it. This same science is hence bastardized by the same people who seek to control, they put into practice what they dim useful and limit what is dangerous. Aldous Huxley bases the novel “brave new world”, basically on two concepts, whether or not consumption and utopia are really compatible. According to research, utopias, (Belk, 1998), can be describe as the collective...
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...highly competitive market. Their size made them a convenient target, and more than a decade of negative press including the 2001 book “Fast Food Nation,” the 2004 documentary “Supersize Me,” and Jamie Kennedy’s 2012 “pink slime” exposé had taken its toll. In July 2014, the Big Mac earned the dubious distinction of being America’s worst hamburger, placing last out of 21 in a study by Consumer Reports. McDonald’s also ranked lowest among peers in the 2015 American Customer Satisfaction Index. Fast food restaurants overall dropped 3.8 percent, but McDonald’s fell by 6 percent from 2014, holding firm in the last spot. As the baby boomers get older, the millennials are becoming a larger part of the population. The generation is more aware of what they are eating and with all the media claiming “McDonalds” as unhealthy; they have chosen to eat restaurants that are “fresh and healthy”. With all the propaganda against McDonalds it is hard for people to see them as a good,...
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...of the gender wage gap and how to combat them using compensation strategies. Currently women make less than men for doing equally comparable work in many industries. In order to design a fair and transparent structure we can follow a pay for performance pay structure. This incorporates values that are important to a companies HR strategy and business strategy that untimely reflect the business to the public and possible talent. In today’s market, organizations are facing a gender pay gap issue. Currently women in the labor market can make less than a man for a number of different reasons. Through research and investigation we determine how we got into the situation we are in today, concerning demographics and historical changes; and what actions we take from here to ensure equality within the workforce across each gender concerning pay structure. The demographics of today’s workforce are significantly different than those of the early 1920’s. Our massive industrial boom caused the need for employees to skyrocket. The products that came into the market made everyday life easier such as radios and the finely tuned automobile. However, at this time, women were often contributors to other industries where they could use their knowledge of household items and techniques. The United States Department Of Labor states, “Prior to World War I, of all women employed in the manufacturing industries, three-fourths were making wearing apparel or its materials, food, or tobacco products”...
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...Effective Managers The skills required to become an Effective Manager Wayne A. Gould Saint Leo University MBA-525-MBOL2 Professional Development Dr. Bruce Hammond June 17, 2012 Abstract The managerial smorgasbord is riddled with a number of skill sets that could be deemed essential to effective management. The research suggests that the modern manger must be an effective communicator capable of delivering a clear and concise message to its intended recipient free of distortion. In addition, to effective communication, a good manager must be a strong motivator. Motivation demands that an effective manager has the skill to move an employee from point A to point B free of coercion or fear. These skill sets must be aligned within a framework of flexibility which is necessary to address a changing workforce demographics and and an adaptive workforce paradigm which is always shifting. Paper The general consensus is that effective managers must possess a series of skills that are fundamental to managerial successes and depending on applications; these skills will also determine a good manager from a not so successful candidate. The smorgasbord of skills set necessary for a successful manager is not universally agreed upon. For example, many observers of management practices gives heavy weight to technical expertise while detractors of this belief...
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...A business, also known as an enterprise or a firm, is an organization involved in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers.[1] Businesses are prevalent in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and provide goods and services to customers in exchange for other goods, services, or money. Businesses may also be not-for-profit or state-owned. A business owned by multiple individuals may be referred to as a company. The etymology of "business" stems from the idea of being busy, and implies socially valuable and rewarding work. Business can refer to a particular organization or, more generally, to an entire market sector, e.g. "the music business". Compound forms such as agribusiness represent subsets of the word's broader meaning, which encompasses all activity by suppliers of goods and services. cognition and Motivation Important for High Performing Employees TooEmployee engagement isn’t just about the low performers. In the TLNT article, “3 Tips on How to Best Engage a High Performer” we re given some insights into the need to keep high performers involved and motivated. High performers also need a connection to the purpose of the work they perform for their organization. As the article shares: In fact, a 2013 Leadership IQ study found that in almost half of organizations middle and low performers are actually more engaged than high performers. This was based on key findings that showed high performers’ efforts largely going unrecognized while...
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...------------------------------------------------- Task 1: Organization and Leadership Analysis Table of Contents Organization Overview 4 Organization Description 4 The Company Mission 4 The Organization – SEAD 4 The CEO – Jon Shreve 5 Leadership Practices 6 Relationship Between Leadership and Organizational Culture 7 SWOT Analysis 9 Organizational Strengths 9 Technical Skills 9 Strategic Thinking 10 Organizational Weaknesses 11 Under-developed Leadership 11 Failing to deliver quality results 11 Organizational Opportunities 12 Political Forces - Obamacare 12 Economic Forces - Cloud Computing 13 Organizational Threats 14 Leadership Evaluation 16 Leadership Strengths 17 Innovative Thinking 17 Future-Facing 17 Managing Relationships 18 Leadership Weaknesses 19 Lack of formal higher education in executive staff 19 Weakness of Human Skills 19 Lack of Systems Thinking 20 Recommendations for Leadership Development 21 Lead with Humility (Level 5 Leadership) 21 Engage in Interactive Leadership 22 Practice Authentic Leadership 22 References 23 Organization Overview The focus of this section is to provide a description of the Software Engineering and Development (SEAD) organization at MCG, the leadership practices of the company’s CEO, and the link between the CEO’s leadership practices and the SEAD organizational culture. This department and leader were chosen for two reasons. First, the SEAD organization underwent many...
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...British Journal of Educational Technology doi:10.1111/j.1467-8535.2007.00793.x Vol 39 No 5 2008 775–786 The ‘digital natives’ debate: A critical review of the evidence Sue Bennett, Karl Maton and Lisa Kervin Sue Bennett is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong. Karl Maton is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. Lisa Kervin is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong. Address for correspondence: Sue Bennett, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, Australia. Email: sue_bennett@uow.edu.au Abstract The idea that a new generation of students is entering the education system has excited recent attention among educators and education commentators. Termed ‘digital natives’ or the ‘Net generation’, these young people are said to have been immersed in technology all their lives, imbuing them with sophisticated technical skills and learning preferences for which traditional education is unprepared. Grand claims are being made about the nature of this generational change and about the urgent necessity for educational reform in response. A sense of impending crisis pervades this debate. However, the actual situation is far from clear. In this paper, the authors draw on the fields of education and sociology to analyse the digital natives debate. The paper presents and questions the main claims made about digital natives and analyses the nature of the debate itself...
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...Chapter 1 Management and Organizations 1) A great manager makes a job more enjoyable and productive. 2) Managers play an important role in dealing with various challenges being faced by organizations today. 3) Today's managers are just as likely to be women as they are men. 4) A manager must coordinate and oversee the work of other people so that organizational goals can be accomplished. 5) A manager's job is all about personal achievement. 6) In traditionally structured organizations managers can be classified as first-line managers, middle managers, or top managers. 7) Middle managers are responsible for making organization-wide decisions and establishing the plans and goals that affect the entire organization. 8) Effectiveness refers to getting the most output from the least amount of input. 9) Efficiency is described as "doing things right." 10) The four contemporary functions of management are planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. 11) Determining who reports to whom is part of the controlling function of management. 12) Directing and motivating are part of the controlling function of management. 13) When a manager performs the controlling function of management, he must monitor and evaluate performance. 14) Figurehead, leader, and liaison are all interpersonal managerial roles according to Mintzberg. 15) Disturbance handler is one of Mintzberg's interpersonal roles. 16) According to Robert L. Katz, managers...
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...Address: Dasmariñas City, Cavite Title: Study Habits of Millennial Learners in Selected Health Allied Courses at De La Salle Health Sciences Institute Authors: Abulad, Aldred Jillian L. Cabalquinto, Janine B. Desiderio, Andrea Domini I. Guilleno, Danielle May B. Hombrebueno, Mabelle A. Degree: Bachelor of Science in Nursing Cost: P 20,000.00 Date Started: November 2009 Date Completed: October 2010 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The study aimed to determine the study habits of millennial learners and if these study habits differ as regards to age, course, gender, monthly family income and residency. Specifically, the following questions were answered in this study: 1. What is the profile of the millennial learners as regards to age, course, gender, monthly family income, and residency? 2. What are the study habits of millennial learners? 3. Are there significant differences in the study habit of millennial learners when they are grouped according to age, course, gender, monthly family income and residency? SCOPE AND COVERAGE This study was conducted in De La Salle Health Sciences Institute Dasmariñas City, Cavite. The respondents of the study were 120 students from the selected health allied courses. The variables that were considered in this study were the demographic profile...
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...MASTER’S CAPSTONE RESEARCH PAPER Presented to Professor Robert B. Donaldson Division of Public Administration Problems in Applied Public Management In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Public Administration College of Business and Public Administration Governors State University By Shari Denise Holloway Winter 2007 Approved: ____________________________________________ Dr. Robert B. Donaldson Date: TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ABSTRACT………………………………………………………………………….....4 INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………...….5 WHAT IS DIVERSITY ……………………………………..........................................6 WHAT IS WORKPLACE DIVERSITY ………………….………………….….…….7 Corporate Culture and Diversity ………………………………….……………9 DIVERSITY POLICIES AND PRACTICES IN THE WORKPLACE………………14 Workplace Discrimination ……………………………………………………14 Glass Ceiling ………………………………………………………………….15 Affirmative Action…………………………………………………………….16 Equal Employment ……………………………………………………………17 FROM VALUING DIVERSITY TO MANAGING DIVERSITY …………………...18 MANGING A DIVERSE WORKFORCE: A Multicultural Approach ………………18 DIVERSITY FACTOR (THE ISSUES)………………………………………………21 Cultural Collision ……………………………………………………………..22 Benefits ……………………………………………………………………….22 Challenges……………………………………………………………...……..24 IMPLEMENTATION OF A MORE DIVERSE...
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