MPA 706 - Work, People, Productivity Progress Report No. 1 Dec. 7, 2015 - Return by Mid-Night Dec. 14, 2015 Instructions: This PR 1. Is sent to you by email. Answer the objective questions either by a check-of (x) or high lighting , and answer the text questions in the text box. This is an open book exercise related to the reading materials you have been given, and your class notes. 1. What are the three key factors that have been identified as having the most potential to affect worker and employers in the next 10-15 years? a. b. c. 1a. Explain how each of the above is, and/or will impact the work place. Unit 1. Con't. 2. T F Work place experts foresee a redefinition of employer-employee relationships and work assignments toward the diminishing in specialization, but with an increase in more worker-entrepreneures. 3. T F Today's work place organizations are re-shaping from a hierarchal autocratic form of management to a participatory, team focused, organizational style. 4. T F The US work force continues to expand rapidly, and competition for work continues to decline. There is plenty of work to go around. 4a. Explain your answer. 5. What is meant by diversity in today's work place, and give three examples typically found in most workplace organizations. 6. What workplace lessons/insight did you derive from your reading of the Irish/Italian immigration model, and your understanding of the experiences you and/or your family had when immigrating to the United States. 7. 7. T F Rapid technological change and increased international competition will require the need for an adaptable and a tech savvy work force. 8. T F Worker turnover in today's work force is minimal, assuring that organizations will have a steady and experienced work force. 9. T F In the coming years older employees will be urged to retire from the work force to make room for the younger workers. 9a, Explain your answer. 10. T F Over the past 50 years (1965-2015) the nature of work has transitioned from a predominately agricultural work force to an industrial based work force. 10a. Explain your answer 11.Identify five key demographic trends affecting today's work place. ` 12. Today's workforce is described as a multi-generational work force. What does this mean, and give specific examples. 13. Idicate the generation you are part of, and identify the following characteristic of your generation: 13a I belong to the: generation. Born between: & 13b A famous personality of my generation is: 13c. My work ethic is described as: 13d. A major core value of my generation is: 13e. My leadership style is: 13f. My view of authority is: 13g. Your favorite form(s) of inter-personal communications? 14. As a manager of an organization or a sub unit, why is it important for you to be aware of, and understand, the complexities of managing a diverse work force? 15. a. b. c. d. e. f. Which are the benefits of a multi-generational work team: The team is more flexible. The team is guaranteed to produce greater productivity gains. The team is more innovative and creative. Decisions are stronger because they come directly from the organizational hierarchy. a and c All of the above. 16. Which generation in today's work force represents the fastest growing work place demographic: a. The baby boomers. b. The flow if legal and illegal immigrants. c. The Millennials d. Women in the work force. e. Generation Xs f. d and e 17. When communicating with a member of the WWII generation be aware of: a. Your words and the tone of your voice should be respectful. b. Their lack of strong inter-personal skills. c. Their acute negative sensitivity to being supervised by younger workers. d. Your language should be professional. e. a & d f. b & d 18. a. b. c. d. e. The rich mix of generations in the work-force is attributed primarily to: Rising average age of retirements. Increasing labor shortage. Need for older workers to continue working longer. b&c All of the above 19. Which demographic revolution has had the greatest impact on the US work force for the past 50 years? a. The baby boom generation. b. The large scale influx of illegal immigrants. c. Impact of Globalization of the US work force. d. Entry of women into the work force. e. b & c 20. a. b. c. d. e. What huge historical event catapaulted women into the work force? The women's liberation movement of the 60s. Greater access to higher education opportunity and the breakdown of the \"Class ceiling. WWII The Civil Rights movement. a&e 21. T F Women in the work place now outnumber their male counterparts. 22. T F One of the social consequences of the rise of women in the work force is the creation of \"Super-Moms.\" 23. T F With the large influx of women into the US work force there has been friction and a push-back from the male work force. 24. T F The labor force participation for women for the past 50 years has been on the steady inline, however than trend is now in decline. 24a. Explain your answer. 25. To-date what have you learned from this class that has real meaning for you. 1- (a) Demographic shifts: the size and composition of the population, increase in the number of skilled labor will lead to an increase in the working hence leading to high productivity hence high employment. While population with young and old people will have low rate of employment. (b) Technological advancement: advancement in technology which results to production using machines and few employees will reduce employment and also will lead to encouragement of remote working pattern. (c) Global competition: global competition leads to the production of effective gadgets like computers or Smartphone which boost the rate of working and also has lead to creation of employment. It has also increased knowledge transfer hence increasing ability of workers. 2- Employer -employee relationship leads to diminishing of specialization and increasing entrepreneurship because more people are able to utilize technological advancement to work in flexible pattern hence they can work at their homes and able to do several jobs at the same time by involving in part time jobs 3- .re-shaping of leadership management to team focus and participatory is effective means of leadership since it allows the organization to formulate guidelines that will help to make good regulations that will fit all the parties, this will also enable management to gather more information on the arising matter. 4- There is high rate of expansion of US work force and reduced competition for work because they prefer to work at homes and hence leaving low wages jobs to the immigrants, 5- Diversity in work place is situation in which individuals with different characteristics and work experience are incorporated in the work and this allows more competition and innovation. There are many work diversity including: 1- Race and Ethnicity: 2- Gender 3- Age 6- Immigration to united state of America resulted to development of discrimination to the immigrants because many were given low wage level jobs and some were taken as servants, although the payment was good and there were available jobs in the market. For instance Irish immigrants were portrait as cartoons. 7- Change in technology affects greatly international competition hence making it necessary to have workforce which is creative and hence develop systems based on the changes in the situations hence need for adapting works and savvy force which properly understand the technological requirements. 8- Work turnover is reducing because of change in technology which creates room for working from any suitable location even at homes hence making it unnecessary to work from the offices. This can increase the productivity of the organization hence experienced work force since workers can be performing at any time of the day due to availability. 9- Older employees will be asked to retire because of the change in technology which demand working force with the ideas about the use of the technology to work since organization will not take resources to train old employees. 10- Shifting from agricultural work to industrial results from the education training which makes many to study on the industrial processing hence after school they seek employment in the industries. There is also hgh demand for work force in industry hence attracting many to join. 11- key demographic trends affecting working includes: 1- Age 2- Ethnicity 3- Gender 4- Education level 5- Marital status. 12- multi-generational work force is the generation which consist of work force capable of handling several types of work simultaneously: they include: 1- Baby boomers 2- Millennials. 3- Generation y's 13- Generation: 1- Generation y's. 1981-2000 2- More independent 3- Techno savvy 4- Entrepreneurship 5- Team work 6- Respectful 7- Email, texting and online conversation like whatsapp, facebook. 14- Working with diversity will require policies, practice and organization to enable various groups to work effectively by meeting their needs. This will create fair treatment based on the diversity available. 15- The best multi-generational work team include: 1- A- team is more flexible 2- B- team is guaranteed to produce greater productivity gains 16- Fast growing work force: 1- D- women in work force 2- Millennials 17- Communication with WWII generation 1- C- Their acute negative sensitivity to being supervised by younger workers 18- Cause of rich mix generation 1- A- Rising average age of retirements 19- Which demographic revolution has had the greatest impact on the US work force for the past 50 years 1- D-Entry of women into the work force 20- What huge historical event catapulted women into the work force 1- D - The Civil Rights movement 21- Numbers of women in work place outnumber the one for male because there is higher percentage of women working than men because of increased number of educated women than men. 22- Increase in the number of women employee will affect performance of organization to some limits due to the possibility of combining work giving birth to children hence many will be out of duty to deliver babies. 23- Influx of women in work place has caused men to push back because of family issues due to the fact that children will be left alone hence men will divide attentions to care for children more. Apart from that there are some jobs which men have left to be done by women hence prefer others. 24- The decline in women participation in work has reduced due to the need to take care of family and also there payment discrimination with that of men hence they leave works. 25- Have learned more about workforce which influence the ability of a country to develop effectively depending on the nature of demographic composition