Miami Dade College Psy CLP1006 Hialeah Campus Room 1217 M/W 4:00 - 5:30 PM Oct 1- Dec 19 (2007)

1. Psychology of Personal EffectivenessAll You Need To Know About How To Live Happily & EffectivelyTimothy W. Starkey, Ph.D., ABAP Chapter 11. Know The Workplace Miami Dade College Psy CLP1006 Hialeah Campus Room 1217 M/W 4:00 - 5:30 PM Oct 1- Dec 19 (2007) 305-279-0758 (Home) or 305-338-1615 (Cell) Hours 3:00 to 4:00 PM On M/W (Per Request)

2. Thoughts About Work • Some advisors will tell you that the adjustment to work (after college) is similar to the adjustment you made to college after high school. • What do you think? What are you expecting in terms of you first “after college degree” job? • How much do you expect to make on your first job? Or if you’re already working, how much (%) more do you expect getting your college degree will bring? If you’re already working, do you expect to change jobs or keep the same one, once you get that sheepskin? • Once you’ve begun your first post-college-degree job, how long do you expect to keep it? Do you expect to leave it for a better job or do you expect you job to be “outsourced” to New Dehli?

3. Gender Expectations

4. A Few Facts About Work • The average worker has typically worked eight hours a day, five days a week, 50 weeks a year. And this isn’t counting all the work your boss “asks” you to take home over a weekend for a “rush job”, or that you take home anyway without being asked because you feel “you have to” in order to get “what’s expected of you” done in time. • Do you plan on being a “loyal worker”? What do you mean by “loyal”? • Technology now allows you to be reached by your boss 24/7 whether you’re “officially” on duty or not. • People are now extending their retirement age from the traditional 65 to 70 and beyond. A large %age of “baby boomer” have said in a recent poll that they “never intend to retire”, mostly for financial reasons. • Do you expect to ever retire? At what age?

5. As we age, we lose more and more of our abilities…if we are “brain workers”, our losses are much less central to our sense of self.

6. Gold Collar Workers • Because of the widespread fear of a technological collapse in time of war or terrorist attack, computer scientists and computer experts of all types are now considered the new “Gold Collar Workers”. • One trend that has reached an extremely rapid pace is that the workplace is constantly evolving ~ yesterday’s “great job” is “today’s OK job” and tomorrow’s “dead end job”. Or worse. • Because technology is changing the world and the workplace so rapidly, nobody knows for sure what the best jobs are going to be in 10 years. Studies show that more than 50% of job categories ten years from now will not have even been invented yet. • It is estimated that well over 80% of the world’s technological advances have occurred in the last 100 years. Technology feeds upon itself ~ like a giant snowball rolling down the side of a huge snow-covered mountain faster and faster. Can you hear that giant sucking sound? There's no going back for society as a whole, and there’s no going back for the workplace. • Honestly, does this incredible onrush of technology scare you?

7. Image Isn’t Everything…

8. Although Sometimes the Image of Being Filthy Rich Helps

9. Diversity in the Workforce • In addition to racial and ethnic diverse groups, another very important source of diversity in the workplace is the growing age gap found among present day workers. Workers are living longer and working longer. Life expectancy for the U.S. population reached 76.9 in 2000. • Eighty percent of baby boomers say they plan to work at least part-time during their retirement. • DeCenzo (1997) breaks age into three separate eras: 1. Those born before 1946, 2. Those born between 1946 and 1964, and 3. Those born after 1964. • Why do you think that these three particular groupings are important?

10. DeCenzo’s Population Groupings By Birth Date

11. Advice To A Young Brain Worker

12. Differences Between the DeCenzo Groups • The mature workers lived during or close to the time of the Great Depression. In that era resources were scarce, unemployment abounded, and people learned to be exceedingly frugal to survive. This group valued job security very highly. They are very information-oriented, especially as it pertains to global economic conditions and the threat of war anywhere on the globe. • The “baby boomers” evolved in a great area of building. The Space Program, the rapid advancement of technological innovation, and communication networks, to name just a few, evolved as they grew up. And of course they grew up in the “atomic age”, when life on the planet depended on the “MAD” doctrines of the United States and the Soviet Union, and later that of China. They came to see their careers as central to their lives and valued advancement and the money it brings. Some have described them as “workaholics”.

13. Generation X or (“baby busters”) born after 1964 are seeking personal gratification and want work to allow them the freedom to pursue their own interests. They are often looked upon as selfish and intolerant by the other two age groups. • More recent studies have described a Generation Y born from about 1977 to 2000. There are about 70 million persons in this category, and they comprise 26% of the population of the U.S. They grew up in a period of rising prosperity, expanding technology, plentiful white collar jobs, and are more ethnically diverse than any of the preceding generations. Gen Y individuals tend to be less cynical, more optimistic, self-confident, and they expect to be better off than their parents were. • Unfortunately, a significant economic/stock market recession hit the U.S. in late 2000, and the average household after-tax income has continued to decline every year to the present.

14. For the first time in our history, a major economic study this year showed that today’s 35-year-old men are earning less per year after taxes than did their fathers, even though as a group they were somewhat better educated. Ultimately, these contradictions between the high education and aspiration levels of the Gen Ys, and the hard economic facts that real income has been declining for a generation and higher paying jobs are disappearing in one industry after another. Sooner or later, this will reach a boiling point, and the Gen Ys will become involved in the political process at all levels from the national to the local. America has constantly evolved and changed its definition of “capitalism” and “rights” since its earliest days, especially with respect to the questions regarding what constitutes fair recompense for labor and how cozy the financial arrangements between the various levels of government can be with international corporations. The Chinese have a curse that reads “may you live in interesting times”. The next twenty years are likely to be interesting times for the United States and we must be prepared for them with greater knowledge and wisdom.

15. End of Chapter 11