The Changing Composition of the Workforce: Implications for by Albert S. Glickman (auth.), Albert S. Glickman (eds.)

By Albert S. Glickman (auth.), Albert S. Glickman (eds.)

The Annual Scientist-Practitioner meetings in business­ Organizational Psychology have been conceived via the dep. of Psychology at outdated Dominion college as a way to foster alternate of knowledge, issues of view, and insights between those who find themselves engaged in examine within the behavioral and social sciences, and people who, in a number of company, business, managerial, organizational, and academic roles, are actively engaged in paintings affording opportun­ ities to use the findings and ideas generated by way of clinical examine (many humans do both). Our vested curiosity and our wish is that the stimulus supplied through those exchanges may also help us and our specialist cohorts in psychology and different disciplines to enhance the innovative of conception and alertness in areas of difficulty of current and potential significance. the 1st of those meetings came about in 1980, and had as its subject matter, "Performance Appraisal. " The papers right here represent the sizeable contributions to the second one convention which addressed concerns pertinent to "The altering Composition of the staff. " it's going to be famous that even though industrial-organizational psychologists proceed to assert parentage, this assembly can lay declare to an interdisciplinary lineage, demonstrated through the presence on its panels and one of the different invited members of economists, hard work officers, educators, group of workers directors, gerontolo­ gists, sociologists, company managers, and army officials, in addition to others of unknown origins.

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8) As they mature, the members of the baby boom cohort may face reduced opportunities for advancement up organizational hierarchies relative to smaller birth cohorts. This may be especially true for those born in the latter half of the baby boom cohort, who will almost always find a very high concentration of only slightly older workers ahead of them in the promotion queue. (9) The large influx of dual career oriented women in the years ahead poses numerous research and policy challenges. Specifically, the strains of managing dual careers may have lasting consequences for families and society as well, yet so little is known to date about the dynamic forces which produce these strains and their aftermath.

For example, their annual earnings advancement over the next three years exceeded that of those less confident by $825 to $1150, depending upon race, and the more confident youths experienced three to four fewer weeks of unemployment as well. Among white young men, the more confident also had considerably greater advancement in hourly rates of pay, fewer weeks out of the labor force, and were more prone to be geographically mobile. Among women, those whose husbands were opposed to their working were less likely in subsequent years to advance occupationally or in earnings.

Additional questions must also be addressed if we hope to adequately explain previous trends in youth unemployment rates. forecast the future, and comprehend the meaning of youth unemployment rates. For example, is there a large reserve army of youth so discouraged by the lack of job opportunities that they have dropped out of the labor force altogether and thus are not counted as unemployed? An affirmative answer would imply that traditional unemployment rates understate the magnitude of youth unemployment problems both in terms of a disjuncture between supply and demand and possibly in terms of economic hardship for individuals and families as well.

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