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Impact Of The New Economy On Career Management Training

Posted on February 10, 2011

The tenets of career management training have been greatly impacted and may have to be substantially revised in response to the emergence of the "New Economy" in the United States. This "New Economy", of course, has been somewhat violently forced upon Americans by way of the United States being part of the "New World Economy".

It seems amazing that although the signals and signs of this approaching "sea change" in the world economic order of nations have been visible to Americans for at least a decade or more, we, as a nation, appear to be quite surprised and shocked at this turn of events. One possible explanation for the surprising nature of this reality shock is the added negative impact of the world economic upheaval of 2008-2009 and the trailing recession. Together, these two events greatly enhanced the negative effect of the New Economy on working class Americans, particularly those belonging to the Great American Middle Class.

How The New Economy Impacts Career Management Training

Three primary characteristics of the new economy combine to make planning and managing an occupational career a more challenging task.

1. Uncertainty

This is arguably the most pervasive effect of this new economic age. It is now clearly apparent that entire industries that employ thousands of workers at all occupational and career levels which we thought were permanent entities, can simply vanish. What can you do if your life plan hinged on pursuing a career in an industry that simply ceases to exist? Traditional career management training does not address this phenomena. Read more...

Effective Change – Crisis Management

Posted on January 12, 2011

Introduction - Change Vs Crisis

Man is naturally endowed with some positive but opposite life tendencies. We, the human beings, like serenity as well as adventure, enjoy isolation as well as association, adopt originality with novelty, chase imitation along with innovation, pursue stability along with mobility, assimilate classical stuff and modern items, and so on & so forth. The presence of opposite tendencies may create conflicts at some occasions. A persistent conflict creates confusion mentally and divergence behaviorally. The situation may rob the stability or satisfaction level of a person, while the human beings want to live a stable-satisfactory life. In addition, human nature is dualistic, i.e., static as well as dynamic.

The innate conflict creates crisis or/and impels change. Generally, the static aspect of human nature impels towards durability of accrued successes of life while the dynamic facet of human nature impels towards better options of life, consequently, the composed life is disturbed, from time to time, due to inner dilemma. Lastly, human life is interactive phenomenon, the interactive situations compel towards change in life-pattern, now and then. Whenever a situation impels or compels for amendments, a person faces multiple options of adjustments. The situation demand adaptability towards conflicting pressures. A wrong or volatile adaptation may lead towards crisis, while a right or stable adaptation actualizes change.

Change means to become different, in reality or in appearance or in both. Generally, everything, either material or immaterial, is elemental as well as structural. The elemental aspect forms reality while the structural aspect shapes appearance. In other words, the very structure of things/persons/institutions depends on some basic elements. For example, human personality is dynamic combination of mindset and behavior, things are outcome of idea and matter, and institution is systematic arrangement of human and non-human capital. A logical organization of basic elements shapes worthwhile things/individuals/institutions, for example, an essay explains an idea, it is composition of sentences, and sentences are shaped by words. A change of words/sentences/ideas will shape a different essay. A change is thus shifting/alteration of content or matter. A continuous change is essential aspect of universe, both animate as well as inanimate. At cosmic level, an effective change is an act of creation of natural phenomenon to realize Divine Ideals. At human level, an effective change is an intentional effort of a person towards something anew. It is noteworthy that Change Desire is inherent urge of human nature, persons chase relentlessly new options. Read more...

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