Week 1 Readings

Question 1

What are the 3 social forces that shape opportunity (Chapter 1)?

Answer 1

Culture
Structure
Agency

Question 2

What influence does culture have on work?

Answer 2

create a sense of meaning to work varies from how the culture values work

Question 3

What are 3 job management practices?

Answer 3

separating thought from execution
efficiency valued over work/life balance
science-based managerial practices

Question 4

What is the status game?

Answer 4

constantly playing to get ahead while paying debts that are getting you there

Question 5

How are job markets and job demands changing?

Answer 5

creative destruction - replace old with new
displacing work - global economy
new skills/job demands/rewards/burdens
telecommunication means work 24/7

Question 6

What is the life course perspective?

Answer 6

Looking at work as the entry, exit and movement between jobs

Question 7

What are mega-sectors concerned with?

Answer 7

extracting resources, processing resources, delivering goods, providing services

Question 8

What type of skills does the new economy concern itself with?

Answer 8

Soft skills/knowledge economy/interpersonal skills

Question 9

3 types of job flexibility

Answer 9

move-work arrangements - hybrid/variability
reduce work arrangements - job sharing, scaling back hours (usually during transitionary period aka retirement)
pause work arrangement - career breaks

Question 10

What are the components of the new global economy?

Answer 10

Large volume of trade/consumption between societies
Constant and rapid information exchanges between communities
Powerful/transportable tech
Dis-integrated production
□ No more central HQ, your business can be multi-national
Flexibility to move production/consumption from on society to another