The Working Poor: Invisible in America
QA2. Small companies are usually privately owned business ventures which have limited operations, a few employees, a limited market scope and a low volume of sales. Small businesses mainly fall under private ownership and they may constitute of sole proprietorships, partnerships and corporations. The definition of a small company may vary under different jurisdictions, but the main considerations include the number of employees, relative volume of sales and scope of operations. For example in the U.S the number of employees should be below 500, whereas in the E.U the number is 50 employees (Lawler & O’Toole, 2007). Other factors that may also be considered include profits or assets ownership. On the other hand, big companies are characterized by a large number of employees, relatively large volumes of sales and production, wider coverage in terms of geographical coverage and possibly multiple branches. These forms of businesses also make huge profits and have many assets compared to small companies (Lawler & O’Toole, 2007).
Job satisfaction is the definition of content individuals may be with their jobs. Satisfaction is characterized by happiness and less stress at the workplace. Satisfaction in the workplace is usually enhanced through job enrichment, enlargement, rotations and re-engineering processes. Other influences in clued the culture and style of management, empowerment and autonomy enhancement and employee involvement. Job satisfaction is many at times higher in small companies than in large companies. This may be attributed to the close personal relationship that employees have with the management. Apparently, employees in small businesses are able to interact with the management and even at times offer advice and get involved in decision-making. This close involvement and interaction enhances their satisfaction (Lawler & O’Toole, 2007).
Employees in small businesses are often granted autonomy in their duties, and are able to follow orders and instructions because they can trace them to the source in management. But in large companies, employees work blindly on orders and instructions that they can barely envisage or understand their source. This is because such organizations rely on cold rules which have to be applied because of the enormous nature of the workforce involved. Autonomy is lost and employees are lost among a big pool of employees where they are insignificant and detached from the organization, therefore; developing no sense of recognition and dissatisfaction (Lawler & O’Toole, 2007).
QB1. Globalization has tremendously developed and many things that seemed remote are now in everyone’s backyard. The World Wide Web or Internet is one among many tools that have made globalization possible. Today there are millions of people online from all over the globe seeking information and help to further development. In order to reach these millions of people it is good to reach them in a media and form that is relevant to their context, in terms of language and content. There are various international organizations that are doing this, and in order to succeed they have to take into account the global diversity that exists. Under the “Best Global Website Award” Amnesty international may have been the best site in terms of taking care of diversity and enhancing the ability to people on a global scale through enhancing localization of its reach and content in to capture diversity (Bucher & Bucher, 2009).
Firstly, the site captures the aspect of diversity, by enhancing distinct possible site views in different languages. Offering its content in different languages spoken in various localities is one way of enhancing globalization through localization that makes context global and relevant to all localities. Other sites may be unreachable because of the language barrier. Another aspect is the site provides contacts and links to its local offices of operation in all countries on the site thus making the search of information locally to be simple. Through this exercise, I have just learned that making content locally relevant in context and content is important in reaching out to a diverse population on the globe, thus customization for local contexts should be enhanced for global communication and sufficient outreach (Bucher & Bucher, 2009).
QC2.The definition of the working poor is indeed an oxymoron, as stated by Shipler in his work titled: “The Working Poor: Invisible in America.” In his work Shipler shows how society seemingly seems to conspire to keep the working poor from ever rising out of their poverty. The first and perhaps most glaring technique devised to separate the working poor from their earnings, is the provision of cheap labor in return for payments that are not commensurate to the labor or work that is offered by the working poor (Shipler, 2004). Therefore, not matter how hard they work, getting out of poverty becomes a great challenge. Discrimination that hinders some Americans from getting to better positions of work also separates them from what they would be earning in life and thus ends up being poor. The tax regimes and unequal opportunities may also be blamed for the woes that the working poor face (Shipler, 2004). The nation’s leadership and policymakers have turned a blind eye to the revision of tax regimes in favor of the working poor, thus burdening them inequitably.
References
Bucher, D. R. and Bucher, L. P. (2009),. Diversity Consciousness: Opening Our Minds to People, Cultures, and Opportunities, 3rd edition. Prentice Hall-Gale
Lawler, E. E. and O’Toole, J. (2007),. The New American Workplace, Palgrave Macmillan Publishers
Shipler, K. D. (2004),. The Working Poor: Invisible in America. Vintage Books
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