scholarly journals The Influence of Generation X and Y Employees on Modern Cities

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-61
Author(s):  
Aygun Kam ◽  
Justyna Trippner‑Hrabi
Keyword(s):  
Generation X ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Business World ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Sales And Marketing ◽  
Opposite View ◽  
Employee Characteristics ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Interview Questionnaire

The employee profile in the business world is becoming increasingly diverse. This change shows that the working population structure of cities has also diversified. The entry of different generation members into business life may mean that they have different perspectives and expectations for the organisations they work for. The main aim of the paper is to investigate the importance of the influence of the characteristics of Generation X and Y employees on professional and urban life. From this perspective, a study was carried out on 235 white‑collar employees working in service, sales and marketing businesses in the private sector in Istanbul in order to investigate the effects of Generation X and Y employee characteristics on working and urban life. The data were obtained in the course of a quantitative study carried out by means of an interview questionnaire using the CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interview) technique. According to the literature, the entry of different generation members into business life means that they have different perspectives and expectations for the organisations and cities they work for. However, our research shows the completely opposite view that members of different generations do not have different characteristics and expectations.

scholarly journals HUBUNGAN JOB EMBEDDEDNESS DAN BUDAYA KOLEKTIVISME PADA KARYAWAN GENERASI X DAN Y DI PLTD SIANTAN, KALIMANTAN BARAT

Psibernetika ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anjini Sutampi ◽  
Aditya Nanda Priyatama ◽  
Selly Astriana
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Generation X ◽  
Generation Y ◽  
Job Embeddedness ◽  
Different Characteristics

<p align="center"> </p><p><strong><em>ABSTRACT: </em></strong><em>The company currently recognizes two types of workforce generations based on age, namely generation X and generation Y. Both generations have different characteristics, one of them is job embeddedness. Job embeddedness rate was found the highest in an organization with collectivism. An organizational culture that is developed in various companies in Indonesia is the collectivism culture, one of them is in PLTD Siantan, Kalimantan Barat.This study aims to (1) find out the differences in the tendency of job embeddedness on generation X and generation Y employees in terms of collectivism culture, (2) find out the differences of job embeddedness tendency in generation X and generation Y employees; (3) find out the differences of collectivism culture on generation X employees and generation Y in  PLTD Siantan, Kalimantan Barat.This study uses 69 samples of PLTD Siantan employees. The instruments used are job embeddedness scale and collectivism culture scale. The anava result shows that there is a difference in the tendency of job embeddedness in employees of generation X and generation Y in terms of collectivism culture of PLTD Siantan, Kalimantan Barat. The result shows that there is a difference of job embeddedness on generation X employees and generation Y employees. There are also cultural differences collectivism in generation X employees and generation Y employees. This means that hypothesis 1, hypothesis 2, and hypothesis 3 are accepted.</em><strong><em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Keywords:</em></strong><em>job embeddedness,</em><em> collectivism culture,generation X and generation</em></p><p align="center"> </p><p><strong>ABSTRAK: </strong>Perusahaan saat ini mengenal dua jenis generasi tenaga kerja berdasarkan rentang usia, yaitu generasi X dan generasi Y. Kedua generasi tersebut memiliki perbedaan karakteristik, salah satunya adalah job embeddedness. Tingkat job embeddedness ditemui paling tinggi pada organisasi dengan budaya kolektivisme. Budaya organisasi yang berkembang di berbagai perusahaan di Indonesia adalah budaya kolektivisme, salah satunya adalah PLTD Siantan, Kalimantan Barat. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk (1) mengetahui perbedaan kecenderungan job embeddedness pada karyawan generasi X dan Y ditinjau dari budaya kolektivisme, (2) Mengetahui perbedaan kecenderungan job embeddedness pada karyawan generasi X dan Y, (3) Mengetahui perbedaan budaya kolektivisme pada karyawan generasi X dan Y PLTD Siantan, Kalimantan Barat. Penelitian ini menggunakan seluruh anggota populasi sebanyak 69 karyawan PLT Siantan. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah skala job embeddedness, dan budaya kolektivisme. Berdasarkan hasil anava, menunjukkan perbedaan kecenderungan job embeddedness pada karyawan generasi X dan generasi Y ditinjau dari budaya kolektivisme PLTD Siantan, Kalimantan Barat. Berdasarkan hasil analisis perbedaan rerata menunjukkan perbedaan job embeddedness pada karyawan generasi X dan karyawan generasi Y. Selain itu, terdapat juga perbedaan budaya kolektivisme pada karyawan generasi X dan karyawan generasi Y. Hal ini menjelaskan bahwa hipotesis penelitian 1, 2, dan 3 diterima.<strong></strong></p><p>Kata kunci: job embeddedness, budaya kolektivisme, generasi X dan Y</p>

scholarly journals Graffiti as a sign: the semiotic approach to the study of the phenomenon

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
Maria Chikarkova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Street Art ◽  
The Media ◽  
Cultural Code ◽  
The One ◽  
Different Characteristics

Although graffiti is a well-known phenomenon of street art, there is still no single point of view on this phenomenon (even if it is considered art at all). Both the essence and the manifestations of graffiti remain a matter of debate - there are dozens of different classifications, that they are based on different characteristics. However, the phenomenon has rarely attracted attention from the point of view of semiotics, though it is the semiotic reading of graffiti that makes it possible to understand its nature more deeply. Due to semiotics we could create an integrative classification, which would combine stylistics and subject matter into one system. The article made exactly such an attempt –providing of the semiotic classification of graffiti, based on Ch. Peirce’s classification of semiotic signs. Graffiti is a sign, because it has a material shell of the latter, a marked object and rules of interpretation. It functions within the subculture and signifies the individual's desire to escape from the deterministic nature of urban life (J. Baudrillard). It is a culture of the semiosphere, which continuously gives rise to new connotations and, accordingly, generates new receptions. An important component of graffiti interpretation is the cultural code; it is not read outside the field of conventionality, cultural context. Decoding of graffiti can occur in three ways. From our point of view, it is appropriate to use S. Hall’sclassification. He suggested a scheme for "decrypting" messages in the media, however, in our opinion, his scheme works for any communicative act (including graffiti). He distinguished dominant ("dominant-hegemonic"), oppositional ("oppositional") and negotiated ("negotiated") decoding. In the graffiti situation, oppositional decoding prevails among ordinary recipients (passers-by). U. Eco called this type aberrant, because it provides "decryption" of text with a different code than the one it was created for. Authors of graffiti themselves are often not fully aware of what they createalso. Modern writers use techniques of op-art, Dadaism, surrealism, etc., without being very oriented in all these directions. When graffiti combines different types of art (for example, the combination of painting with literature), it takes into account the features of inter-semiotic translation, which makes the decoding situation even more complicated. We offercreating a semioticclassificationofgraffiti, that might be based on Ch. Peirce’s classification of semiotic signs, whichdistinguishthesigns-copies, signs-indexes, signs-symbols. It could help the essence of graffiti and decode them.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL POLARIZATION IN MODERN CITIES

2019 ◽  
pp. 92-97
Author(s):  
G. P. Podolian
Keyword(s):  
Social Situation ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Polarization ◽  
Communication Interaction ◽  
Big City ◽  
Characteristic Features

The article is devoted to the analysis of complex processes of social polarization as an integral feature of the modern life of big cities, which manifests itself in the confrontation of the elite and disadvantaged segments of the urban population. It is emphasized on the spectrum of the main causes, characteristic features that have determined the rise of these trends in modern cities around the world. Emphasis is placed on the devastating impact of social polarization on the social foundations of communication, interaction and integration of different segments of the population within one city. By comparing the practice of the existence of cities in classical cultures with the modern experience of func- tioning of large cities, the main causes of such a situation are analyzed. The universal include: globalization, NTP and urbanization. Other, not less significant, include economic ones: formation of world interdependence, first of all, in economic activity, becoming of post-industrial production with appropriate type, practices and values, increase of level and possibilities of technological transformations, existence of competitive ways of production, uneven development of production, increasing dependence of many economies from tourism development, poverty growth and the emergence of megabidonville, international labor migration rates; social: the emergence and subsequent dominance of a new type of intellectual elite focused on global communication space (cyberspace), the formation of "closed spaces" for different layers within the same city, breaking a complex network of relationships and interaction between different layers, leaving the solution of local problems to solve poor people, displacing the poorer from the best places of urban infrastructure, rigid polarization and segregation between different layers; cultural: the presence in the vast majority of large cities of ethnic groups, races and peoples; worldviews: fear, uncertainty in the future, vulnerability of the social situation in the conditions of "current modernity". An analysis of the dynamic nature of urban life has allowed to identify the main drivers of social polarization – myxophobia and myxophilia and to determine their negative influences and positive possibilities of maintaining social communication, interaction, agreements, exchanges in the context of the functioning of the big city of the modern global world.

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

2011 ◽  
pp. 35-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andi Baritchi
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Knowledge Discovery ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Knowledge Discovery In Databases ◽  
Business World ◽  
Useful Knowledge ◽  
Customer Support ◽  
Customer Base ◽  
Sales And Marketing ◽  
Customer Profiling

In today’s business world, the use of computers for everyday business processes and data recording has become virtually ubiquitous. With the advent of this electronic age comes one priceless by-product — data. As more and more executives are discovering each day, companies can harness data to gain valuable insights into their customer base. Data mining is the process used to take these immense streams of data and reduce them to useful knowledge. Data mining has limitless applications, including sales and marketing, customer support, knowledge-base development, not to mention fraud detection for virtually any field, etc. “Data mining,” a bit of a misnomer, refers to mining the data to find the gems hidden inside the data, and as such it is the most often-used reference to this process. It is important to note, however, that data mining is only one part of the Knowledge Discovery in Databases process, albeit it is the workhorse. In this chapter, we provide a concise description of the Knowledge Discovery process, from domain analysis and data selection, to data preprocessing and transformation, to the data mining itself, and finally the interpretation and evaluation of the results as applied to the domain. We describe the different flavors of data mining, including association rules, classification and prediction, clustering and outlier analysis, customer profiling, and how each of these can be used in practice to improve a business’ understanding of its customers. We introduce the reader to some of today’s hot data mining resources, and then for those that are interested, at the end of the chapter we provide a concise technical overview of how each data-mining technology works.

scholarly journals Post-flânerie: How do mobile devices shape the experience of the city?

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 01005
Author(s):  
Gorsev Argin ◽  
Burak Pak ◽  
Handan Turkoglu
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Mutual Relationship ◽  
Urban Experience ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

In the last decade, the advances in mobile technologies and location-based applications reshaped our mutual relationship with the urban environment. These technologies, as both a mean and barrier to the engagement between humans and their environment, have transformed the urban experience in profound ways. Urban experience is a relatively new concept introduced with the rise of modern cities in the nineteenth century. Its loss due to the rapid urbanization has been a subject of debate since then. Among the discussions that take place in this debate, the figure of ‘flâneur’ plays an extensive role. The flâneur is a figure who wanders through and appropriates the metropolitan city in pursuit of urban experience and reaps aesthetic meaning from the spectacle of the teeming crowds. Flânerie, or the act of wandering, and its implications for our understanding of urban life have been profound. Today, mobile technologies create a new kind of urban wanderer which is described as “post-flâneur”. In this paper, by examining the altering concept of flânerie, we discuss the effects of mobile technologies on urban experience. Based on an informed study of a wide range of theories, we make reflections on the impact of mobile devices on the mutual relationship between humans and their environment, introduce key concepts for understanding the emergent phenomenon of post-flânerie and elaborate on its interconnections with the phenomena of cyber and hybrid-flânerie.

Computer-Assisted Self-Interview Questionnaire

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea E. Waylen ◽  
Andrew Ness ◽  
Phil McGovern ◽  
Dieter Wolke ◽  
Nicola Low
Keyword(s):  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Interview Questionnaire

Industrial Zones in Modern Cities: a Source of Socio-Ecological Inequality or an Opportunity for Prosperity?

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 65-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
I.A. Vershinina ◽  
A.R. Kurbanov ◽  
A.V. Liadova
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Adaptive Reuse ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Modern City ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Industrial Zones

In this article examines the interrelation between the processes of industrialization and urbanization in terms of their impact on the quality of life in cities. The modern city is largely the result of the accelerated development of industry in the XIX - early XX centuries, however, the transition to the postindustrial phase of the development of society, which begins in the second half of the XX century, leads to deindustrialization of urban development. One of the trends of modern urban planning is the reconstruction of industrial zones which is carried out in the form of their adaptive reuse, which avoids many of the costs associated with their radical restructuring, although such a path is not always possible. According to opinions of the authors, the appeal to the idea of adaptive reuse becomes one of the means of revitalizing the urban landscape and, as a result, urban life.

The Topological City

2011 ◽  
Vol 374-377 ◽  
pp. 1985-2000
Author(s):  
Simon Kringas
Keyword(s):  
Urban Form ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
Dimensional Network ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Alternate Configuration

The Topological City is a design concept for a three-dimensional city in China. To accommodate future populations, cities need to be dense, diverse and ecological. Minimising the physical dimension reduces the consumption of material and energy and the destruction of ecological and agricultural landscapes. Mixed-use cities reduce the time, energy and congestion of travel. The integration of natural systems improves environmental quality and supports biodiversity. Ultimately however, the quality and functionality of contemporary urban life relies on dynamics of economic, social and intellectual interaction. The design form of a city must facilitate exchange between heterogeneous and changing programs while minimising energy and maximising habitat. High-rise construction is the dominant morphology of modern cities. Generated by an extrusion from the ground toward the sky, high-rise adds significant density but results in circulatory dead ends, structural inefficiency and habitat disconnectedness. High-rise is not interactive, energy efficient, or ecological. The Topological City proposes an alternate configuration of the urban environment. Drawing on the theory of place and connection known as ‘topology’, it constructs a three-dimensional network of vertical and horizontal towers, connected and activated by circulation. The Topological City is dense, diverse, ecological and interactive, suggesting a potential new direction for sustainable urban form.

scholarly journals Revisiting Coffee Shops as Public Space in Purwokerto

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Aidatul Chusna ◽  
Arizal Mutahir ◽  
Muhammad Taufiqurrohman
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
After School ◽  
Coffee Shop ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Cultural Functions ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Coffee Shops

The increasing number of coffee shops identifies the dynamics of urban life in Purwokerto. However, how does the existence of these coffee shops influence the socio-cultural life of the society?  The research aims to examine the socio-cultural functions of coffee shops in Purwokerto in accordance to the role of public sphere. The concept of public sphere by Jurgen Habermas is used the theoretical foundation of the analysis. Using descriptive qualitative method, the study analyses data taken from the observation and interview process. Due to the large number of coffee shops in Purwokerto, the researchers select six coffee shops with different characteristics. The research finds that coffee shops in Purwokerto tend to be a place to meet up after school or work and spend their leisure time, as the coffee shop offers a good atmosphere to be more focused and productive on their work. Thus, the function of public sphere is hardly found. Instead, coffee shop becomes a private place for individuals to engage with their own individuality and communities

scholarly journals The rise of corporate environmental responsibility in Serbian economy: The case of agri-food industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 945-959
Author(s):  
Tanja Milić
Keyword(s):  
Food Industry ◽  
Univariate Analysis ◽  
Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Corporate Environmental Responsibility ◽  
Business World ◽  
Supply And Distribution ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Processing Organizations ◽  
Post Hoc

The purpose of this paper is to investigate corporate environmental responsibility in the agri-food industry in the Republic of Serbia. Empirical research was conducted on a sample of 112 managers of agri-food organizations operating in the territory of the Republic of Serbia, randomly selected from publicly available databases, using Computer Assisted Web Interview - CAWI technique. Data analysis in this study consisted of descriptive statistics. Univariate analysis was used through individual ranking statistics. Nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis and post hoc Mann Whitney U test were used to test the significance of differences. Research results show above average level of corporate environmental responsibility in agri-food business world in the Republic of Serbia, yet, not sufficiently high comparing to Serbian consumers view, leaving room for improvement. Food processing organizations proved to be the most sensitive to corporate environmental responsibility issue followed by food manufacturing organizations, and agri-food supply and distribution chain organizations the least.

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