Essay - Introduction the Average American Today, Works More that an American...

Introduction

***** average American today, works more that an ***** worker of even a gener*****tion ago. A 1999 Government report stated that workers worked 8% more hours than the previous generation. This translates to an average workweek ***** 47 hours. Twenty percent of workers *****day work more ***** 49 *****. The ***** place has been constantly changing—the revolution from agronomies to industrialization having had its origins in the industrial revolution. Most of the industrialized regions of the world have attained better standards with significant improvements in quality ***** life as a result of the *****dustrial revolution. In turn, however, ***** workplace became more formal and restrictive. Any personal skills of an individual worker were generally ignored. These abilities were not essential a worker's role in the "new" work environment.

M*****s production was ***** next phase of change in the workplace. It made standardization the norm. Greater emphasis was placed on c*****form*****g to acceptable standards and rules than to the *****' actual skill and potential in the workplace. America has always been the land of dreams. It is a place where a common man can strike it rich if he ***** work hard enough, be smart enough, and work longer hours. This has *****ed in the ***** *****n ********** putt*****g in more hours than any off his counterparts ********** ***** the ***** for ***** same level of work. Competitiveness and profit seeking tend ***** create a society of insecure individuals. They are forever interested in climbing the next hill and crossing the next sea. While this has helped America stay at the top of most of the research and development now *****ing carried out in ***** world, it has also made the society more stress and less *****teractive.

Literature Review

In the pre-industrial era, workers lived and ***** in isolation (as dictated by the work environments of those days); they crafted goods required at their homes and farms. Artisans produced non-agricultural goods. These ***** brought ***** completed goods to the market or the *****wn-fairs. These ***** days were special: ***** exchanges of goods were sometimes monetary, but *****ly based on a system of barter. After the advent and establishment of the *****dustrial *****, ***** brought people closer toge*****r in central locations to *****. ***** areas were pre-determ*****ed by the locations of factories and industries. The new worker ***** often taught a single *****. This skill w*****s used repetitively in mass production—***** an assembly-line setup. ***** newly created commodities were sold by the factory in a l*****rger market—the size of the market determined ***** the worth of the product.

The workplace is ***** changing. Change is good. The environment in which an org*****ization operates and functions in today's dynamic market is also constantly changing. (Mukherjee and Mukherjee, 2001) Competition will ***** must exist at all levels for an organization or individual to be successful. Competition does exist even at the most basic level—***** family. And it is also necessary ***** keep an organization growing. A few ***** and must get rich over