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A 3 page paper that begins with comments about human life cycles. The one used for this paper is Erikson's stages of psycho-social development. Two transitions are discussed: from employee to manager, and the transition to graduate school. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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reach old age, when most people lose physical and different degrees of physical stamina, strength, and so on. Other perspectives are the cognitive and another is the psychological one. Second
to the physical life cycle, we most often discuss the psychological or more specifically, the psycho-social life cycle. The theorist whose work is especially valuable and useful to this
assignment is Eriksons Stages of Psych-Social Development. There are eight stages in Eriksons schema (Boeree, 2006). An individual might move from employee to manager any time after Stage 5, Adolescence
which covers ages 13-18. An individual might enter graduate school anytime after that same stage. Individuals are more likely to make the transition from employee to manager after age 30
and most probably enter graduate school under the age of 45, which is in Eriksons Stage 7, Middle Adulthood. Making the transition to management is a great deal more difficult
than most people think. Bobinski (2008) commented that "the skills that made one successful in the rank and file are not the skills one needs for success as a supervisor."
This transition is even more difficult when an individual becomes a manager in the same department where he or she was an employee. Suddenly, the friendships become strained because the
relationships must change. Bobinski (2008) reports the case of Burt who became a manager in the same department and instead of supervising, he did the work himself until his own
manager told him that he needed to supervise the people, not do the work himself. One of the factors that makes this kind of transition so difficult is that
companies do not provide an individual with training when they promote him to management (Bobinski, 2008). The individual must be able to think like a manager, not like an employee
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