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...there a new generation gap? A disconnect between managers and their younger charges? Consider this real-life exchange, noted in a new book by consultants Lynne C. Lancaster and David Stillman. A middle-aged manager had come to the aid of a younger employee on a project. The cadet took the time to send a thank-you note, but it was an electronic version, which failed to impress his mentor. "I get a card that basically costs nothing and required no effort to send, after I gave so much," she groused. "Am I supposed to be flattered by that...
Associate Professor of Education and Psychology Gil G. Noam warned of the potential for disconnect between the ivory tower of academia and the realities facing service projects on the ground...
...cultural and historical differences. What united the delegates in the inevitable late winter rain of Brussels is less clear. There is a general dissatisfaction with the current workings of the E.U., a feeling that the club is unable to punch its weight on the world stage, an uneasy disconnect between the E.U.'s citizens and the bloodless and byzantine machinations of its institutions. Euroskeptics - considerably underrepresented among the delegates - contend that more Europe means just more bureaucracy and less democracy. With all that on the table, the overwhelming sense that something is missing might not suffice to forge agreement...
...political rights. In this case, the protesters used a coercive method to get wage negotiators to make concessions during a collective bargaining process. As with the sit-in last spring—although this event was not on nearly the same scale—there continues to be a disconnect between the magnitude of the issues at hand and the tactics that PSLM and the union employ...
This protest is both right and good. We cannot accept the moral separation of labor obligations that has accompanied the contractual separation of outsourcing. Corporations who seek to cut costs by outsourcing do not, in installing middle-men, disconnect themselves from the workers they continue to employ...