Japan Millennials Turn Down Promotions

1. What are your thoughts on and the reasons millennials turning down big job promotions?
In my opinion, I consider that it is good to reject a career advancement if it is supposed other negative consequences for the person in particular. For example, according to the article, if accepting a big job promotion involves more responsibilities and generally not a notable raise in Japan, I see it as a logical situation to turn down the promotion. All this added to a reduction of the time to stay with the family or, in general, to enjoy free time.
2. Discuss how your organization values the division of labor and employee ranking.
In my organization, the roles are perfectly defined according to the role of each employee. In this context, in my department there are two sides (more analytical and other more technical) so there are two managers. They have subordinate employees such as junior and consultant people, so both of them distributed tasks to the staff of the department in conformity with the experience and previous academic training.
For all of these, managers are highest-paid people in my department due to their duties.
3. Share your sentiments on this, “In Japan, more responsibility doesn’t mean more money.“
Despite being that many people are very satisfied with their jobs and they like spending time to develop different tasks, everyone works with a main purpose: to earn money. In Spain, for instance, if an employee has more responsibilities and drawbacks to resolve, they get paid much more than other employees (in a normal situation). Obviously, they have to face meetings and trickier tasks than a person with less experience or other lower role. For these reasons, I totally disagree with the measure imposed in Japan.
4. Share your opinion on this, “Managers are held accountable for their subordinates’ every mistake, and are expected to display selfless leadership, often to the detriment of their personal lives.“
It’s clear that managers should be accountable and review the different tasks of their subordinates, however, in my opinion, it’s important to separate the professional and personal life. It’s unhealthy to leave their life selflessly at work to obtain the best outcomes. Otherwise, the person would be overwhelmed and have negative consequences for mental health.
All of the above doesn’t mean they don’t have to work the corresponding hours and perform as optimally as possible.
5. How important is company loyalty in your country? Elaborate.
In Spain, company loyalty could be influenced by several aspects such as employee comfort, economic aspects or workplace culture, for instance. I will extend my answer for each point:
• Employee comfort. Sometimes, workers decide not to make the switch to another company due to the comfort and the lack of time to search a new offer. They became a lazy people who don’t want to aspire to new challenges and prefer not to fizzle out to their current company.
• Economic aspects. As a result of the fact that many people have drawbacks to find out a job, they sometimes prioritize job security rather than earning much money in another new company.
• Workplace culture. When the workplace culture is pleasant, some employees don’t value the switch to another new job because for them it’s more important the atmosphere than other kind of conditions.
6. What are your aspirations career-wise?
My professional aspirations is acquired more experience in the company I stay now and to highlight in this area in the future, as well as to leave behind the junior position and take up a more senior position. In the cybersecurity field, training is very remarkable, so I will enroll in different courses to obtain new certifications that I can use to improve my knowledge and efficiency at work.

Furthermore, I wouldn’t like advancing for a manager position because from my point of view, it requires many responsibilities and I know that it would cause on me very stress.

Vocabulary:

1. Parity, at the same level. with the new law, there is parity between men and women in paternity leave in spain.
2. Multifaceted, that not only has one option. he is very multifaceted, he can play footbal and at the same time he is a virtuoso piano player.
3. To the detriment of, that is priorizite over other. she prefers this group to the detriment of her school friends.

Discussion:

1. It is normal, some companies offer these promotions just to have workers with more responsibility and more work, but they do not compensate at the same level as the new responsibility.
2. In my case it’s really easy, there are technical profiles and management profiles, and promotions are fair in the profile I’m in.
3. It’s not fair, you work for money, because you need it to live, so the company should pay you more if you have more responsibilities.
4. For me it is true that managers are directly responsible for the work of their subordinates, but their remuneration must be commensurate with this responsibility.
5. It was very important, but now, with many remote jobs, and with a job market with many options, it is not the most important thing.
6. Grow at the same time as my company, having the opportunity to access better projects and a good salary.

1. After the pandemic many people have changed their minds completely and they are giving other priorities different from the work. Millennials have realized that money and power are not the only values in life. Companies require more and more commitment from their employees such as staying connected after work time.
2. The company I am working for gives importance to the division of labor and employee ranking. Every year all the employees have to fill in the performance assessment which it is the way to promote people or give them pay raises. When there is a vacancy in the organization, the company gives the opportunity through an internal promotion before looking for in the market.
3. I completely agree with this statement since I have suffered it personally. A year ago, my boss obliged me to assume more responsibility. I have not seen any pay raise.
4. This statement is completely true. As a supervisor of my work team, it is supposed that all the work my colleagues do, have to be checked by me. That means that I have to face before the client and my superiors with any mistake which arise.
5. I do not see loyalty in companies since they only are looking for achieving the greatest benefit for themselves. I mean, if the company finds a person who can do the same work as another for less salary, they will not have any problem to make the change.
6. I suppose that when we get older our aspirations change. Some years ago I wanted to get more responsibility in my work but right now, I do not feel like fighting with my colleagues to get a position or keeping the current post.