Keywords: youth sport, specialization, overuse injury, burnout, club volleyball.
As young women merge into the business world, the business environment structure often asks them to adjust or change their identity to be accepted by their male peers. Such identity changes include adopting masculine forms of professional dress, building relationships in the workplace, and dealing with personal life. Through a qualitative research methodology, the study explores the communication practices that women engage in to succeed in the masculine business/corporate environment. Research indicates various types of limitations in masculine environments in connection with the flexibility of schedule, equal pay, and balance between professional and family life, leading to emotional and psychological impacts. Moreover, findings indicate the use of resistance tools to assist women in the corporate/business environment in leadership mentoring, education, and information found on apps and social media. I highlight practical implications, discuss limitations, and provide recommendations for future directions.
This qualitative project was done as a way to learn more about the personal experiences of Asian American participants surrounding education and how it has impacted their identities, and questions how and if the model minority stereotype has impacted the Asian American student particiapnts. 14 participants were interviewed one-on-one to see if there were any patterns in values that their parents had pushed, and revealed that cultural expectations influence the participants’s educational choices, leading to self-regulation in regards to education. Because the shared trait of these participants are being current Asian American students in university at the time of their interviews, experiences range with how acculturated their parents are, the ethnic background of their families, and prior expectations with education.
Conversations between immigrant parents and their Americanized children are often difficult conversations to approach. Children are expected to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives from a young age. Sometimes, what the child wants to do does not align with what their parents want them to do. It is hard to approach those conversations about pursuing higher education, especially when the response is an unknown variable. This research study aims to determine how those conversations about higher education were viewed from the standpoint of the young adult child. It investigates young adults whose ages span from 18 to 24 and how those conversations they had when they were younger impacted who they became. Using data collected from twelve interviewees whose gender, age, and ethnicity varied, this study examines specific instances in those conversations about higher education between the young adult and their immigrant parents and the main factors behind some shared experiences. I discuss those factors, as well as limitations within the study, and provide future direction recommendations.
Arizona FBLA Collegiate inspires and prepares students to become community-minded business leaders through relevant career preparation and leadership experiences. AZ FBLA Collegiate has suffered a significant decrease in membership and participation due to a lack of marketing historically. Through the use of a strategic marketing campaign, AZ FBLA Collegiate has increased brand awareness and possesses the ability to recruit and retain active members. A thesis is presented alongside a PowerPoint presentation which outlines a strategic marketing campaign with a concentration in digital marketing for AZ FBLA Collegiate that is tied to organizational goals. This PowerPoint and thesis include research and implementation of reverse marketing tactics within the AZ FBLA Collegiate website, Facebook, and Instagram. There was also the creation of a multitude of marketing materials, including a Linktree, publication designs, and video interviews with alumni. The final PowerPoint and thesis aim to not only present a guide for FBLA Collegiates' marketing campaign but explain the evolution that AZ FBLA Collegiate has gone through in terms of marketing.