{"id":4525,"date":"2021-01-21T08:40:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T03:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qorax.in\/wordpress\/?p=777"},"modified":"2023-01-10T12:42:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T12:42:52","slug":"neurons-networks-metaphor-for-21st-century-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturelligence.com\/culture2023\/neurons-networks-metaphor-for-21st-century-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuronal Networks \u2013 Metaphor For 21st Century Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4525\" class=\"elementor elementor-4525\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c903b38 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c903b38\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3d8a501\" data-id=\"3d8a501\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8bf3937 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8bf3937\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.12.2 - 23-04-2023 *\/\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}<\/style><h1 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Neuronal Networks \u2013 Metaphor For 21st Century Workforce<\/h1>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fd359db elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fd359db\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-7069850\" data-id=\"7069850\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-6686a3d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6686a3d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-58fb4e9\" data-id=\"58fb4e9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e425e29 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"e425e29\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What Are Neurons & Networks?\n<\/h6>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23c5ea6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"23c5ea6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.12.2 - 23-04-2023 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Neurons<\/strong>\u00a0serve as a medium of communication (facilitated by synapses) within the human system and brain by processing signals physiologically and electrochemically. In other words, neurons are considered as the building blocks of the nervous system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Networks<\/strong>\u00a0can be considered as analogous to the processes and lateral links established by the neurons and synapses with other parts of the body and nerve cells to coordinate physical muscular movements, cognitive abilities, heartbeats\/rhythms, learning, etc. Therefore, facilitating a synchronistic physiological and psychological functioning of the human body.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5fbab20 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"5fbab20\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What Are Metaphors?\n<\/h6>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-796f042 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"796f042\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Metaphors have their own charm. Academic scholars, practitioners, poets, literature specialists, and others have used metaphors to better express ideas, thoughts, models, and resemblance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">The metaphor of gardening was used to illustrate effective management by Stephen R. Axley in his well-written article \u2018<em>How Does Your Garden Grow?<\/em>\u2019 An excerpt of this article can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.questia.com\/magazine\/1P3-222373901\/how-does-your-garden-grow\">https:\/\/www.questia.com\/magazine\/1P3-222373901\/how-does-your-garden-grow<\/a>. I read this article as a part of my school curriculum (graduated Fall 2016) and we were required to describe U.S. organization\/workforce metaphorically.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">I could relate today\u2019s 21st-century organization and workforce to\u00a0<em>neuronal networks\u00a0<\/em>due to my I described today\u2019s 21st-century organization and workforce as neuronal networks due to my passion for neuroscience, especially neuroplasticity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-text-color\">\n<p><em>Human brain\u00a0<\/em>consists of more than one hundred billion neurons, interconnected with each other through\u00a0<em>synapses.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b9d75b4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"b9d75b4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">There is a vast difference between what is meant by \u201cmental health\u201d and how is it perceived by society.<\/h6>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d67310 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7d67310\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>Feeling sad from time to time does not necessarily mean one is suffering from a diagnosable, quantifiable mental illness, such as Major Depressive Disorder. Similarly, many may joke about \u201cbeing OCD\u201d, meanwhile undermining the nature of the illness as well as those who live with it. It is, therefore, of utmost importance to distinguish between \u201cmental health\u201d as a fashionable, trendy and hackneyed buzzword and the harsh reality of being mentally unwell.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to a blog written by Kathy Edens, \u201cAwareness of our own and others\u2019 mental health is growing around the world, but sadly still hasn\u2019t shaken the <strong>stigma<\/strong> and <strong>embarrassment<\/strong>.\u201d Indeed, it is a sad truth that, even with the pandemic pushing the issue of mental health into the limelight, it is still labelled as an uncomfortable, disconcerting and awkward topic to address.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Let us now consider how \u201cmental health\u201d is approached in the <strong>current workplace<\/strong>. It seemed that \u2013 overnight \u2013 workers went from shaking each other\u2019s hands and enjoying a lunch break together to staring at the harsh light of computer screens. Interaction became isolation and communication a click; a smile a square on that screen. All too quickly, people were having to adopt novel methods of getting the job done, existing in a <strong>cyberspace workplace<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-de0a962 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"de0a962\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Today\u2019s U.S. (And Global) Organizations Can Be Considered Analogous To The Nervous Systems And The Workforce Members To Neurons \u2013 Building Blocks Of Organizations.\n<\/h6>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2eb3891 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2eb3891\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">\n<li>Each member in the organization uses his\/her cognitive abilities and brain capacities to achieve individual and organizational goals.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>While working towards set goals\/objectives, the neurons not only interact with the rest of the body system within an individual but, high-level interconnection occurs among neurons of the workforce members thereby establishing higher-order synapse and interconnections to establish networks, processes, and links within any given department\/division\/organization.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The above-mentioned networks recreate the team and group dynamics within the organization not only domestically but internationally considering the number of mergers and acquisitions global companies are doing.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These workforce neuronal networks work engagingly if communication flows properly within the organization. Any disruption in this flow disrupts certain network connections and synapses leading to organizational paralysis in achieving goals\/objectives.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This paralysis can be considered analogous to Alzheimer\u2019s or Parkinson\u2019s diseases or other nerve disorders where certain parts of the body\/brain fail to function systematically thereby impacting the whole nervous system or body system.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f35ab1e elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"f35ab1e\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">What Is Neuroplasticity?\n<\/h6>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0b2dabd elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0b2dabd\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Neuroplasticity<\/strong>\u00a0can be considered as an analogy to those global organizations that are referred to as learning organizations. The brain\u2019s plasticity nature can be attributed to the fact that the neurons and synapses keep reorganizing themselves throughout the human life span thereby forming new neural connections throughout life.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>Learning organizations<\/strong>\u00a0that emphasize learning and development tend to keep reorganizing themselves to be in sync with technological, global, and\/or other business advances. The neuroplasticity concept not only helps each member of the workforce to expand his\/her knowledge (provided the person is motivated to learn) but also new neural pathways are established through new interconnections and knowledge-sharing with other members or new members of the workforce.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-black-color has-text-color\">\n<p><em>What Metaphor would you use to describe today\u2019s global organizations and workforce?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\">Feel free to share your insights and let us together create an enriched mutual learning platform. Thank You!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Are Neurons &#038; Networks? 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