Question

HRM 110 – ASSIGNMENT

While there are many parent education programs available and certainly substantial research on parents, none are based on an overall theoretical model regarding who parents are and how they develop in relation to the parenting role. The Parent Development Theory (PDT) can assist professionals in organizing their thinking, practice, and research regarding parenting.

Required

In view of the above, critically

a-Analyse the concept of parenting in relation to the parent development theory.

b-Evaluate the characteristics of the authoritative parents and the authoritarian parents and relate these to real life situations.

c-Explain how employees that are nurtured under permissive parenting style can be supported to enhance their performance in an organisation.

d-Describe the characteristics of persons that are raised in neglected parenting style and explain the strategies that can be used to help them enhance their behaviour and abilities.

Answer 1

a)Parenting is a comprehensive and complex process of rearing up a child to a civil adult.Originally called the Parent Role Development Theory (PRDT), the PDT considers parenting by examining the important social role which parents play (Mowder, 1991, 1993, 1997). The parent role is important to understand since it is through this role that individuals perceive what parenting involves and consequently parent children. When individuals interact with their children, they are performing the role of being a parent. Therefore, the PDT defines who parents are, examines the parent role individuals play, clarifies how parents and parenting develop and change over time, and explains how the parent role relates to parenting activities. Parents' perceptions of their role are not only affected by their own developmental experiences, changes, and needs, but also by their changing, growing, developing child. For example, children need continuous care as infants, but as they grow their parental needs change. The PDT addresses the issue of parenting by examining how parents, their parent role perceptions, and consequent parenting shifts and changes over time as parents adjust and respond to their own experience, their children, the parent-child relationship, family dynamics, and the social-cultural milieu.

b) The authoritative parenting style consists of high expectations as well as the support and resources that children need to succeed. The parents who exemplify this style listen to their children and provide warmth and love.By being available and open with their children, authoritative parents are creating a loving and fair atmosphere. Encouraging children as well as challenging them is a big part of authoritative parenting.Following are some of the characteristics of this style of parenting:

1. Encouragement to express thoughts and opinions
2. Administration of fair and consistent discipline
3. Expressing love and warmth towards the child
4. Open discussions are held in family
5. Parents listen to their child
6. Setting up limits and explaining the reason of such limitations

c) Permissive parents tend to be very loving, yet provide few guidelines and rules. These parents do not expect mature behavior from their children and often seem more like a friend than a parental figure.Because there are few rules, expectations and demands, children raised by permissive parents tend to struggle with self-regulation and self-control.Some strategies that can help the performance of employee in an organisation are:

1. Develop a list of basic organisational rulesand goals. In order for your employees to know how they are supposed to behave, they need to clearly understand what your expectations are.​
2. Make sure your employees understand the penalty of breaking the rules. Guidelines are useless unless there is some sort of consequence for failing to follow them.
3. By providing adequate feedback and explanations. Feedback to employees help them to understand where they lack and what needs to be improved.
4. Reward good behavior. Try to catch your employees being productiveand allow special privileges when they display these actions.

d) Neglectful or uninvolved parenting is the method where parents neglect their children to a certain degree for different reasons, their perceived lack of time, stress, personal problems, and substance abuse being some of them. Parents who exhibit an uninvolved parenting style were often themselves raised by uninvolved and dismissive parents. As adults, they may find themselves repeating the same patterns they were raised with. Other parents who display this style may simply be so caught up in their busy lives that they find it easier to take a hands-off approach to dealing with their children.Effects of neglected parenting style are:

• The lack of parenting and love will hinder development and cause other kinds of problems, like bad behavior or drug abuse.
• This robs children of their childhood, forcing them to be responsible for themselves and grow up too quickly.
• Emotionally Withdrawn
• Due to lack of the support of the family. It is easy to become overwhelmed by life, and this deficit will have serious effects on their self confidence.
• Neglect has been linked to illnesses such as panic disorder, PTSD, ADHD and even some dissociative disorders.

Following are some strategies you may consider:

1. Choose your moment wisely, with few distractions, when you parents are in a calm mood. Decide whether to talk with one parent first, or both together.
2. Tell them that this is a new discovery about yourself that you wish to share with them.
3. Be clear that this is not a matter of blame, and not an accusation; you are talking with them about it only because you want to move forward and be closer to them.
4. Tell them what you are doing to heal
5. talk about how easy it is for loving, well-meaning parents to pass it down to their children.