Why Do Less Formal Education View Interns

University of the Bahamas

School of Social Sciences

Department of Psychology

Exercise 2: Perspective

Completed in Partial Fulfillment of the Course Requirement for Psy 460

Student Name: Divinia Mortimer

Student Number: 06-4496

Lecturer Name: Dr. Hutcheson

Due Date: February 2018 I think supervisor 's, administrators and other professional staff view interns as individual 's entering the job market with new innovative ideas and skills meaning that they view interns as individuals with advanced insights about completing a task. The positive ideas supervisors, administrators, and other professional staff have about Interns are that they can challenge the way things are done and provide a better way of completing tasks that other

The negative idea staff with less formal education may hold is that the interns are going to replace them eventually. Staff with less formal education may believe that interns are coming into the business to receive training to replace them because the interns are now going to be qualified for the position. Another way in which staff with less formal education may view interns are as free labors. The negative idea about this perspective is that the staff with less education may give the interns task and duties that other employees do not want to complete thus providing them with medial job duties. Additionally, the staff with less formal education may take advantage of interns by having the interns work for free completing task that the employer would otherwise have to pay for. The positive aspect of interns working with staff that have less formal education is that, it may give the staff the ability to observe interns that are working productively and report to upper management about their performance. Furthermore, it will give employers an access to a pool of potential

This can produce a negative atmosphere because if interns are not fully able to interact with the clients they won 't be able to gain experience during the internship. Also, the negative thoughts and actions of the client can transfer over to the interns and lower their self-esteem thus resulting in a lower performance on the job. However, this same perspective that clients have of interns can transform into something positive for the interns. The interns in return can change the negative feedback from the clients and use it to help them perform to the best of their ability to change the mindset of the