Jain Digest 2000 07 Vol 16 No 03

Author(s): Federation of JAINA
Publisher: USA Federation of JAINA

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Young Jain Professionals
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Finally, we held elections during July. We are very pleased to announce the 2000-2001 Board: Avani Doshi doshiam@hotmail.com 708-848-6743 Manav Jain manavi@yahoo.com 818-360-4178 Sejal Khandwala Snk8274@aol.com 847-985-6858 Sanjay Mehta Sanjaym@aol.com 718-347-3083 Mamta Shah mshah@umdnj.edu 2 01-558-1684 Shilpa Shah shilpashah@attglobal.net 404-321-4637 Viral Shah viral@gobi-inc.com 917-822-4045
A retreat for the current and new boards will take place September 16 - 17, when we shall:
. Select the new Directorships; • Transfer knowledge between current directors and new
directors; and • Initiate planning for the next year
Shortly after the retreat, the structure of the new Board will be announced. It has been an exciting year and productive year
they move the organization forward in meeting your needs. The 1999-2000 YJP Board Mona Kothari, Jugna Shah, Saurabh Dalal, Manav Jain, Birju Patel, Ronak Shah, Shilpa Shah. Please visit www.homestead.com/ yip for more information about YJP.
Participants of the rafting trip were asked to fill in the following survey before attending the trip. It asks about how you would act in various situations that would challenge your belief in the Kashayas. The responses are noted beside each choice. 1. After the success of a non-profit organization's annual gala fundraiser that you coordinated, the president takes all the credit at the press conference. Do you: a. Keep quiet for the good of the organization. -- 71% b. Tell everyone at the press conference you did the work. -10% c. Stop working with the organization. - 10% d. Plot against the president within the organization. -0% e. Withhold key information from the president in the future. -10% 2. You are going to leave your current employment. In your performance review discussion, your manager informs you about a promotion and 5 weeks of expensive training. Do you: a. Accept the promotion, knowing you will leave the job anyway. - 5% b. Tell the manager about your plans but ask him/her not to reveal the information. - 57% c. Decline the promotion. - 24% d. Change your plans to leave the company. - 14%
3. You are supposed to help your son/daughter with their science experiment, but you end up taking over. The project wins first place and a valuable prize at the local science fair. Do you: a. Say nothing. - 59% b. Tell everyone you, and not your son/daughter, did the project. - 5% c. Say nothing, but quietly give the award to charity. – 36% d. Gloat about your son/daughter's intelligence - 0% 4. A buyer test-drives your car with no problems. But, you know it has periodic engine trouble. Do you: a. Say nothing about the engine trouble. - 9% b. Inform the buyer about the engine trouble, but insist on the purchase price purchase price. - 83% c. Say nothing about the engine trouble, but reduce the asking price in the course of negotiations. - 9% d. Tell the buyer that the car runs perfectly. -0% 5. You make significantly more money than your spouse does. Taking a six-months to a year leave from work would not impact your career path significantly but a similar leave would negatively affect your spouse's career path. You and your spouse want to start a family. However, you both agree that one parent must stay home due the lack of suitable childcare. Do you: a. Stay at home once the child is born. - 76% b. Ask your spouse to stay at home once the child is born. - 6% c. Use the available childcare even though you are not completely satisfied with it. -0% d. Have one of your parents move in to provide childcare. - 12% e. Defer having children to a later date. - 6% 6. Rank the Kashayas in descending order of difficulty for you to overcome. (1 being most difficult) a. Anger- 1) 76% 2) 14% 3) 5% 4) 5% Average response = 1.39 b. Deceit - 1) 10% 2) 5% 3) 20% 4) 65% Average response = 3.40 c. Ego - 1) 10% 2) 60% 3) 15% 4) 15% Average response = 2.35 d. Greed - 1) 5% 2) 15% 3) 60% 4) 20% Average response = 2.95 7. Agree or Disagree: (1 = strongly agree, 5 - strongly disagree) After reaching a comfortable income level and job satisfaction in a demanding position, a more demanding, lucrative, and stressful professional opportunity presents itself. All other factors being equal, I would choose the new opportunity. Average response = 3.64. The range is as follows: 1) 10% 2) 10% 3) 14% 4) 43% 5) 24%
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