peer comments

Julia:
 what do you mean level?  the level means the personal trait?

Pearl: 

• In your second paragraph, you refer the personal trait
• but i do not know what you actually want to say.
  
  
  So does it means that parents should follow their personal traits to decide whether their children should inherit the firm or not?
  
  
  I think it is boring to talk about the personal traits by classing characters

   and I really want to say it can not prove anything.
  
  
  • I think your reason and your result are not clear.
  • when I read it I will think "so?"
  • when you revise you may build your structure again.
    LISA
    so what is your point about this source?
    
    
    so you  just want to show the factors of your issue in this annotation?
    
    
    i wonder what you think about your issue after knowing the factors.
    
    
    can you tell us your view about your issue? u think that the children succeed their parent's business is good or not good?

(REVISED) ANNOTATION 3

The Determinants of Career Choice Intentions of Adolescents with Family Business Background

Source: Elke Schröder, Eva Schmitt-Rodermund, and Nicolas Arnaud: Career Choice Intentions of Adolescents With a Family Business Background (SAGE journals, 2011)

After talking why parents try to pass down their firm to their children, here is factors that affect those children whether to take it or not.
In this essay, the author discusses different factors that affect the decision of career of children with family business background. He categorizes out five categories: personal traits, gender, identification with the family business, perception of fathers’ work conditions and parental succession preference and preparation.

About the gender, according to his research, it indicates that females, although not

actually excluded from the list of succession candidates, are disadvantaged comparing with male siblings; and offspring in family businesses who feel that the family firm is an important part of their self are thought to develop a strong desire to contribute to the family firm’s success, then they will tend to make a decision to start a career within the family firm; and fathers’ work condition also play an vital role. The author revealed that adolescents have relatively accurate impressions of their parents’ work-related effect and that these impressions are significantly linked to adolescents’ respect for their parents’ jobs, which may affect their decision; furthermore, research on parent’s role in youth career development demonstrates parents’ influence on adolescents’ career planning (Otto, 2000) and parents, especially mothers, are found to be the most important advisors of their children in the process of making career plans; and the last factor is that parents who systematically prepare their young family members through information and participation in the family business are likely to contribute to their offspring’s succession intention.

This essay clearly explained and analysis the condition that adolescents with family background face. How they are affected in the career choosing part in their life by those factors simultaneously.