FRHD 2060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Blue-Collar Worker, Social Cognitive Theory, Job Satisfaction
7 Oct 2016
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The meaning most of us derive from working includes both the money that can be exchanged for life necessities and the possibility of personal growth. What specific occupation a person holds appears to have no effect on their need to derive meaning from work. Meaning can be the difference between feeling work is the source of ones life problems or a source of fulfillment and commitment. 4 common meanings that describe work: developing self, union with others, expressing self, and serving others understand occupation selection and transition as a means to find better balance amoung the four. Explains how sorporate executives with a better alignment between their personal intentions and their firms mission care more about their employees happiness, job satisfaction and emotional well being. Even by adolescence there is evidence occupational preferences are related to their personalities. Posits people build careers though their own actions that result from the interface of their own personal characteristics and the social context.
