Usually, work is considered to be paid employment. As suggested by Watson (2012), people do series of tasks as work to make them living within the society and economic context. Besides by paid, work is important to humanity. Kohn and Schooler (1983) indicated that where work has substantive complexity where puts an improvement in mental flexibility and self-esteem. Applebaum (1992) also considered that work helps people to contact with social reality and self-status. For example, people may establish different relationships with their colleagues; employees might establish different attitudes towards jobs they like and hate. Another view of work emphasizes that ‘work’ not only includes paid work, but also includes unpaid work and some community …show more content…
Supported by Watson (2012), The relationship between the work and life is complex and can be viewed in many ways. Previous research defined three hypotheses of employee’s experience between work and nonwork life: spillover, compensation, and neutrality (Roberts, 1999).
Spillover as an extensive pattern, occurred when people feel difficult to separate themselves from work and life with doing work-related activities such as reading professional literature or planning future work outside of working time. Compensation as an opposite pattern, occurred when people hold negative attitude towards their job, draw a clear boundary and would look forward to doing things they like to compensate the painful experience they have suffered in working. Parker (1982) identified neutrality as when people were neither excited or disliked their work, they just treated work as a complementary part of their lives. But under the neutrality people still would seek for compensation for the deprivations endured working
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Work pressure or overload hinders people away from private life. For example, families which were irrupted by long working hours complained it was difficult for them to do housework or stay with children (Cousins & Tang, 2004). Moreover, reduced physical and psychological and lower job commitment draws depressive emotion to people, which will decrease both job and life satisfaction (Demerouti, Geurts, & Kompier, 2004; Peeters, Montgomery, Bakker, & Schaufeli, 2005). More terrible consequences will happen if individuals try to put more time and energy into their work, and those effect may be past to the next generation. That can be illustrated in Gheorghiţa (2014)’s case study: Growing up with absenteeism of busy-working father, a young accountant went to work at her very early age. In order to achieve job and position commitment, may be just like what her father had done, she worked day and night with low physical and psychological conditions, dead in her late 20s because of exhausted heart attack. In this case such impacts from work to life should give individuals or organisation an alarm on how to set work task, how to treat the task, and how to keep a dynamic balance between work and
Previous generations have a strong belief of keeping work and home life separate; that work is for work and home is for play (Rampell, 2011, para 21). Today’s professionals do not seem to abide by similar beliefs, constantly crossing the borders of one into the other. While many recognize this as an issue that could result in employees being less productive, it has actually resulted in them accepting that their work may run late into the evening or even into the weekend. I agree with this completely in that I grew up being taught that business is business and personal is personal; you leave your home life at the door. But now times have changed, and my weekends are no longer dedicated to my home life, but for work, because I attend classes during the week. Also, in my line of work in the Allied Health industry, it is a requirement to work off hours. Long gone are the days of working nine to five, Monday through Friday; technology and the demand of wanting affairs done and done as soon as possible, has made it so the “work week” is now 24-7. “Jon Della Volpe, the director of polling at Harvard Institute of Politics, said, ‘Some experts also believe that today’s young people are better at quickly switching from one task to another, given their exposure to so many stimuli during their childhood and adolescence’” (Rampbell,
The term, work can have several meanings and interpretations. Some people view work as a necessity and a social norm, others might view it with a negative perspective, giving how people are so dependent on it. Benjamin Franklin, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman all have a similar interpretation of work. Your encounters with society affects your actions, yielding a specific outcome. They all acted accordingly to what they observed around them, and the actions hey took was to yield a result of change.
Currently, human beings are thinking more on the line of they need work in order to make a living. For that reason, work has become meaningless, disagreeable, and unnatural. Many view work as a way to obtain money and not a meaningful human activity that one does for themselves. The author states that there are two reactions of the alienated and profoundly unsatisfactory character of the modern industrial work. One being the ideal of complete laziness and the other, hostility towards work. Fromm believes the reason why people have animosity regarding work is due to their unconscious mind. Subconsciously, a person has “a deep-seated, hostility towards work and all that is connected to it” says Fromm. I believe what Fromm is saying to be true, after all I witness it everyday. Millions of people each day goes to a work which they are dissatisfied with and that can negatively impact their attitude
People’s personal ethnic culture, personal belief and opinions can have an effect on the work they do as they may feel like something isn’t right, or they believe strongly towards or against something. As well as this, people’s attitudes can also have an effect on work itself due to something such as wages received. They may not feel like what one is gaining isn’t fair to what they are personally earning and this can cause people to slack or feel like they are being treated
This source explains the relationship between working overtime and the work-family conflict. With this source, they “investigated whether work-family conflict is prospectively related to adjustments in work schedules… in this relation”. (Jansen) They also wanted to prevent work- family conflict. They also know that balancing work and family is a challenge in today’s society for individuals. Consequences associated with work and family “job burnouts, psychological distress, depression, life dissatisfaction, elevated need for recovery from work, prolonged fatigue, and increased sickness absence”. (Jansen) The companies are starting to notices that employees are looking for other jobs that support them balance their work and family. Jansen used questionnaires to figure out the work-family conflict investigation. Each questionnaire was use with different types of working people. For example, the part-time and full-time workers. The results for the work-family conflict, “employees might adjust their working time arrangement to better reconcile work and family life…” (Jansen) They are considering their next research on the adjustments to “result in an improved work-family balance, improved health outcomes, and ultimately whether these adjustments prevent workers from leaving the labor force early.” (Jansen)
The term “work” is something that a person does in his or her life. They are processes that may or may not usually be counted as work. For example, we had to choose three types of work that our classmates wrote about in an essay. The three I chose were: 1) “Being a student at a university is not cheap and it is difficult to work full time as well as being a full time student.” This is a prime example of how an institution organizes or coordinates the way this person lives their life. In order for this person to pay the high cost of tuition they must work full time. But, it is hard for him/her to balance work and school work. Therefore, they need to pick one before their grades start to slip or they become stressed
Coming back to this research, Professor Robert and his colleagues categorized people’s relation with work in three distinct groups - Job, Career, and Calling. Here are brief descriptions of the three attitudes towards work:
...ying. However, people’s jobs can also be closely related to their personal interests and be enjoyable, stimulating and fulfilling. In fact, many people are anxious to work so that they can afford and enjoy certain luxuries. This can transform the dreadful and often stressful work into a desirable activity. Thus, division of labour can be fulfilling and desirable and related to individual’s personal interests.
The workplace in general is an essential part of a person’s life to make a living. People will work over a third of their life to fulfil needs such as bill, groceries, and personal needs. For majority of the population, there isn’t much of a problem when they are at work; their manager treats everyone fairly, pay rate is adequate, and they keep their private and public work separate from each other. The rest of the population unfortunately don’t have this fortune. Pay rates vary among colleagues, managers aren’t effective leaders, and the private life might become public in the workforce. This can lead to stress outside the workplace which can be harmful towards an individual’s health. This problem is an epidemic for some companies and poor
“Living to Work”, by Dorothy L. Sayers examines two classifications of people and their work. One group looks to work as a dreaded necessity, while the other group looks at their work as an opportunity for enjoyment and self-fulfillment. Altogether, their values, interests, and hard work all come down to money. For many, a “successful” worker is one who makes the most income and achieves the most fame. When it comes to interviews, the main questions are wages and hours. These people often fail to consider if the work is their actual passion--to do something they love. Partial blame goes out to our capitalist system and industrial machinery. We forget why we wake up each morning lose focus of what work really should be. But overall, the fact is that we must arrange our ideas where everybody has an opportunity to work hard and find happiness in doing well the work that needs to be done.
Why did I choose to write about workaholics? The main reason is that the general picture about these people is bad, but there are a lot of them around us and very often we admire them. They are doing exactly what they love – work – and they can never have enough of it. Although they spend most of their time working, surprisingly they are happy. They show so good results in what they do. But the consequences are great. Family life is disrupted, intellectual horizons narrow and the consequences to the workaholic's health are severe: fat, lack of exercise and stress. Why do people become workaholics? When a person becomes workaholic is there a way back? How should people around him act in order to keep both him and themselves happy? Lets start explaining what workaholics are, how they act and then we'll get answers to this questions.
Occupational stress is an expensive problem and is prevalent in work places nowadays since a third of employees are reported to have high levels of stress; three fourths believe that there are more on the job stress than previous generations while the other one fourth see their job as a cause of stress in their life. The article highlights some of the symptoms of on-job stress as increased isolation with others, suicidal thoughts, loss of interest in work, anxiety, workaholic tendencies, impatience among other things.
Workaholics – people, who have a compulsive and unrelenting need to work (www.dictionary.com) – appear more and more among the working people of United States and other developed countries. At first glance, workaholics do not seem to be such a problem for industry and society as a whole. But in spite of all devotion to their work the workaholic will not be as valuable as a normal worker. Workaholics do not think about anything else except work that can cause severe health problems and can cause problems on their work. All that causes a reduction of economic profit for the company.
What do people think about their life purpose? Most of us think about life that is studying hard in order to get a wonderful job, working hard, and getting married. They have dreamed of one day having an eternal vacation for themselves and not having to work anymore. The traditional people around the world consider that overworking is an essential condition for the early stage of their life. Especially in most of Asian countries, the average workweek is 48 hours. According to the fulltime employment, people work 35 to 40 hours per week to be defined as full-time. If more than that number, that should be considered overworking. Overworking is an important issue because that can lead to some serious consequences. Thus, we should consider work-life balance more seriously.
There have been various questions that have been asked concerning how people can balance their family lives and work life. Some researchers decided to do a research which showed that many people are not able to balance their family and work life. This is because they do not know how to do it (Fine-Davis, 2005). There is always too much pressure on one side of their life which leads to some of them ignoring one part of it. The other part gets too much attention. This then leads to an imbalance in the family life and work life. This has been the main problem that many employees are facing. They have to do it because when one side is neglected, it becomes relay difficult to make up f...