Dignity And Workful Work

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Introduction Dignity and meaningful work, is an important topic to be discussed as it can influences employees` feeling, and their feelings are enabled influencing their performance during the workplace. According to Sayer (2007: p.565), “Dignity is crucial for our well-being and a significant influence on job satisfaction.” Therefore, the general business performance of a company will be affected. In regard to dignity, there are numbers of author have discussed this topic. (Kant 1790, Hodson 1996) According to Sensen (2011), however, he considers that the meaning of dignity has been changed because of the change of culture, technology, and also lifestyle. Therefore, it made us think about do we need to rethink about the meaning of dignity? In the following, there will being discussed some concept of dignity and meaningful work. After that, there will also being provided my own working experience during the workplace with some opinions of other candidates, in order to provide evidences for analyzing and understanding young employees towards dignity and meaningful work, and explore how they think about dignity and meaningful in their work. Literature Review: According to Bolton (2006), he mentioned dignity during workplace can be divided as two part- “dignity in work” and “dignity at work”. Dignity at work, which is referring to dignity, is satisfied by materialism, and also relatively tangible, and easier to be defined. For example, wellbeing, just rewarded, voice, security, and equal opportunity etc. Those elements can be provided by the company, and compare with “dignity in work”, it tends to be objectivity. On the other hand, the elements of “dignity in work” are more difficult to be satisfied as they are more subjective wh... ... middle of paper ... ...and their impact towards dignity of employee in workplace. On the other hand, young employees mainly focus on “dignity in work” rather than “dignity at work”, as they may consider job opportunities, feeling in work and meaningful work are more important than how many salary they earn. However, the meaning of dignity or other elements, such as autonomy and respect, can be different from different young employees. Therefore, employers and managers need to build positive and close relationship with young employees, in order to understand their thought of dignity and those relevant factors, and also mental needs, which enable organization to develop sustainably as prevent the loss of new young employees. Hence, organization needs to communicate with their young employees, and accept their feedback during the work, although this personalized method may be time-costing.

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