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    This document discusses different views on the meaning and value of work. It addresses whether work is simply a means to an end or an end in itself, and examines the responsibilities of employers. Work can provide instrumental benefits like income as well as psychological and social benefits. However, work can also reduce human fulfillment if it prevents the development of one's potential. The nature and conditions of work significantly impact both the worker and their mental health. Overall, the document analyzes the complex relationship between the individual, work, and the employer's role in ensuring humane and meaningful work.

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    This document discusses different views on the meaning and value of work. It addresses whether work is simply a means to an end or an end in itself, and examines the responsibilities of employers. Work can provide instrumental benefits like income as well as psychological and social benefits. However, work can also reduce human fulfillment if it prevents the development of one's potential. The nature and conditions of work significantly impact both the worker and their mental health. Overall, the document analyzes the complex relationship between the individual, work, and the employer's role in ensuring humane and meaningful work.

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    This document discusses different views on the meaning and value of work. It addresses whether work is simply a means to an end or an end in itself, and examines the responsibilities of employers. Work can provide instrumental benefits like income as well as psychological and social benefits. However, work can also reduce human fulfillment if it prevents the development of one's potential. The nature and conditions of work significantly impact both the worker and their mental health. Overall, the document analyzes the complex relationship between the individual, work, and the employer's role in ensuring humane and meaningful work.

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    The Meaning and Value of Work

    Chapter Five
    Some question to start our thinking
    about work
    • Is work simply a means to an end?
    • Is work itself possibly an end rather than a
    means?
    • What responsibilities does an employer have
    in this discussion?
    For what it is worth
    • There is a calculus related to freedom, work
    and debt
    • Low debt = greater degrees of freedom
    The Protestant work ethic
    • Genesis, Martin Luther,
    John Calvin, Benjamin
    Franklin
    – Work and the acquisition
    of wealth focus human
    attention away from
    mischief toward
    conducting a worthwhile
    life
    The Meaning of Work
    • How we think about work shapes our
    understanding of work. (Attitude counts big
    time)
    • Work defined: Perseverance, discipline, toil,
    serious, concentration. (add to the list)
    • Is work only an exchange for wages?
    Different views
    • Job – a role one steps into
    • Career – a path for development
    • Calling – Who you are is determined fully by
    what you do. Not morally inseperable
    Value of Work
    Instrumental value of work
    • Attain income
    • Psychic good – personal satisfaction, self-
    worth, happiness, achievement
    • Social good – We are social beings (Aristotle
    and need: social status, honor, respect,
    companionship, and camaraderie
    • Importance to community
    Douglas McGregor
    • Survival
    • Security
    • Acceptance by others
    • Association with others
    • Friendship
    • Self-Esteem
    • Status
    • Respect
    • Outlet for creativity
    • Self-development
    Do people have a moral and legal right
    to a job?
    Views of Work
    • Conventional - Classic
    – Work does violence to the human spirit (Stud
    Terkel)
    – Greek’s work should be avoided so that people
    pursue a life contemplation, art, politics, and
    culture
    – Human’s are intellectual being but work is physical
    – Work is glorified reducing human vitality
    Conventional - Hedonistic
    • Work is the price we pay to get the things that
    make life enjoyable
    • Work allows us to get what we want
    • Work is a means to our individually defined
    ends
    Human Fulfillment
    • Telos (Human Potential)
    • Teleological ethics – Life is to be spent
    developing and fulfilling our potential
    • What is lost if we do not work
    – Perseverance
    – Diligence
    – Concentration
    When people do not work
    • Lazy
    • Careless
    • Apathetic
    • Destruction of community
    • Valliant’s study (willingness and capacity to work
    childhood is a strong predictor of good mental
    health as an adult)
    • Big question revolves around the worker shaping
    work and work shaping worker
    Nature of work
    • Karl Marx
    – Alienation
    • Results when work
    prevents the full
    development of human
    potential by separating
    worker from final product,
    from the creative process,
    and from connection with
    each other
    • Not Cogito ergo sum (I
    think therefore I am)
    Laboro ergo sum (I work
    therefore I am)
    Liberal Model
    • Relationship between work and the workers
    ability to make free and autonomous choices
    about work
    • Bowie (If people are compelled to work the
    greater the employers responsibility to ensure
    that workplaces are humane as possible)
    • Primary goods required in the workplace to
    provide rights related to:
    – Autonomy
    – Rationality
    – Physical and mental health
    In Sum
    • Employer obligation to:
    – Allow for participation
    – Provide due process
    – Provide Healthy and safe working conditions
    – Fair wages
    – Fair benefits
    – Training and education
    – Privacy
    • Highly routinized work is OK if people choose the
    work free of external constraints

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