PSYC 3490 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Job Satisfaction, Equal Pay For Equal Work, Glass Ceiling
15 Dec 2013
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Work also rewards with friendship, the chance to exercise power, and feeling useful. Although most people and the main purpose of work is money or to make a living, other reasons are highly variable, they include, prestige, recognition, and a sense of worth. Job strain: the balance between the psychological demands of a job and the amount of control a worker has in that job (and the relation with the decision to retire) Information from national population health survey suggests job strain is related to decision to retire. Job strain affected retirement decision for people in managerial, technical, or professional jobs but not so much those in service and blue-collar occupations. Global competition means workers in canada competing for jobs with workers in same industries in. Globalization has resulted in extensive changes in number and types of jobs available. Full-time work has been increasingly replaced by part-time work and manufacturing jobs have been lost.
