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Is your Job Meaningful?
Anneke Zwart, Student (University), Netherlands, Moderator
Finding a purpose in your job is important for millennials and in fact for everybody.
Nevertheless, many people have a job that they don't regard as meaningful. Therefore, they are not completely satisfied.
 This is not really surprising, especially when realizing that many common occupations are not immediately associated with ‘meaning’. Think about jobs like: cashier, sales representative, administrative employee, factory worker.
But, doesn't it just depend on the way people define the word ‘meaningful’ when it comes to having a job? The former mentioned occupations, in the end, also help others within society. When ‘meaningful’ is associated with ‘giving’ and ‘helping others’, it means that nearly any role in any company can be seen as meaningful; each employee contributes to society In ...
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Kitten and Cat Perspective of Meaning
srinivas, Lecturer, India, Member A cat will shift its kitten by holding it with its teeth at some place in its neck which is safe and healthy to the kitten. If we see from kitten poin... |
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Is your Job Meaningful?
Josephat Olwal Ngesah, Kenya, Member This is an interesting topic and question.I would react to it by asking another question, do you live to work or you work to live?Depending on ... |
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Asking yourself "Is my Job Meaningful"?
Henegar, Director, Member It is good to see a young person at the dawn of her career asking this question. Over the years (4 decades plus), I've noted people starting to discov... |
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Choose a Study and Job you Like
Doaa Saayed, Student (University), Lebanon, Member In my opinion, choosing a job you like will lead you to having a meaningful job…
This already starts from choosing the major of your study. We kn... |
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Every Job Has Significance and Meaning Attached!
C.L. Kappagomtula, Professor, Malaysia, Member We may tend to think, that some jobs have no meaning attached and hence the person doing that job may feel out of place. But this premise is wrong. Ea... |
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Asking Yourself: Is My Job Meaningful?
joseph lemarleni, Manager, Kenya, Member It is much okay to say a job is meaningful because of someone's motivation associated in doing the job. But what if I ask this question: Does your job... |
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It's All About Alignment!
Sridhar Gopal, Management Consultant, India, Member To me as a business consultant and career mentor, I feel a job becomes your energizer when it aligns linearly with what you think, what you do and wha... |
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Is your Job Meaningful
Engel, Project Manager, Germany, Member Good question - and good quote by Steve Jobs.
Reasoning about the meaning of jobs is always well accompanied by a Jobs quote. By the way - Jobs l... |
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3 Factors for a Meaningful Job
Jose Luis Figueroa, Management Consultant, Mexico, Member A meaningful job is the one that is in line with your professional growth expectation (vision 5 - 10 years). It should include also social contributio... |
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A Meaningful Job Must Balance Needs
fred siyoi, Manager, Kenya, Member In my frame, a meaningful job should satisfy the balance between different competing needs.
These are family needs, clients needs (in my case pat... |
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Is your Job Meaningful?
anwer abdalla mohammed abubakr, Lecturer, Saudi Arabia, Member Regardless of the job satisfaction, I think it's meaningful to participate and be active in the society (your parents, brothers and sisters, neighbors... |
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Meaningful for Whom?
Oula denis Ignatius, Accountant, Uganda, Member Meaningfulness of a job may be looked at from different perspectives. It may be from an employer's point of view, an employee point of view and societ... |
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What is Enough?
S. Lago, Business Consultant, Canada, Member Job satisfaction is tied to life satisfaction and is different for each individual. Most unhappiness in life is created from unmet expectations. How d... |
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Examples of Reframing Meaningful Work
Maurice Hogarth, Consultant, United Kingdom, Member Anneke I like the image of ‘reframing’ roles to show people their part in the ‘big picture’.
Your topic relates to Job Satisfaction; to the ‘atmo... |
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