The best job I’ve ever had (besides this one) was a labyrinthine bookstore. The old building housed literature in every room from the basement to the upper room. My job as a teenager was to book books, fix uncontrolled sections, and run a coffee shop. The house was so big I put a baby monitor on my jeans to let someone know when the service bell rang. There were running up and down stairs, but there was always tea time and discussions with my old boss, who was smart, funny, and kind.
Economists increasingly assume that job quality is as important as quantity. Dani Rodrik, professor of economics at Harvard, he believes one of the “major problems of modern capitalism” is its “inability to generate adequate statistics for good works”. They see evidence of this by dividing labor markets, rising land inequality and declining job security.
Daron Acemoglu, professor of MIT, he protests that “no known humanitarian community has ever been able to make a living by dividing it” and that “it is the good works, not the distribution, that give people the purpose and meaning in life”.
Economists are not the only ones who care. Employers who struggle with unemployment also want to know how to be happy in the workplace.
But what makes a job better? Researchers have come up with various theories based on what has been researched. Another European study he finishes that “higher employment can lead to higher and more complex jobs, as well as higher wages, job security and development opportunities”.
My work in the library could not do any of those boxes. Similarly, when I he asked people on Twitter to tell me about their favorite jobs, the news I received comes from a morning running job at a “drive-through” donut shop watching movies to choose the age they should be. I heard from teachers, bricklayers, fundraisers, electronics and students.
Some people thought things were very different. The journalist spoke of being a foreign journalist during the crisis in Asia. “Everything I saw on the streets was meaningful. The invisible walls around the work look like finished. ”Some preferred jobs where those invisible walls were hollow. “[I] Don’t take me to work at home, I don’t think about work when I am at home, ”said another. Some preferred work where the work was their passion or hobby; others found happiness in having happy companions in other boring activities.
One obvious conclusion is that different activities interact with different people in their lives. There is no hope of progress and £ 3 an hour was nothing to me as a teenager, but it would be to someone with rent and responsibilities. This poses a challenge for students who want to define and measure the amount of “good jobs” in economics.
That said, one well-known thread connects many people’s stories of their favorite activities: a good boss who gave them self-control and “had their back”.
Research confirms the importance of good line management. The other UK learning in the NHS Trusts found that the trustees had a “positive publicity”, as support managers, had the opportunity to find more satisfied staff, less work and more satisfied patients. Research and the Office of National Statistics has found an excellent link between the multiplicity of management systems and the productivity of labor.
Employers in the UK invest extraordinarily small amounts of money in the most important areas. Boma research in mid-2017 it was found that only two-thirds of employers had provided any training to employees in the last 12 months, of which only 35 percent provided management training. The cohort of “supervisory” staff was very small who received training in the 12 months prior to the recruitment of recruits, with only one cohort in which less than half were trained.
Teaching is not all things, of course. Managers also need to be given the wisdom, time and confidence to manage their teams. Some business principles or goals could jeopardize these relationships. Performance management which forces supervisors to allocate a stable portion of their organization as high, middle and low performers, for example, turning their peers into competitors and bosses into enemies. The same programs supervisors or counting employees may also undermine trust between employers and their employees.
The good news for employers is that you do not have to pay well or offer the best in order to have a good working environment. The bad news is that if you run an organization where bad managers are ignored or paid, no free products or meditation programs can fix it.
