Wake Magazine

Play is different. It is fun, an outlet from work, without serious purpose except to make us happier, more efficient, more relaxed and longer lasting working human machines. It is the man equipped with proper skills and positive attitude towards work and values that can help recover a tattered economy and transform a nation. There is something thought that puzzles the mind if work is indispensable to man and the worker is inseparable to business and industry why is the world having a problems with workers and about work?There seems to be the unending dissolutions between labor and management, between employees and employers, between employees and employees.

Perhaps we could gain greater insight into the problem of work by looking at the different view on work. A man’s view on work shapes his attitudes and influences his behavior. Attitudes are, therefore, deemed an important variable as well as an indicator of behavior in nearly all walks of life, religious, governmental, administrative, economic, commercial, industrial and many  more. few would deny that attitudes are one of the major influences on behavior. Attitude are formed in the interest of one’s goal and objectives.

Ability is an individual’s capacity to perform the various tasks in a job. men aren’t equal in abilities. Everyone has strengths and weakness in terms of ability that make him or relativity superior or inferior to others in performing task or abilities. An individual’s overall abilities are made up to skills: intellectual and physical. Intellectual abilities are those needed to perform mental activities. IQ test are designated to ascertain one’s intellectual abilities.

Jobs differ in the demands they place on incumbents to use their intelligence. Generally speaking, the higher an individual rises in an organizational hierarchy, the more general intelligence and verbal abilities will be necessary to perform the job successfully doing less skilled and more standardized jobs in the lower part of the organization. Jobs in which success demands stamina, manual dexterity, leg strength, or similar talents require management to identify an employee’s physical capabilities.

The most common view of motivation is that human beings are rational animals motivated by money and other material rewards. And for many people in different situations, money is important. However, some people place greater value on social approval, prestige, and status than on money. This view of man as a social being emphasizes that man is governed more by the informal organization’s logic of sentiments than by the formal organization’s logic efficiency. More recently, behavioral scientists have found that high employee morale does not necessarily result in greater productivity and that man’s motivations are vastly more complex than can be explained in economic or social terms alone. Many theorist and managers now believe that the psychological contact but for self esteem, autonomy, and self-actualization.

Different people want and need different things in different situations at different times. In the job situation, the worker may be seeking satisfaction for his material need his social needs, his needs for self esteem, respect from others, and self fulfillment.

But work is also a major means of dealing with our fears, worries,and anxieties. work enables all of us to keep a lid on the id. It acts as a pressure release. because work binds the individual to reality, the loss of work can become a loss of structure upon which our physical health and psychological balance depend.

The strongest influence on a child’s perception is his or her family. Since th parents have already developed of their attitudes and perceptions to their children. It is no accident that most Roman Catholics come from roman Catholic families.

A child whose father is a strong believer in trade unions is much more likely to grow up with similar attitudes and values. the attitudes and values provided by the family are therefore, of primary importance.