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L2 Key Concepts English

This document defines key concepts related to work and self-employment, including terms like entrepreneur, employment, informal and formal labor, and ecological systems model. It explores the meaning of an authentic entrepreneur, and discusses different systems that can influence an individual's development over time including the micro, meso, exo, macro, and chronosystems. The document also defines work as the organized production of products and services.

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L2 Key Concepts English

This document defines key concepts related to work and self-employment, including terms like entrepreneur, employment, informal and formal labor, and ecological systems model. It explores the meaning of an authentic entrepreneur, and discusses different systems that can influence an individual's development over time including the micro, meso, exo, macro, and chronosystems. The document also defines work as the organized production of products and services.

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Key concepts ‒ lesson 2: What is work and self-employment?

Concept Meaning
Authentic A person who lives purposefully and creates a
entrepreneur meaningful lifestyle
Chronosystem A change in individuals over time and space
Ecological systems Multiple environmental and external influences
model between an individual, a group and the environment
where transformation occurs between input and
output
Employment Activities performed for others in exchange for pay or
profit
Entrepreneur A specialist taking risks and creating industries
Entrepreneurial A regional economic development strategy based on
ecosystem creating supportive structures and environments that
support environments that foster self-employment
Exosystem It includes access to education, finance, housing and
employment; it can exclude some individuals
Formal labour Salaried or waged workers enjoying social protection
Informal labour Workers who are not waged or salaried and do not
have social protection
Macro system Social clubs, professional organisations and institutions
Meso system It includes schools, churches and employers; it can
exclude people of different cultures and languages
Micro system The inner world of the person; it consists of those
people and organisations with whom intimate and
frequent contact exists
Von Bertalanffy It connects a system to its environment
model through “intake, conversion and output”
Work A multi-purpose function of organised production
processes of products and services

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