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Work Values: Firly Dina Arofah Yuniatri Intan Kusuma Ningrum

The document discusses work values and ethics in the United States. It describes how the Protestant work ethic influenced early American culture by associating material success with God's favor. Today, the work ethic is focused more on materialism. It also discusses the American Dream myth that anyone can become successful through hard work regardless of background. While some poor immigrants rose up, social mobility is now less common. The document also covers job satisfaction factors like rewards and upward mobility. It defines workaholism and lists signs of a workaholic. Finally, it notes the importance of leisure and challenges of separating work from personal life in American culture.

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Work Values: Firly Dina Arofah Yuniatri Intan Kusuma Ningrum

The document discusses work values and ethics in the United States. It describes how the Protestant work ethic influenced early American culture by associating material success with God's favor. Today, the work ethic is focused more on materialism. It also discusses the American Dream myth that anyone can become successful through hard work regardless of background. While some poor immigrants rose up, social mobility is now less common. The document also covers job satisfaction factors like rewards and upward mobility. It defines workaholism and lists signs of a workaholic. Finally, it notes the importance of leisure and challenges of separating work from personal life in American culture.

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WORK VALUES

Firly Dina Arofah


Yuniatri Intan Kusuma Ningrum
WORK ETHIC

• “Puritan Ethic” or “Protestant Ethic” influenced the work ethic in the United States
around 1600s.

• The ethic was an outcome of the religious belief that material success was a sign of
God's favor, and that those who achieved this success were among God's "chosen" and
would go to heaven.

• Today, the work ethic is still important, particularly in the middle and upper classes,
even though it has lost its religious significance. Therefore, the outcome changes into
materialism: the tendency to be concerned with wealth and possessions.
AMERICAN DREAM

● Stories entitled “American Dream” written by a 19th


century American novelist, Horatio Alger, made people
believe that there is equality of opportunity that allows
anyone to become successful.

● The stories reinforced the idea that all individuals, no


matter how poor, were capable of becoming wealthy as
long as they were diligent and virtuous.
● Unfortunately, Alger's stories do not represent the reality of opportunity.
● It was true that many poor immigrants who came to the United States in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries were able to rise on the social and economic scales. Today,
however, the poor generally do not rise to the middle and upper classes. The
"American Dream" is now described as a myth.
Rewards and
Job Satisfaction
Job Satisfaction

● Upward (occupational) mobility or


Climbing the Ladder are terms that refer to
someone’s career development.
● Some business, organizations, government
agencies, and firms provides employees with
the opportunities to progress to higher
positions.
● Job satisfaction is “the calculation of one’s
total feelings and attitudes towards one’s
job” (Graham (1982, p. 68).
● It represents how you feel about your job and
what you think about your job.
Job Satisfaction Factors
● Job satisfaction has a moderately positive relationship
with job performance and a strong positive
relationship with organizational commitment.
● The findings of Lam’s (2001) show that job satisfaction
and rewards are positively and significantly
associated, furthermore the rewards are important
factors in predicting employee’s job satisfaction.
Workaholic
● There are people who are especially attracted to the notion of
"climbing the ladder" so as to increase their status, financial
position, and sense of self-worth.
● A workaholic is a person who works compulsively. In other
words, a workaholic can be described as someone who is
addicted to work.
● Asian countries have the longest work hours worldwide while
European countries have short work hours per week.
● Longer work hours does not always mean more productive.
● America has 34.4 work hours per week for full-timers and part-
timers minus any holidays (Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development, 2015).
Modern Workaholic
● The average employed American
spends 7.5 hours looking at a screen
on a day.
● Nearly half of employed Americans
consider themselves Modern-Day
Workaholics.
● The average employed American
also spends an additional 4 hours a
week just thinking about work.
10 Signs of A Workaholic

1. Prioritizing work before personal life


2. Worrying about work on a day off
3. Struggling to switch off or actually working while on a
vacation
4. Checking emails in the middle of the night
5. Being the first person to get to work and last to leave
6. Feeling pressured or too busy to take annual leave
7. Working through lunch
8. Feeling anxious or lost if I don’t check in/know what’s
happening at work
9. Being told by friends/family I work too much
10. Checking emails first thing in the morning
The effects of being a workaholic
Leisure and
Socializing
● There is a growing realization in the United States that
excessive work demands can be physically and mentally
harmful. Thus, many people claimed that giving personal
relationships and non-work activities are important.
● However, although leisure in the US has been increased,
it does not changed the idea that work and play are
distinct activities. It is clearly distinct between “work-
hours” and “after-work-hours”. We cannot mix the two.
● Socializing among employees is discouraged in many
offices, stores, and factories.
● An employee under pressure at work often cannot afford
respond to social calls and visits.

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