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Work or labor (labour in Commonwealth English) is the intentional activity people perform to support the needs and desires of themselves, other people, or organizations. [1] In the context of economics , work can be viewed as the human activity that contributes (along with other factors of production ) towards the goods and services within an ...
Activity theory (AT; Russian: Теория деятельности) [1] is an umbrella term for a line of eclectic social-sciences theories and research with its roots in the Soviet psychological activity theory pioneered by Sergei Rubinstein in the 1930s.
Emotional labor is an essential part of many service jobs, including many types of sex work. Through emotional labor sex workers engage in different levels of acting known as surface acting and deep acting. These levels reflect a sex worker's engagement with the emotional labor.
Positive psychology's emphasis on gainful employment has increased the amount of recent publications on gainful employment and its impact on quality of life and illnesses like depression. [3] Present measurements of employment emphasize decreasing the unemployment, as opposed to increasing gainful employment. Positive psychology argues that ...
The affective labor created to address this alienation is part of the mechanisms where the agnotological order maintains its grip on the social: managing the emotional states of the consumers, who also serve as the labor reserve, is a necessary precondition for the effective management of the quality and range of information.
Emotion work is understood as the art of trying to change in degree or quality an emotion or feeling. [1]Emotion work may be defined as the management of one's own feelings, or work done in an effort to maintain a relationship; [2] there is dispute as to whether emotion work is only work done regulating one’s own emotion, or extends to performing the emotional work for others.
Cognitive labor is sociological and feminist concept referring to the invisible mental work many women do in relationships and families. [1] It is related to invisible labor , emotional labor , and unpaid work [ 2 ] while emphasizing the cost of planning, organizing, scheduling, managing and worrying, in addition to "executing."
Work design (also referred to as job design or task design) is an area of research and practice within industrial and organizational psychology, and is concerned with the "content and organization of one's work tasks, activities, relationships, and responsibilities" (p. 662). [1]