Chapter 5 The Meaning and Value of Work
Chapter Five – The Meaning and Value of Work
Review Questions
1. Explain at least three different meanings of the word work. Do any of these meanings
include some value component?
2. How would you distinguish a job from a career from a calling?
3. What are the two different trends within the conventional view of work?
4. How does the Greek Philosophical notion of a telos relate to the human fulfillment theory
of work?
5. How can work become meaningful under the liberal model of work?
6. How might a defender of the liberal model criticize the human fulfillment model of
work?
Chapter Five – The Meaning and Value of Work
Discussion Questions
1. Compare the benefits one might receive from working at Mozilla to work at Microsoft, or
working at Grameen Bank to work at a local bank. How are they likely to differ? How are
they likely to be similar?
2. Could you ever envision a point in your own life before retirement when you would be
willing to trade wages and income for more leisure time? Besides taking time away from
work to raise a family, what other reasons might lead you to consider such a decision? Do
you know anyone who has done this?
3. What factors other than wages would influence you to change jobs? To take a job? To
quit a job? Other than wages, what are the three most important aspects of any job you
would seek?
4. If not for wages, why work? If you were granted extra time in each day would you
choose to spend any of it at work?
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