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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822673103321

Autore

Dik Bryan J

Titolo

Make your job a calling : how the psychology of vocation can change your life at work / / Bryan Dik and Ryan Duffy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

West Conshohocken, PA, : Templeton Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-90660-0

1-59947-420-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Classificazione

BUS012000BUS046000SEL027000SEL021000

Altri autori (Persone)

DuffyRyan D

Disciplina

650.101/9

Soggetti

Job satisfaction

Job satisfaction - Religious aspects

Work - Religious aspects

Career development

Job enrichment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Calling in the Twenty-first Century; 1. Recovering Calling; 2. What Work Means, and the Difference It Makes; Part 2: Dimensions of Calling; 3. Listening; 4. Making Meaning; 5. Serving Others; Part 3: Discovering and Living a Calling; 6. Forging a Path; 7. Job Crafting; 8. Callings outside of Paid Work; Part 4: Boundary Conditions and Challenges of a Calling; 9. Perils and Pitfalls; 10. A Role for Calling in the Changing World of Work; Questions and Answers; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Do you ever feel sick of your job? Do you ever envy those people who seem to positively love what they do? While those people head off to work with a sense of joy and purpose, for the rest of us trudging back to the office on Monday morning or to the factory for the graveyard shift or to the job site on a hundred-degree day can be an exercise in soul crushing desperation. "If only we could change jobs," we tell ourselves, "that would make it better." But we don't have the right education . . . or we don't have enough experience . . . or the economy isn't right . . . or we