Assignment || Human Resource Management

Running head: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Human resource Management
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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Do you agree with Carton’s statement that “the meaningfulness of work...is more
important than any other occupational feature?”
Yes it is quite definitive that meaningfulness at work is more important than any
other occupational feature. Work is a social activity and it occupies the central place in the
lives of the people. The work in a person’s life is considered to be a building block which
helps a man to construct his form. Work can also be said to be an important element as it acts
as a source of civilization which helps in the proper unification of the religion, science, art,
technology, social cultures, economy and language (core.ac.uk 2020). A work can help a
person to mark his destiny in the globe. Work is also capable of providing a permanent
identity to the individuals. Such a capability helps a person to be easily recognized by the
others around him. The industrial revolution had changed the relationship in between work
and man permanently changes the concept of work (core.ac.uk 2020). In the new context the
people were unable to alienate their work life from that of their own personal life. The major
factor behind work has turned out to be the need for money. The need for money has
outclassed all the other needs that helps in the professional development of a person
(core.ac.uk 2020). Thus in other words money turned out to be the meaning and purpose of
work for a person.
Thus work which forms an important part of the modern life has thus alienated men
from his personal space after the industrial revolution. However, the change in times and the
development of the social and political scenarios across the globe resulted in an evolutionary
change which turned man into an economic human being where men could relate political,
social, cultural, religious and economic beings in their work (core.ac.uk 2020). The
development of these mentality was an important milestone in the development of
meaningfulness of work to the modern day human beings. Thus the contemporary
descriptions of work appears to be an activity that has a certain goal which describes the