The World of Work: Essential Factors, Impact on Wellbeing, and Changes in Today's Working System

This essay discusses the concept of work, essential factors required for work, and its impact on individual wellbeing. It also includes the changes in today's working system and socio-economic factors linked with occupational classes.

The World of Work

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Work refers to putting effort which can allow to accomplish something which are desired to
achieve. It need for physical or mental effort which can be effective to accomplish something
(Wang et. al., (2020)). This is the one through which individual can lead to create an impact of
getting something done. It also allows to perform different things that can be effective and help
to perform and accomplish somethings. In this essay, there is discussion about the concept of
work along with its essential factors which are required for work (Cummins, (2018)). This also
describe how work can shape individual lives. There is also discussion about what happens
where there is no work which can affect individual wellbeing. This essay also includes the sign
and symptoms or impact that are related to wellbeing, socially, physically along with
psychologically (Hynie, (2018)). There is also discussion about urbanization along with
industrialization which can impact individual life positively or negatively. It also includes the life
of worker which is liked with Marx theory alienation. This also includes the information about
the changes in today’s working system or in work pattern. There is also discussion about the
socio-economic factors which can like to occupational classes- meritocracy and education theory
functionalism are discussed.
MAIN BODY
There is need to ensure about performing different task which should be done through
using physical or mental strength and have high impact on delivery of services to accomplish any
task. Everyone is engage in regular work to earn for the livelihood (Virokannas et. al., (2020)).
This influence them to work in productive way which can help to provide some earning for
spend live effectively. Work concept is effective where every individual use their physical or
mental strength to accomplish something which can be productive and are effective to provide
positive result.
Every individual need to work in some stage of life for earning to get the things which
are needed to live effectively. When any individual doesn’t work then they are not able to earn
money which is essential to get any object in today’s time (Hegde et. al., (2020)). This can also
create high negative impact on health. Because when there is no money there is very less change
of getting food to stop hunger. So, every individual to perform some task or work that can allow
to perform work that can be effective and allow to get better performance for positive result.

There are some of the essential factor which are required to work in positive way. There
are some of the factors like working hours, company culture, benefits offered, team, stability of
company, opportunities for growth, educational opportunities and many more. These are the
effective factor that can have impact within individual wellbeing (Tuzovic, (2018)). There are
different sign and symptoms or impact related to wellbeing, socially, physically or
psychologically. These are effective factor which help in performing work that can allow to
work. When there is no work there is can lead to create impact on taking different effect for
getting no response. In this world, there is need to create an impact that can allow to get better
impact on the delivery of performance for the higher productivity (Raekstad, (2018)).
There is different effect of work that affect socially which can be affect through creating
impact on society. In this, during performing any work in any organisation there is higher change
of establishing social relationship with colleagues. There is also build of social relationship with
society which can establish during any work performance. Every individual can get affect
socially that can be there due to getting respect and earning to live their life effectively. It also
impacts physically through performing task that needs physical strength either during labour or
during using of equipment or technology. To accomplish any work, there is need to perform
some physical activity which require energy that need to perform physical and perform the
activity. This can affect individual wellbeing through working physically and establishing
effective performance (Dhondt et. al., (2018)). Work also affect every individual psychologically
that can have impact on individual mental effect and can lead to change their behaviour either in
positive aspect or negative. There are many people who can get affected through performing any
work which should be delivered and have impact on individual behaviour and their wellbeing
psychologically.
Urbanization is highly effective and allow individual to shift from rural area to urban
area. This can be effective and can be done for getting standard quality of life within city. This is
mostly done to find any work that can be helpful in getting some earning which are more than
getting in their rural area (Eklund, (2018)). To increase or earn money, there are many people
who like to get work within urban area that can also help them to improve their quality of life
and their standard. This is effective and create huge impact on individual life that can lead to
create an impact on individual lifestyle and wellbeing. This can have positive and negative both

aspect where getting quality life and earning more is the positive aspect. Whereas, getting away
from family and relative is the negative aspect.
Industrialisation refers to the process which includes the economy transfer and lead to
perform work in order to manufacture any product. In this may include the manual labour which
can be replace by the mechanized mass production. This can be effective and allow to get better
impact on the delivery of services that have impact on individual life. This can allow to provide
some work to every individual due to requirement of labour which can be fulfil through hiring
individual to perform work for them. It has the positive aspect in where individual get
opportunity to work and industry get the labour force to process their business function and fulfil
the requirement of labour. There is a negative aspect that labour is not getting paid enough
according to their labour.
Life of worker is hard which is due to not having job security at their company in past in
which create huge risk of getting lost of job and not getting paid to spend life effectively. During
past time, it was difficult to move apart from one to another place where they needed to work
nearby places and totally depends on the mercy of company owner and get paid according to
owner mind (Packard, (2018)). Here, Karl Marx’s theory of alienation refers to estrangement of
people according to their human nature like getting society and social classes. In this, people are
the mechanic part and need to get in living as a part of social class. This can create relationship
within individual where it was in the past time where individual get social relationship with
owner during work and feel familiar with them. This also influence them to work effectively and
perform their best in service delivery. This can be influence through Karl Marx’s theory of
alienation where they form relationship and perform work and to own those goods and services.
Here, people are diverted through providing goal and achieving their objective during work for
the higher productivity.
For example- When anyone organisation is working to produce cloths which are done
through using different process where labour is needed. In this people work for it and perform
their work that can lead to create production of the final product. This reflect aht there is life
activity which is performed by another individual (Tickle, (2019)).
There is another example that when any individual is working as a nursing staff then
there is need to delivery their services to patient within healthcare premises. In this, another

individual is working to provide better health and treatment for patient which can lead to satisfy
the Karl Marx theory.
Now a day there is huge change in the working system which can be relate that in
previous time there was very less machinery whereas, in present time there are many of the
advance technology which are effective and easily can perform many task at the same time
without any effort (Kavitha et. al., (2019)). There are many work which can be done easily
through sitting at remote place. There is advance change in comparison to history of working and
in the present time. In this, there are many people from old generation can relate this, due to
having observed both time. Today’s working system has been changed which also affect the
working pattern like shift, part time job, paid work, unpaid work, voluntary work and many
more. These are some of the new working patter system that can be effective and allow to get
better response for achieving better.
Globalisation is one of the main factor which lead to create change in work. Due to
globalisation, there are many countries who get highly effected and take themselves to get
advanced with utilising current technology and using the benefits of globalisation.
There are many law and policy which were in the history and can show review of that
time which may include UK labour law, Act of apprentices 1563, employers and Workmen Act
1875 and many more (Khan et. al., (2020)). In this, there were high impact of work and mostly
focus on the ensuring about the minimum charter of employment rights. Whereas, in present
time, there is change in those act and provides some rights and restriction to employees and
employers which can help to protect the rights of every individual either employees or
employers.
There are some socio-economic factors which may include age, gender, educational level,
income level. These are the factors which are linked with occupational classes that can lead to
create an impact on occupational classes. This can be effective and allow to get better and
effective response according to age, gender, income class. Here, work can provide according to
individual potential and their level of education. For example- when some is hiving higher
education then, individual should work according to merit within any organisation. Whereas,
uneducated people get the work of labour or some physical work within that organisation. This
stimulate the working of individual class according to socio-economic factor that can provided
according to meritocracy (Bhattacharjee, (2020)). There is a functionalist theory which is

effective and help individual to focus on their education that how education can have served to
fulfil need of society through development of skills.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it can conclude that work is one of the essential part of
individual life which cannot be ignored and every individual need to perform some work to live
life effectively. In this, it can be related to accomplish anything that required some effort either
physical or mental. There is need to work that is now one of the important part of individual to
earn money that can spend to get something. In this essay, there is discussion about concept of
work which can include essential factors that are required for work and shape individual life.
There is also discussion about the how work or no work can affect individual wellbeing socially,
psychologically or physically. There is also discussion about urbanisation and industrialization
which can affect individual life either in positive or negative way. There is some description
about the life of workers in history and linked with Marx theory Alienation along with example
to support it. This essay also consists changes in today’s working system which has affected due
to globalisation. There is also discussion about the socio-economic factors which are linked with
occupational classes like meritocracy and includes the education theory lie functionalism.

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