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The meaning of work in Malaŵi

✍ Scribed by Stuart C. Carr; Malcolm MacLachlan; Michael Kachedwa; Macdonald Kanyangale

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
156 KB
Volume
9
Category
Article
ISSN
0954-1748

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✦ Synopsis

Human resources are increasingly seen as vital to developing nations, but studies of work motivation remain focused on manager elites rather than the general workforce, and on motivation at' particular workplaces rather than the wider meaning of' work in societies at large. In an adaptation of Morse and Weiss's classic study on the meaning of work, one hundred Malaw à ian workers from a variety of occupations were asked whether they would continue to work even if they were given enough money to retire comfortably. Sixty-four per cent said that they would continue to stay at work, predominantly for reasons of security, while the wider meaning of work might entail the narrative typology of owning one's own business. The Western notion of need hierarchy may be irrelevant to Malaw à ian workers, many of whom can never be certain of basic security, while the common sense of purpose in owning a small business gives credence to the policy of bottom up, community-driven economic reform.

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