White-Collar Career Advancement When Working From Home

2021 ◽  
pp. 135-160
Author(s):  
Navya Kumar ◽  
Swati Alok
Keyword(s):  
Career Advancement ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
New Model ◽  
Psychological Need ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
The World ◽  
Job Demands And Resources

Across the world, COVID-19 has driven millions of white-collar employees to work from home (WFH). Anticipated business benefits of WFH will likely compel employers to extend the work practice for several employees post-pandemic. WFH, by affecting job task execution, as well as opportunities to enhance and demonstrate capabilities, will hold implications for employee career advancement. In this context, a new model for career advancement is proposed, the competence career advancement model, comprising three cyclical stages (achieving, improving, and proving competence) based on the self-determination theory's psychological need for competence. The chapter covers job demands and resources that influence each stage of career advancement, as well as how these demands and resources are themselves affected under WFH conditions. Also discussed are the consequences of satisfaction/frustration through the stages of career advancement for worker well-being and work attitudes/outcomes. Human resource and technology practices to enable employee career advancement under WFH are suggested as well.

scholarly journals Understanding Burnout in Indian Housewives Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charvi Pareek ◽  
Nandani Agarwal ◽  
Yash Jain
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

COVID-19 Pandemic has brought the world underwaters. All over the world, people were affected. The focus during this period was mostly on patients and frontline workers, with some attention also towards working adults. One cohort that has not gained much light during this pandemic is of housewives. Housewives had to manage household chores along with managing family relations – especially in India, where societal expectations lie on the female to provide family members with care and manage the household. Dealing with uncertainty, decreased availability of personal space, increased presence of and interaction with people in the household due to work from home scenarios, shifting to the online world and adapting to the change, economic disturbances, absence of domestic help, managing parental responsibility, increased stress about one’s own and family members’ health and lack of social interaction have contributed to their inconvenience. Existing evidence supports that housewives have been experiencing burnout in their homes. This qualitative study was conducted to see how the added pressure of COVID – 19 and social isolation has affected housewives mentally, leading to burnout. This narrative study includes participants of Indian origin, between the ages of 34 to 50 years. Participants were shortlisted on the basis of their scores obtained on the COVID-19 Burnout Scale, designed by Murat Yıldırım and Fatma Solmaz. The themes generated through this research study are related to understanding the impact of burnout on the mental health of housewives along the areas of physical health, financial well-being, digitization, uncertainty regarding COVID-19, parental responsibilities, social & emotional health, relationship management, and coping mechanisms. The findings of this study suggest that the mental health of housewives has significantly worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic due to constant exposure to certain stressors.

scholarly journals Degrowth for transformational alternatives as radical social work practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-433
Author(s):  
Meredith C.F. Powers ◽  
Komalsingh Rambaree ◽  
Jef Peeters
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Work Practice ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Work Practice ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Ecological Justice ◽  
The World

Historically, and in modern times, social workers have been culpable in perpetuating the very systems of oppression that we seek to eliminate. This happens as we are part of cultures and economies that operate out of the growth ideology. Acting in accordance with the growth ideology does not lead to the outcomes that we strive for as professional social workers. Rather, the growth ideology results in growing social inequalities and increasing ecological injustices around the world. Social work can, instead, embrace an ecosocial lens and promote degrowth approaches for transformational alternatives. Rather than reinforcing the existing systems of injustice and oppression, radical social work can take an activist role and bring about urgent and radical changes to promote ecological justice through social and ecological well-being. Examples from radical social work in local and international communities demonstrate the possibility of degrowth for transformational alternatives as radical social work practice.

scholarly journals Fulfilling the self through food in wellness blogs: Governing the healthy subject

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110557
Author(s):  
Kaisa Tiusanen
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Subject ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Personal Journey ◽  
Technologies Of The Self ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Ideal

In the world of wellness, food and eating are fundamentally important to one’s subjectivity: the self in this sphere is created and maintained through food consumption along a plant-based, ‘wholesome’ and healthy personal journey to well-being. This article focuses on the analysis of wellness food blogs run by women, aiming to map out the technologies of the self through which the ‘ideal wellness subject’ is created. The analysis examines technologies of subjectivity as they aspire towards (1) balance, (2) healing and (3) narrativization of the self. The article suggests that the subjectivities related to wellness culture draw from postfeminist and healthist ideologies and are based on a neoliberal discourse of individuality and self-control. The sociocultural indifference of wellness culture and its prerogative to police the self through culturally hegemonic pursuits based on (the right kind of) consumption makes the language of wellness a prominent neoliberal discourse.

scholarly journals Failure to Share Reality and its Consequences for Self-Concept Clarity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alysson Light ◽  
Matthew Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Social Motives ◽  
Shared Reality ◽  
Network Diversity ◽  
The World

Shared Reality Theory argues that people are motivated to perceive the world in similar ways to people around them to fulfill epistemic and relational motives. However, most research on shared reality has focused on dyads. Taking a broader perspective, disagreement with members of one’s social networks may threaten shared reality, with downstream consequences for confidence in core cognitive structures, including the self-concept. In four studies, we manipulated (Study 1) and measured (Studies 2-4) perceived disagreement within an individual’s social network. Results revealed that, especially when epistemic and social motives were high, disagreeing with or perceiving disagreement in one’s social network was associated with lower self-concept clarity, which mediated negative consequences for well-being. Comparing network disagreement to network diversity, we found that disagreement better explained effects on self- concept clarity. These results suggest that one’s broader social network can impact attempts to share reality, with consequences for the self and well-being.

scholarly journals Understanding Burnout in Indian Housewives Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charvi Pareek ◽  
Nandani Agarwal ◽  
Yash Jain
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Family Relations ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Personal Space ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Frontline Workers ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

COVID-19 Pandemic has brought the world underwaters. All over the world, people were affected. The focus during this period was mostly on patients and frontline workers, with some attention also towards working adults. One cohort that has not gained much light during this pandemic is of housewives. Housewives had to manage household chores along with managing family relations – especially in India, where societal expectations lie on the female to provide family members with care and manage the household. Dealing with uncertainty, decreased availability of personal space, increased presence of and interaction with people in the household due to work from home scenarios, shifting to the online world and adapting to the change, economic disturbances, absence of domestic help, managing parental responsibility, increased stress about one’s own and family members’ health and lack of social interaction have contributed to their inconvenience. Existing evidence supports that housewives have been experiencing burnout in their homes. This qualitative study was conducted to see how the added pressure of COVID – 19 and social isolation has affected housewives mentally, leading to burnout. This narrative study includes participants of Indian origin, between the ages of 34 to 50 years. Participants were shortlisted on the basis of their scores obtained on the COVID-19 Burnout Scale, designed by Murat Yıldırım and Fatma Solmaz. The themes generated through this research study are related to understanding the impact of burnout on the mental health of housewives along the areas of physical health, financial well-being, digitization, uncertainty regarding COVID-19, parental responsibilities, social & emotional health, relationship management, and coping mechanisms. The findings of this study suggest that the mental health of housewives has significantly worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic due to constant exposure to certain stressors.

From Self to No-Self to All-Self

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Culliney ◽  
David Jones
Keyword(s):  
Free Will ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Peak Performance ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
The World ◽  
Constructive Engagement ◽  
Family Harmony

Chapter 9 explores how individuals working to attain peak performance are at their best when intimately embedded and engaged in their chosen sector of the world, moving with and helping to shape its creative turbulence. Primarily focusing on the Buddhist notion of an enlightened self, we propose the sage ideally represents the fractal self with Confucian and Daoist philosophies complementing Buddhist thinkers in their conscious struggle against problems arising in selves devoted to an integrity way of being. The Buddhist self becomes the paradigmatic model for a self of intimacy. In intimacy, knowledge resides at the interface of self and world and free-will manifests in our evolved nature with our option to choose constructive engagement with our world—from family harmony to international well-being and biospheric sustainability. This chapter takes readers into discussions that may seem paradoxical, as in the concept of no-self and the sources of suffering, barriers to approaching nirvana. The Western notion of an individuated human soul dissolves into the unbounded vision of the self of intimacy that Buddhists believe is realized in traveling the “Eightfold Path.” Bash?’s poetry evokes the Path and opens vistas of compassion and enlightenment in the quest of a fractal self.

THE REFLECTION OF OWN ABSENCE IN THE WORLD BY LYRICAL SUBJECTS OF LATE WORKS BY EGOR LETOV

2020 ◽  
pp. 92-101
Author(s):  
Zinaida G. Stankovich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Deceased Person ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
World Vision ◽  
The World ◽  
Lyrical Subject ◽  
Real Person ◽  
Late Works ◽  
Centripetal Movement

t. The article is dedicated to the late works of Yegor Letov and explores the lyrical subject’s perception of the world in which he himself and people like him will no longer exist. The topic touches on the theme of death which is clearly manifesting itself in all works of the rock poet. It reveals that Letov’s lyrical subject fixes his absence in the world turning to images of nature that remain unchanged, to elements of people’s everyday life that persist without him and to the space of artistic work the contemporary to the poet. In parallel there is the self-reflection of Letov’s lyrical subject as a people’s rock poet who values living life and does not aim for pecuniary well-being. The lyrical subject of Letov when thinking about the life that will continue after the passing of his generation realizes that the world will turn upside down and become uncomfortable and unacceptable for him. The world of a deceased person will separate from the big world and begin a centripetal movement while the reverse of return will no longer be possible. An important motive is the distortion of memory about a real person, which will inevitably occur after an individual leaves the general world. Human himself will not be able to influence his posthumous fate. However shortly before his death Letov comes to a rather optimistic conclusion that he managed to transmit to living humans an undistorted healthy element of his world vision.

scholarly journals Defence versus Development: A Theory of Defensive and Expansive Self-Regulation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Rojas Hernández
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Psychological States ◽  
Regulation Theory ◽  
The World

This article presents a macro theory of self-regulation: defensive and expansive self-regulation theory (DERT). It rests on two fundamental assumptions. First, it assumes the coexistence of two competing psychological systems: a defensive system motivated by the need for physical and psychological security, whose function is to protect the organism from harm to life and self, and an expansive system motivated by the needs for competence, relatedness and autonomy, whose function is the development of knowledge, skills, and social support. Second, DERT assumes a threefold distinction regarding consciousness, with psychological processes qualifying as either nonconscious, conscious or metaconscious. Based on the previous assumptions, the theory posits the coexistence of two self-regulatory modes: a defensive regulation, consisting of self-protective responses aimed at avoiding, escaping or fighting survival threats and self-threats, and an expansive regulation, consisting of non-defensive metaconsciousness of one’s psychological states and processes. Defensive regulation is assumed to be generally adaptive in the context of survival threats but not in that of self-threats. What is called for in the context of self-threats is expansive regulation, namely non-defensive metaconsciousness of the identifications, evaluations and interpretations of self, others and the world that cause the self-threats in the first place. The theory predicts that defensive and expansive regulation of self-threats cause psychological distress and well-being, and negative and positive interpersonal relationships, respectively.

Secularism and the Science of Well-Being

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Yaden ◽  
Jonathan Iwry ◽  
Emily Esfahani Smith ◽  
James O. Pawelski
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The World ◽  
Secular Society ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter draws from emerging research areas in positive psychology, the study of well-being, to consider evidence-based recommendations helping to fill some of the psychological and existential gaps in secular society. It discusses the development of positive psychology and its shift toward a meaning-oriented conception of human well-being, as well as scientific findings about meaning and its role in a flourishing life. Further, it argues for the importance of the humanities, alongside the methods of science, in exploring subjective and personal aspects of meaning. The chapter also discusses the study of self-transcendent experiences and how they can provide profound joy and meaning while influencing the relationship between the self and the world at large.

scholarly journals On Being Optimizers: Are We Health Promotion Professionals Living up to Our Potential?

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (8) ◽  
pp. 1657-1660
Author(s):  
Paul E. Terry
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Relativism ◽  
Optimal Experience ◽  
Personal Goals ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness ◽  
New Model ◽  
The World

How do we judge whether our profession is meeting its potential when, according to time honored definitions of health promotion, we consider health to be a byproduct of culture and we deem some aspects of culture to be prerequisites to health? If our profession falls short, is it because we are not doing enough to change the world? This editorial previews a new model for health promotion called “collective well-being.” Collective well-being is less about how I cope with society to reach my potential and more about how we cocreate a society that enables us all to thrive. Some argue that cultural relativism means that we should not stand in judgment of cultures but can we do this without diminishing the prime role of culture in the pursuit of happiness or our innate desire to achieve optimal experience? A professional challenge for the health promotion field is to forge routes to an optimal life where personal goals and societal aspirations are one and the same.

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