Psychologists Theo Wehner and Stefan T. Güntert from ETH Zurich recommend against the rampant job frustration: more voluntary-charitable activity!
From: Brain & Mind, July-August 2010
Many people are dissatisfied with their jobs, according to surveys. They object in particular that they lack the social recognition and career conveys no sense, says the work of psychologists and Theo Wehner Stefan T. Güntert in the magazine Gehirn & Geist (Issue 7-8/2010).
Conversely, those who volunteer community service, the two researchers, who often report a strong sense of activity and identify more with it. Social recognition is less important. The importance of sense of agency comes in two international studies from 2009 to express. The Kelly Global Workforce Index, about 34 countries in total 100 000 people to the "value of their work," interviewed. The participants were asked include whether they would be prepared for a challenging and meaningful task status in the company give up and even pay cuts to be accepted. In Germany and Switzerland are more than one in two said yes, in China as 63 percent of the respondents!
The same image was found in a sample of 1003 senior managers: in Germany were two of three executives ready for more meaningful and challenging activities to waive income, and in Switzerland a handsome 84 percent. Search for meaning is thus a powerful driving force - it is only in work rarely crowned with success.
volunteer community service separates the activities of a living. A natural extension of this principle offers the concept of unconditional Basic income, so Wehner and Güntert her plea in the brain and mind. After that all citizens of a community should be paid so much money on a regular basis that every individual could live on just.
Such a space would create for many activities: paid work, voluntary work, raising children and keeping the budget would equal footing with each other, many people could focus on their areas of interest. A basic income thus creates opportunities - whether they would availed could, of course, no one predicted.
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