Unity of life in the workplace

This article explains three main points: social relationship, balancing work and private life and purpose of working. In this article, Dr. Michael Naughton says ‘a person should not refer to work and leisure as separate entities, but as integrated realities that are directed towards the uplift of people’s loves, especially of the underprivileged’. This allows the reducing of stress in the employees’ lives. By building social relationships with their fellow workers, supervisors, subordinates and customers, trust, cooperation, group work, communication and many problems can be resolved with relatively ease. This, indirectly helps to build a healthy organizational culture, and thus, improving the company as a whole. To Dr. Naughton, ‘purpose’ was the key to bringing everyone together, thus providing a better understanding of the tasks those groups were to complete. In relation to the textbook theories learnt under the chapter titled: Processes of emotion in the workplace, this article demonstrates a good example to the sub theory: Emotion as part of Workplace Relationships. This theory mentions that most organizational emotions arise from emotions that develop from relationships between workers in the workplace. With this article, it helps me in relating to the topic/question chosen for my assignment three essay, where it is about communication and leadership in an organization. This is because this article explains the importance of communication in the workplace among peers.

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Alvendia-Q, R 2011, Unity of life in the workplace, BusinessWorld online.com, online, viewed 8 September 2011, from http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Opinion&title=Unity-of-life-in-the-workplace&id=37505