Analysing Worklife

David Pendleton (), Peter Derbyshire () and Chloe Hodgkinson ()
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David Pendleton: Henley Centre for Leadership
Chloe Hodgkinson: Edgecumbe Consulting Group Ltd

Chapter 7 in Work-Life Matters, 2021, pp 89-103 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In order to reshape our work, we must first analyse it. Each job is made up of ‘elements’, some of which are formally stated in a job description and some are subjectively defined. To know which elements of our work contribute positively to our energy and which drain it, the elements need to be weighted subjectively since the impact of each element is entirely personal. Two people doing supposedly identical jobs can experience its elements differently. We describe how to identify and weight each component of each job and how to aggregate these judgements into an overall job evaluation using the examples of a supermarket manager, a university lecturer and a general medical practitioner. We show how these evaluations can be either retrospective or prospective and how they may be deployed to identify and propose changes to the work that would suit the employee better while still achieving the outcomes required by the employer.

Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77768-5_7

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