Organizational Behavior
Organizational Behavior
OER 2019 Edition
ISBN: 9781947172715
Author: OpenStax
Publisher: OpenStax College
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Define work.

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Summary Introduction

To determine:

The concept of work.

Introduction:

Work is defined as some activity that produces something valuable for an organization,individual, teams, and personal benefit.

Explanation of Solution

Work is defined as the activities involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a valuable result. Every person in society defines work in their own way.

In a technical sense, the meaning of work is getting employment, exchange of services for money but it does not define why work is necessary. On the contrary, it cannot say that the work is always interesting and satisfying, sometimes work are stressful and dull too. Even so, the task performed do have benefits to society at large.

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