Personal Growth and Social Interactions

Dr. Aurora Corpuz Mendoza was the speaker for this lecture. She came from the department of Psychology (Yey!) specializing on Industrial organization.

On her study, she found out that work values on generations changes. There is time lag of 30-60 years before shift in values occurs. Therefore, there is a slow and steady change in the character of the society.

There are also different dimensions of work values according to Buchholz shown in the lecture. These dimension of work differs from one another in the sense of measuring success of one's individual in a particular work; these are the ff:

1. The Protestant Work Ethic which says that success is directly related to effort measured by accumulated wealth.

2. Organizational Belief System which a very Japanese belief; success is not related to effort and accomplishment, rather, success is directly linked to one's ability to conform and adapt to the norms of the company.

3. Humanistic. Well, the title says it all. Success is measured in terms of human growth and development on the job rather than work output.

4. Marxist related tells us that work is basic to human fulfillment since through this, people create their world and identity.

5. Leisure Ethic tells us really a different story since in this dimension, work has no meaning in itself and will only become meaningful in how it provides leisure to the successful persons.


Today, work values tend to shy away form work ethics to humanistic value. Likewise, religion, marital status and employment poses great impact to an individual compared in the past. Much also of breach of contract happens. What contract? The Psychological Contract between the employee and the employer. This contract is the expectation of the employer of the employee and vice versa. In pursuing a job, the no. 1 in the last in today's generation is the challenge. Well, in this, I beg to disagree. Is the reason of people opting to work in a call center is that they find challenge answering phone calls? I don't think so.


Difference of career from Job. I never realized how different were these two from each other until I attended this lecture. Career is dynamic; continuous incremental development. If one pursues a career in a particular field, he/she plans to be an expert in his/her chosen field and an ascent in hierarchy occurs. On the other hand, job is static period.

In selecting a job, often the HR people uses the Person occupation fit. But today, what seen as a more suitable process is the process approach - more on the type of organization than the type of occupation.

Satisfy vs optimize

"Look for best choices than satisfactory choices"

"The irony/paradoxes about it is that we want to focus on personal growth but we then chooses job without it".

What then applies to me for me?

I think I believe in the combination of the humanistic value, leisure ethic, Marxist related and protestant work ethic. In the future, I want a job where I will be able to create a conducive world for my personal growth and fulfillment and have a time for rest and relaxation.

That's why I want to become a lawyer/ diplomat/ ambassador.






I don't want to end up working in a call center.