Make your job a calling : how the psychology of vocation can change your life at work / Bryan Dik and Ryan Duffy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dik, Bryan J.

Contributor:

Duffy, Ryan D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Job satisfaction.

Job satisfaction--Religious aspects.

Work--Religious aspects.

Work.

Career development.

Job enrichment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

West Conshohocken, PA : Templeton Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Do you ever feel sick of your job? Do you ever envy those people who seem to positively love what they do? While those people head off to work with a sense of joy and purpose, for the rest of us trudging back to the office on Monday morning or to the factory for the graveyard shift or to the job site on a hundred-degree day can be an exercise in soul crushing desperation. "If only we could change jobs," we tell ourselves, "that would make it better." But we don't have the right education . . . or we don't have enough experience . . . or the economy isn't right . . . or we

Contents:

Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Calling in the Twenty-first Century; 1. Recovering Calling; 2. What Work Means, and the Difference It Makes; Part 2: Dimensions of Calling; 3. Listening; 4. Making Meaning; 5. Serving Others; Part 3: Discovering and Living a Calling; 6. Forging a Path; 7. Job Crafting; 8. Callings outside of Paid Work; Part 4: Boundary Conditions and Challenges of a Calling; 9. Perils and Pitfalls; 10. A Role for Calling in the Changing World of Work; Questions and Answers; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283906609

1283906600

9781599474205

1599474204

OCLC:

841560512