SMU business capstone final project presentation on Fulfilment in Work

1. in
WORK
FULFILMENT
Clara Koh. Hoe Si Wei.
Mabel Heng. Ryann Chong.

2. in
FULFILMENT
NPO

3. 1. Introduction
2. Motivators in NPO
3. Impact of Work Fulfilment on Self
4. Ideal self
5. Self Fulfilment
6. Work Fulfilment
7. Work Fulfilment & Meaning of Life
8. Conclusion

4. INTRODUCTION

5. WHY DO WE WORK?

7. JOB FULFILMENT IN ORGANISATIONS

8. Interview with
Manager of Advocacy & Partnerships
AVIN TAN

9. MOTIVATORS IN NPOS

10. Purpose
Job structure
Organisational fit

11. Self-determination theory
Job characteristic vs Job purpose
Work content vs Organisational mission
Prosocial motivation
-Deci & Ryan, 1985
-Devaro & Brookshire, 2007
-Grant, 2008
Purpose

12. Desire to help others
Links to the LGBT community
Accomplishment
“More than just a job”
Purpose

13. Job structure
Job crafting. Flat structure. Flexibility.

14. Job structure
Start up
Flexibility to determine job scope

15. Organisational fit
COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANISATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS
(Kristof-Brown, Zimmerman & Johnson, 2005)

16. ALIGNMENT WITH COMPANY
SAME VALUES AND GOALS
Organisational fit

17. IMPACT OF WORK FULFILMENT ON
Self Fulfilment

18. IDEAL SELF SELF FULFILMENT

19. IDEAL SELF
BOYATZIS AND AKRIVOU (2006)

20. IDEAL SELF
IMAGE OF A
DESIRED FUTURE
Dreams
Aspirations
Fantasies

21. Emotionally fuelled by
Expression of self-efficacy
Hope as emotional and experienced state
Determines perceptions of possibilities
Groopman (2004)
Leaf (2002); Skinneer (1996)
IDEAL SELF

22. IDEAL SELF
ONE’S CORE
IDENTITY

23. GEWIRTH (1998)
SELF FULFILMENT

24. SELF FULFILMENT
ASPIRATION AND
CAPACITY FULFILMENT
Desired by individuals though the
means toward attaining it may not
themselves be desired
Capacity fulfilment - How can I
make the best of myself?
Aspiration fulfilment - What
satisfy my deepest desires?

25. SELF FULFILMENT
MARKED BY CHOICES

26. MAXIMALIST VALUE
Attainment of strongest and
deepest desires
Carrying to fruition the
desires
One’s worthiest capacities
Bringing out the best in
oneself to represent
successful culmination of
one’s aspiration

27. IDEAL SELFWORK +

28. THE OF LIFE?meaning
WORK FULFILMENT AND

29. The pursuit of purpose
provides life with
meaning
Aristotle, 2000; Dalai Lama & Cutler, 1998

30. INTERNAL EXTERNAL
GOAL

31. EXTERNAL
Transcendence
refers to connecting the ego to an entity greater
than self or beyond the material world

32. EXTERNAL
Transcendence
highlights the experience of self abnegation which
leads to work fulfilment
mployees working in a NPO may
experience transcendence from the
altruistic nature of the work that
they do, as they gain insightful
perspectives on having a larger
purpose in life.

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CONCLUSION

34. Varies from individual to
individual

35. Perspectives changes
over different stages of
life

36. “I DIDN’T KNOW WHAT I WANTED TO
DO, OR WHAT MY NEXT STEP WAS. SO,
I JOINED A NPO HOPING TO FIND SOME
ANSWERS.”
Avin Tan

37. Psychological Model of the Meaning of Life

38. THANKYOU