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In Organizational Behaviour and COMM 101 this week, both classes were presented with a particular proposal in which we were forced to either take or leave – the proposal being whether or not to take a stable, well-paid job with excellent perks such as a month paid vacation and health care but no promotions for 10 years, or to refuse the offer and find work else where.

To many, the answer appeared painfully obvious. Of course! Take the job that pays 84,000 dollars a year! Yet, it was something many also chose to ponder further. If, indeed, you accepted a job that only gave you extrinsic motivation, would you be able to sit, stagnant until a promotion arose? And even if you were to only take the job momentarily, would you be able to leave it just as easily?

An unchallenging job would not only prove worthless to the employee, but it would also encourage a sense of complacency. There would be no room for personal growth, and the intrinsic factors that make professions so interesting would not exist. This sort of environment could only give way to a negative resentment towards the job.

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