[ Le Sens du Travail dans un contexte Entropique ]
Volume 26, Issue 1, April 2019, Pages 218–229
NYOCK ILOUGA Samuel1 and Moussa - Mouloungui Aude Carine2
1 Chargé de Cours, Université de Yaoundé 1, BP : 13084 Douala, Cameroon
2 Département de Psychologie, Université Omar Bongo, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, BP 7641, Libreville, Gabon
Original language: French
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The international literature review on the meaning of work reveals that, there is still an epistemological confusion between the meaning and coherence constructs. To date, no research has empirically proven that the meaning of work, which emerges from the perception of the work, its purpose and its contribution to the meaning of existence, has an autonomous and a distinctive character not only with respect to the perceived and effective coherence existing between the worker and the working environment, but also vis-à-vis other factors which view the meaning as a subset of more important constructs like psychological empowerment. To address this gap, this research aims at continuing the empirical validation on the inventory of the meaning of work while examining not only its factorial structure, but also and especially the conceptual and empirical differences between the meaning and coherence. Confirmatory factor analyzes were carried out on 623 hospital staff in Cameroon, showing that the two-dimensional structure of the meaning inventory presents better statistical indices of adequacy on the real data and accounts for 71.486% of the explained variance. Correlational analyzes that were carried out on 359 samples validated the distinctive and autonomous character of meaning with respect to coherence (r≈-32).
Author Keywords: Social entropy, Person-environment fit, Psychology empowerment, Meaning of work, Meaning of work inventory, Report to work.
Volume 26, Issue 1, April 2019, Pages 218–229
NYOCK ILOUGA Samuel1 and Moussa - Mouloungui Aude Carine2
1 Chargé de Cours, Université de Yaoundé 1, BP : 13084 Douala, Cameroon
2 Département de Psychologie, Université Omar Bongo, Faculté des Lettres et des Sciences Humaines, BP 7641, Libreville, Gabon
Original language: French
Copyright © 2019 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The international literature review on the meaning of work reveals that, there is still an epistemological confusion between the meaning and coherence constructs. To date, no research has empirically proven that the meaning of work, which emerges from the perception of the work, its purpose and its contribution to the meaning of existence, has an autonomous and a distinctive character not only with respect to the perceived and effective coherence existing between the worker and the working environment, but also vis-à-vis other factors which view the meaning as a subset of more important constructs like psychological empowerment. To address this gap, this research aims at continuing the empirical validation on the inventory of the meaning of work while examining not only its factorial structure, but also and especially the conceptual and empirical differences between the meaning and coherence. Confirmatory factor analyzes were carried out on 623 hospital staff in Cameroon, showing that the two-dimensional structure of the meaning inventory presents better statistical indices of adequacy on the real data and accounts for 71.486% of the explained variance. Correlational analyzes that were carried out on 359 samples validated the distinctive and autonomous character of meaning with respect to coherence (r≈-32).
Author Keywords: Social entropy, Person-environment fit, Psychology empowerment, Meaning of work, Meaning of work inventory, Report to work.
Abstract: (french)
L’analyse de la littérature internationale sur le sens du travail révèle qu’une confusion épistémologique persiste entre les construits de sens et de cohérence. Toutefois, aucune recherche n’a à ce jour démontré de façon empirique qu’il est valide de considérer que le sens du travail, qui émerge de la compréhension du travail, de sa finalité ainsi que de sa contribution au sens de la vie, présente un caractère autonome et distinctif non seulement par rapport la cohérence perçue et réelle entre le travailleur et son environnement de travail, mais aussi vis-à-vis d’autres phénomènes considérant le sens comme un sous-ensemble de construit plus important comme l’habilitation psychologique. Pour combler cette lacune, la présente recherche vise à poursuivre la validation empirique de l’inventaire du sens du travail tout en examinant non seulement sa structure factorielle, mais aussi et surtout les différences conceptuelles et empiriques entre le sens et la cohérence. Des analyses factorielles confirmatoires ont été effectuées sur 623 personnels hospitaliers du Cameroun démontrent que la structure en deux dimensions de l’inventaire du sens présente de meilleurs indices statistiques d’adéquation aux données réelles et totalisent 71,486% de la variance expliquée. Les analyses corrélationnelles effectuées sur 359 sujets ont permis de valider le caractère distinctif et autonome du sens par rapport à la cohérence (r≈-32).
Author Keywords: Entropie sociale, Cohérence personne-environnement, Habilitation psychologique, Inventaire du sens du travail, Rapport au travail.
How to Cite this Article
NYOCK ILOUGA Samuel and Moussa - Mouloungui Aude Carine, “The Meaning of Work in an Entropic context,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 218–229, April 2019.
