[Ritchie & Associates records] (1 of 3)
data provider: AtoM
is part of: Association of University and College Employees (AUCE) fonds
is part of: Advocacy and Bargaining
creator: Association of University and College Employees
issued: 2019-07-05
created: 1985
description: File contains clippings, correspondence, bulletins, and other records dated October 25, 1985 to November 21, 1985. Topics discussed include opposition to Ritchie and Associates (R & A) efficiency testing at UBC, the work-to-rule campaign, staffing and budget cuts, summaries of R & A final reports, legal information and background on R & A, grievances, an all campus unions meeting on contract negotiations and R & A, transcripts of CUE interviews with Vancouver Co-op Radio and the CBC on the topic of R & A, issues with campus mail delivery, and a memo on how librarians and library staff have been affected by R & A.
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note: Many psychologists have conducted research on the determina- nts of happiness, studying such factors as money, heal th, sex, community, love, marriage and work . It has been found that job satisfaction was the factor most consistently related to happiness. Anyone who has been unemployed for any length of time is aware of the feelings of despair that can occur. Work can be an arena in which we are given the opportunity to demonstrate our talents, our knowledge, our creativity . People perform their jobs for a variety of reasons, many of them pragmatic, but what finally elevates a tedious or even harmful daily routine to an enriching way of life is the degree to which we are allowed to express our natural talents. Productivity, therefore, should not be inexorably linked with the process of making profits at any cost, but rather with the very human need to be useful and worthwhile, and joined to this is the also very human need to be appreciated and recognized as such . The ideal relationship between employer and employee might be one of symbiosis : mutual productivity and mutual recognition. And the work can range from mopping a floor to directing the course of an entire department. Maslow's theory of the hierarchy of needs supports this; he claims that psychological health, in fact, depends upon how high up the ladder of needs one climbs . Once the basic physiological, safety and love needs are met, it becomes necessary to reach for those satisfactions that come from what Maslow terms "metaneeds" - achievement, self-esteem, dignity, and finally meaning and self-actualization. He believed that, among other things , the pursuit of these metaneeds often produces, as a side effect, positive consequences for society as a whole. Given all of this, reading the Ritchie Report by Donald Gutstein reveals some very unpleasant threats to ~ ~-..t:t e r our sources of job satisfa c tion, our psycholog i cal health, and both our and the University's productivity . It is difficult t…
has type: Clippings
has type: Record-keeping works
has type: Transcriptions
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0378045
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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source: University of British Columbia Library Rare Books and Special Collections
subject: Labor unions--Canada (AUCE)
subject: Labor unions--Officials and employees (AUCE)
subject: Labor unions--Organizing (AUCE)
type: Text