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Exploring the Meaning of Thriving at Work through the Hermeneutic Analysis of Wings of Fire


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1 Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Department of Psychology University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
     

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Thriving at work is a joint experience of vitality and learning. Vitality means feeling of energy during work while learning means acquiring new knowledge and skills at work. Dr. A.P. J. Abdul Kalam's Wings of fire has been chosen because he is considered one of the most thrived personalities of India. Hermeneutics was applied as a qualitative method to analyse the text. Factors which promote thriving has been explored in this paper are knowledge about the work, positive interpersonal relationship, focus on the task at hand, exploration and creativity, positive attitude towards work information sharing with supervisory support. These factors confirms the meaning of thriving at work explained by socially embedded model of thriving. This paper lacks empirical evidences and further empirical researches are needed to validate the result of present study.

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Thriving, Hermeneutics, Wings of Fire, Exploration, and Creativity.
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Authors

Anupam Kumar Yadav
Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Neena Kohli
Department of Psychology, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Shreshtha Yadav
Department of Psychology University of Allahabad, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract


Thriving at work is a joint experience of vitality and learning. Vitality means feeling of energy during work while learning means acquiring new knowledge and skills at work. Dr. A.P. J. Abdul Kalam's Wings of fire has been chosen because he is considered one of the most thrived personalities of India. Hermeneutics was applied as a qualitative method to analyse the text. Factors which promote thriving has been explored in this paper are knowledge about the work, positive interpersonal relationship, focus on the task at hand, exploration and creativity, positive attitude towards work information sharing with supervisory support. These factors confirms the meaning of thriving at work explained by socially embedded model of thriving. This paper lacks empirical evidences and further empirical researches are needed to validate the result of present study.

Keywords


Thriving, Hermeneutics, Wings of Fire, Exploration, and Creativity.



DOI: https://doi.org/10.15614/ijpp%2F2017%2Fv8i4%2F165919