The Dissatisfied Worker

Abstract

more general condition which it reflects, and is not caused by inherent characteristics of the work itself, nor by lack of mental ability, physical deficiency, or technical unfitness. Adjustment to the job "always implies a fairly adequate emotional adjustment of the individual to all the various major aspects of social life?to superiors, to inferiors, to competitive situations, to family situations, to sexual problems, etc." Of course other workers applying psychology and psychiatry in industry have stressed this point, though possibly treating it in less detail, for instance, V. V. Anderson in "Psychiatry In Industry" indicates one group of work failures as "those problem employees