What Employment Is

What Employment Is (hereinafter, the Lectio) is the second lesson part of the Employment Essentials lesson that introduces its participants to employment and related topics.

WorldOpp Pipeline

This lesson belongs to the Introduction to Employment session of the CNM Cyber Orientation. The Orientation is the second stage of the WorldOpp Pipeline.

Content

The predecessor lectio is Options for the Graduates.

Key terms

Employment. In the workspace, employment is an agreement between an employer, who agrees to compensate an employee in exchange for his or her work time, and an employee, who agrees to follow the employer's directions during work hours in exchange for the employee compensation, as well as a process and/or result of that exchange.

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  Work Motivation Model
  Work Motivation Model. A framework for analyzing employment motivation that identifies three domains that contribute to the motivation to work. These domains include the job itself, its compensation, and its fit to one's life or so-called work-life fit.
• Work-life fit.

Employment agreement.

• Agreement

Script

Employment is an agreement between at least two parties, one of which is an employer and another is an employee. The employer compensates the employee for his or her work time. The employee agrees to follow the employer's directions during work hours in exchange for the employee compensation. The employee compensation most commonly includes money called salary or wages. This agreement is called an employment agreement.

An employer usually hires an employee to deliver some increments that the employer sells to the customers. Routinely, the employer collects money from the customers and pays the employees for the delivered work.

The Work Motivation Model demonstrates what motivates people to be hired. In order to work, an employee needs to be comfortable with three things. The first is the nature of job itself, the second is the job's compensation, and the third is so-called work-life fit or job's fit to employee's life.

How does it work? The writer of this very text wrote these very words because this person (a) liked writing, (b) was satisfied with the amount of money paid for this job, and (c) wrote these lines from home when it was convenient. The writer surely liked the job itself. Writer's compensation paid the bills and the leftover was good enough. That was the best case scenario; however, the ideal combination of all the three rarely happens. That is why people change their jobs.

Work Sellers is the successor lectio.

Questions

Lectio quiz

The answer is recorded for the lectio completion purpose:

• Are you actively looking for a job? --Yes/No/I'm not sure/Let me think/Let's move on

Placement entrance exam

Every statement below is split into one true and one false question in the actual exam.

"Employment" questions:

1. (Not) every employment is paid.
2. Both employee and employer (do not) necessarily enter into an employment agreement.
3. Employment agreements, when are made, should (not) necessarily be written.
4. Employment agreements, when are made, should (not) necessarily be oral.
5. An employer can (not) stop paying an employee without an employee consent.

"Employee" questions:

1. An employer can modify what the employee should accomplish without the employee's consent.
2. An employer can modify how the employee should accomplish his or her work without the employee's consent.

"Contractor" questions:

1. An independent contractor is an entrepreneur him- or her-self.
2. An employer pays (or cannot pay) wages or salaries to an independent contractor.
3. An employer can modify what the independent contractor should accomplish without the contractor's consent.
4. An employer can modify how the independent contractor should accomplish his or her work without the contractor's consent.
5. Independent contractors are (not) self-employed.
6. Independent contractors are (not) their own employers.