働きすぎる建築士とその労働世界

愛他性とクリエイテイビティはどのように 過乗1労働を導くのか

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This paper focuses on the world of labor of architects. Architects are professional specialists and engage in creative works. The research question of the paper is what drives architects to work excessively. The paper proposes two hypotheses for this research question. First, previous studies on professionals point out their orientation to “altruistic service,” and it is hypothesized that this concept also applies to the case of architects. Their orientation to the altruistic service is due to the very special nature of products they design, houses in which customers invest their life savings. Second, it is hypothesized that the requirement of creativity embedded into the work process of architects lead to their excessive labor. In other words, their intrinsically rewarding work process tends to make them work excessive hours.