Browsing by Subject "quality of work life"

This research concerns the well-being of the people associated with a startup company geographically located in and around Finland. It explored the ideal world of startups through ethnography and thematic analysis utilizing anthropological theories of value. Entrepreneurs are often portrayed as exemplary, self-driven citizens who contribute to society through innovations and economic growth. People with such a mindset of freedom and self-dependence formed the startup organization to bring the ideal world to life. However, they simultaneously relied on hierarchical and role-based relations to function as a coherent organization. Living in such contradictions, feelings of euphoria and vague emptiness roomed as the ideal world seemed to be within reach yet impossible to actually attain. In such a place, having anything that could truly be called well-being - if it means being one with the world they envision and attaining what they consider important - was difficult.