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In the Balance: What makes a good job?

What makes a good job?

13/07/2019 GMT

BBC World Service - In the Balance, What makes a good job?

What elements do you need for a good quality of working life?

Where have all the good jobs gone?  With the shift from manufacturing to service sector jobs in many industrialised countries, Audrey Tinline and guests look at whether some jobs are providing a better quality of work than others.  Many people now expect to have a number of different jobs, or even careers, across their working lives - have we lost something in not having a job for life?  Or have we gained new freedoms to re-invent ourselves? 

Contributors: 
Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice at London Business School 
Leda Glyptis, Chief of Staff at 11:FS 
Louise Carter-King, Mayor of Gillette, Wyoming
Dave Proctor, Programme Leader in Trade Union Education, Ruskin College, Oxford

Picture: Coal Mining In Gillette, Wyoming. (Credit: Getty Images 2004)

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