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Jahody's theory - one of the theories that allows us to examine the motivation factor for work, based on the knowledge of people who have lost their jobs and the consequent consequences. In her theory, Marie Jahoda distinguished two needs. Need for public (economic) work, as a source of financial resources to safeguard human life and latent needs (the psychological function of work), resulting from the desire to establish and maintain social contacts, the desire to achieve and maintain high social status and sense of purpose and time structure. According to this approach, people work mainly to meet the need for publicity. However, this loss of ability to meet latent needs is one of the most important costs of unemployment from the perspective of the individual. The work provides the psychological resistance and activity of the individual, and its absence is a source of passivity and resignation. However, there are no negative consequences of losing employment in all cases. If an individual is able to meet latent needs, outside the workplace or in any other appropriate way, then he or she is not exposed to discomfort or suffering. History

The theory is based on research into the motivation for the work of people who have lost their jobs. His observations Marie Jahoda began in 1931 the unemployed residents of the Austrian village of Marienthal in the municipality of Gramatneusiedl. As the author herself emphasized, research was not based on any specific theory. Due to the small concentration on the research method, no research questions were raised, and only the focus was on the problem and the observation of the unemployed. Jahody's concept still influences knowledge of the causes and consequences of unemployment. Bibliography

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