Does management include intellectual stimulation or opportunities for innovation?
Also in the same Sept 6 Science News article, on materialism. They started with a group of students in an MBA program. They surveyed the students 4-9 years later, when they were making between $80k and $2m annually. They reported that the students that were working "mainly for intellectual stimulation, opportunities for innovation, and other intrinsic values" had less satisfaction and were less happy, the more money they were paid. However, the students who entered the business world for the purpose of making money felt happier the more money they were making.
Um, duh! Who goes into management thinking that they're going to have "intellectual stimulation" and "opportunities for innovation"? The people that were thinking that entered the wrong master's program to start with. Of course their happiness and satisfaction is going to be less. A more fair comparison would be to compare the "money-makers" with another business-but-non-monetary group - for example, the group that goes into management for the power of it. I suppose then it would be hard to find a group of people that make a lot of money but don't have a lot of power, to compare with a group that has a lot of power but makes very little money. Because usually the two go hand in hand, as you move up the management ladder.
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