CAN HARD WORK BE EQUATED TO GOOD WORK?

For some, earning a couple of hundred bucks could be REAL hard work.  Some tasks are time-consuming, energy-intense and laborious.  Some can even be a ‘dirty job’ in the real sense of the word.

Spending good many hours to do REAL hard work is good but is it GOOD work.  Working late and never complaining can sometimes be concluded that the employees are GOOD just because they are willing to put in some hard work.

Of course everybody agree that success must come with some degree of hard work.  It is common among us to equate hard work to GOOD work.  Some business owners may even have that feeling of uneasiness when people is not staying back to work extra hours.  This type of business owners usually equates working late with working hard and thus they are good staff.

In reality, the hard working staff may not be producing good work.  They stayed back working overtime because they take longer time to complete task than others in the same position.  Those who do not stay back do not mean they do not mean they are not good worker or that their work is not GOOD.  It’s just because they can do the job faster or in a smarter way.

If all task can and are to be measured base on pure hard work and the number of hours put in, then performance and effiency is so easy and straight forward.  But it is not as easy as that since performance should be measured by results.  Hard work is still needed so as to get results.  But good results cannot be obtained by just pure hard work; especially when time is of the essence.

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Is hard work really good work? By Jeanisha Wan, Starmetro, Tuesday, 12 Mac 2013