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This work describes how the Diagnostic Tool that seeks to Enrich Labor Functions (HDEFL), works in Latin America, adapted from the Model of the Job Characteristics Theory (MCP) of Hackman and Oldham (1974 and its various reviews) and based on research on labor structures carried out during 10 years in Argentina by Genoud, Broveglio and Picasso (2014, 2018). The interdisciplinary integrative approach to work design, allows to identify what characteristics of work design (CDT, motivational, social and contextual variables), activate three critical psychological states (EPC), conditioning the results of work (RT) in workers, in terms of behavior, attitudes and well-being. The typology of the study is exploratory, descriptive and explanatory; it seeks to encourage transdisciplinary interpretative cuts in the organizational studies anchored in the Sociology of Work, Administration sciences and Organizational Psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adam Smith was a moral philosopher. His economic and legal thought can't be separated from his moral psychology which frames his anthropological and social proposal. Experimental Newtonian methodology and Hume's empirism feed his approximation to the reality of human being. In this new context the traditional categories of society are defined and combined in a new way. In this paper I try to argue that the assumed optimism which sometimes is attributed to Smith about the proper functioning of a commercial society, it isn't so clear if we pay attention to his vision of human being from the experimental methodology which he uses. In addition, the hard-working man, once embarked in commercial society, experiences that the division of labor undermines his intellectual and moral capacities. The whole leads me to check his idea of work and to try to think an alternative solution to the questions that he poses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]