CONTROLLERS AND WAGES AS FINANCIAL SATISFACTION PART I

Do you think that if your wages increased tomorrow, you will be a happier controller? Are you satisfied with your pay? How much should you earn as a controller? Will your motivation to do Atc increase if your wages increased? Please have a look at the following video, which I will discuss tomorrow. I stayed awake all night preparing a research proposal on GDP, wages and happiness so tomorrow my post will be a little academic but still worth your reading. I urge you to look at the whole video before you make a judgement. The video is 10 minutes. Have a good evening guys an gals!

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WHAT ARE OUR RESOURCES IN ATC?

Preview Questions

Do we need more resources in Atc? What are the controller's resources in Atc and the relation between well-being and these resources? What are psychological resources and how can they be useful in the workplace?

Have you ever wondered what are our resources in Atc? Think about it for a minute. Ask your colleagues at work.  According to the Merriam Webster online dictionary, resources can be: sources of supply and support; phenomena that enhance the quality of human life; sources of information or expertise; possibilities of relief or recovery; abilities to handle a situation. Do we have need of resources in Atc? As you contemplate this question, I invite you to take a look at the following video:

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MEASURING WELL-BEING

Preview Questions:

What myth has the media portrayed about controllers?How can surveys help us to find out about well-being?   What are the implications of globalization for Atc? How can controllers address the problem of the increased workload?

Hello everyone! I'm back! I'm still a little sleepy but it feels great to be back on the lilac page! First - thank you for the many page views. You have inspired me to keep writing. Second, those of you who are having problems with the survey please let me know. Third, I want to make it clear to the media that CONTROLLERS DO NOT GO TO WORK TO SLEEP so please stop portraying us as sleeping. I have been searching for cartoon photos to illustrate some psychological aspects of Atc and most of them send the subliminal message that our job is to sleep. How misleading! 

CONTROLLERS DO NOT GO TO WORK TO SLEEP

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Hello everyone! I will be back from Wednesday! I have just finished my memoire and I am preparing to give my defense. I will be speaking about the psychology of Atc so you will be in my thoughts. Thank you for viewing and reading my blog! I look forward to sharing my thoughts and some equations with you next week! Ciao!
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{Absent for the week; posts resume june 13th}

To all my readers I am sorry for the absence of posts but I am writing my "memoire" (dissertation) plus I just moved to Paris from the suburbs. I will not post until june 13th.
To make up for my absence for the past few days I will share a fable that describes a behavior which impacts upon well-being. This fable is based on a spider known as Brer Anancy. He is popular in African, American and Caribbean folklore. As you read the fable, see if you can guess the behavioral trait and try to think of how this can be manifested in the workplace:

Brer Anancy and the pot of stewed beans

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Well-being in Air traffic control (Atc)

What is well-being? Is it health? Is it happiness? Both are correct. The textbook approach tells us that well-being is multidimensional because it is the interaction of different elements of health: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual as well as our environment and our culture. Is the workplace linked to our wellbeing? Yes, it is. What we want to know is how the linkages are made, what affects what. 

Think of well-being as a chain with links. Each link represents an element of health or environment or culture that interacts with another element and so on. The interaction of these links can be strong like a metallic chain or weak like paper decorations. We can call this the sum effect of our well-being which will either improve or diminish our happiness, outlook, social interaction and health.

How do you describe your well-being as an air traffic controller?

like a paper chain

like a metallic chain

courtesy: FreeDigitalPhotos.net

or like this?

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WICA 2012 (continued...)

All atcos are invited to fill the survey: retirees as well as those who may be serving in other capacities related to Atc:
https://www.esurveycreator.com/live.php?code=6f77a43

The past is linked to the future by the bridge of the present. The atcos who passed through the system and witnessed the changes to Atc over the past decades will have a vast reservoir of combined experience. They are our best Atc gurus to tell us what they think, what they observed, what their mistakes were and what we can do to make Atc better and more rewarding.
I have added a few more items and included a comments box so that we in the present can benefit from centuries of combined experience in the future.
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Well-being Inventory of the Controller in Air traffic services (WICA 2012)

What is well-being  in Atc? Can well-being influence performance and productivity in Atc ? What makes a controller happy ? Is it more pay ? Is it better working conditions ? Are there elements of safety that can be applied to controller well-being ? Can a controller's view of the self affect the performance at work, the manner in which Atc is carried out and the interactions with others ? What is the link between organizational structure and the well-being of controllers ?

The survey above for controllers and ex-controllers will help us to explore the answers to those questions. The answers from the surveys will be used to construct a multifaceted index of well-being of controllers. I am testing the theory that Atc performance and organizational productivity is an interaction of features of organizational economics, behavioral economics and social psychology. I will present  the findings with the objective of motivating improvements and adjustments in the governance and organization of Atc units worldwide.

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