otupujúca práca

English translation: mind-numbing work

12:17 Apr 30, 2013
Slovak to English translations [PRO]
Science - Psychology / hodnotenie psychickej pracovnej zataze
Slovak term or phrase: otupujúca práca
Na základe desiatich položiek, ktorými sú časová tieseň, malé uspokojenie z práce, vysoká zodpovednosť pri práci, otupujúca práca, problémy a konflikty na pracovisku, monotónia, nervozita, presýtenie, únava, dlhodobé prekračovanie maximálnej únosnosti, metóda individuálne aj skupinovo hodnotí psychickú záťaž pri práci v charakteristikách: psychické preťaženie, monotónna záťaž (monotónia) a nešpecifická záťaž.
Maria Ferencikova
Local time: 02:30
English translation:mind-numbing work
Explanation:
“transforming what could be mind-numbing work into a more complex and engaging activity”
International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2004
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Stuart Hoskins
Local time: 02:30
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Summary of answers provided
3 +4mind-numbing work
Stuart Hoskins
4 +1stultifying work
Slavomir BELIS
3 +2debilitating work
Hannah Geiger (X)
4deadening work
Vladimír Hoffman
4soul-draining job
Lucie Maruniakova
3monotonous
Maria Chmelarova
3mundane tasks (at work)/doing mundane tasks (at work)
Uncle


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
deadening work


Explanation:
alebo souless work, ale to sa do odborného textu príliš nehodí.

Vladimír Hoffman
Slovakia
Local time: 02:30
Native speaker of: Native in SlovakSlovak
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
stultifying work


Explanation:
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Tisíce výsledkov na webe. Zopár príkladov:

You also have to do a lot of extremely boring, stultifying work that may have you screaming for a drink and a quiet place to get away from it all every day of your life.
http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2010111909091...

Andrea Veltman (James Madison University) says that's an unfortunate truth because meaningful and fulfilling work are central to living well - and that it boosts self-respect, dignity, and autonomy. Degrading and stultifying work, she says, can have the opposite effect.
http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Andrea-Veltman/1313737431

In trying to squeeze it all in - escape from a prospective marriage to a wizened old man; long, stultifying work as a maid in London... - it suffers the fate of...
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertain...

...and she wasted her labour on barbarously unproductive, petty, nerve-racking and stultifying work of crushing drudgery.
http://kgfindia.com/on-women-emancipation.php



Slavomir BELIS
Slovakia
Local time: 02:30
Native speaker of: Slovak

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Stuart Hoskins
32 mins
  -> Thank you.
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42 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
mind-numbing work


Explanation:
“transforming what could be mind-numbing work into a more complex and engaging activity”
International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2004


Stuart Hoskins
Local time: 02:30
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 19

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Michal Fabian
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Michal

agree  Pavel Slama: the most natural choice I'd say
5 hrs
  -> Thanks, babylondon

agree  Vladimír Hoffman
6 hrs
  -> Thanks, Vladimir

agree  Nathaniel2
1 day 5 hrs
  -> Thanks, Nathaniel2
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54 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
soul-draining job


Explanation:
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Lucie Maruniakova
Czech Republic
Local time: 02:30
Works in field
Native speaker of: Czech
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57 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
monotonous


Explanation:
ak otupny = jednotvarny, nudny, fadny a nechcete pouzit dull, boring dreary or uninteresting or ...

Maria Chmelarova
Local time: 20:30
Native speaker of: Slovak
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1 min   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
debilitating work


Explanation:
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..or tasks

I do not think they mean occupation

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debilitating
adjective weakening, tiring, exhausting, draining, fatiguing, wearing, sapping, incapacitating, enervating, enfeebling, devitalizing
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/debilitating


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If you wish, DULLING would be another word, a real relative of the debilitating

Hannah Geiger (X)
United States
Local time: 20:30
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in CzechCzech, Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lucia [Lulu] Lay
0 min
  -> děkuji Lucia

agree  Zbyněk Táborský
10 mins
  -> díky Zbyňku

neutral  Slavomir BELIS: debilitating/draining - oslabujúca, vysiľujúca a podobne - veď to tomu vôbec nezodpovedá./Debilitating work is connected with injuries, illnesses, disorders et cetera because it is - vysiľujúca, oslabujúca - et cetera. And - otupovať - is not about this.
22 mins
  -> I respectfully disagree

neutral  Stuart Hoskins: this would be “vysiľujúca práca” not “duchamorná práca”
41 mins
  -> I respectfully disagree

agree  Kristian Madar: no ale praca ktora vas vysiluje vas aj otupuje. A to je jedno ci fyicky alebo psychicky
57 mins
  -> děkuji, Kristian

disagree  Pavel Slama: never heard in this context
6 hrs
  -> well, I have
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1 day 18 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
mundane tasks (at work)/doing mundane tasks (at work)


Explanation:
just an idea...

Uncle
Local time: 02:30
Native speaker of: Native in SlovakSlovak
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