Happiness and Liberal Model

JD suggests that we might consider the liberal model of work as a middle ground between the hedonistic interpretation of the convention model and human fulfillment model. Hedonistic interpretation focuses on the happiness and aims at getting whatever one wants. And it claims that individuals are free to choose their own preferences and the goal of economic activity is to satisfy preferences. That is the common point between liberal model and hedonistic interpretation. And the fulfillment school believes work can offer some potential for employee, which is the same to liberal model. However, humane fulfillment school focuses on what makes work; liberals focus on how work affects a worker’s ability and his life. Liberals denies that there is some norm to determine every one should do.

For Kantian’s perspective of the constitutions of meaningful work, meaningful work should be the work is free for people to choose and it gives them opportunities to learn something, should be the work offers a sufficient salary to satisfy workers’ desires, should be the work can help worker to develop her capacities, and should be the work can not bother she wishes to obtain happiness. And the work relationship should obey autonomy and humane beings. Kantian thinks autonomy and independence are important, and flex time gives employees greater latitude over their work schedules. In addition, wage compression would partly address a developing social issue. Lastly, the work can contribute to the development of employees’ rational ability.
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Good#1 Answer:Here is the key:
A. Compared to the conventional model:
(1) Individual workers should be free to choose the ends of their work and there is no single human good/end that all work should serve.
(2) On the other hand, the Liberal model is not about complete individualistic relativism or a kind of anything-goes subjectivism.
B. Compared