Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / November 13, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Sep. 2009
According to the use that is given to it, the word dependence can refer various questions.
Dependency is subordination
On the one hand, when one wants to refer to the subordination that someone presents with respect to another in a work environment, we speak of dependency. Generally, in a company, employees manifest a dependency relationship in relation to their bosses or immediate superiors, owing to them I respect and they must also go to them every time they need an authorization to access a special permit or to move forward in a negotiation or business that they are attending..
The employee who is working in a dependency relationship, as it is said of those who do not work independently or On your own, you will never be able to make unilateral decisions on your own, but will have to consult almost everything with your higher.
There are people who, due to the characteristics of their way of being, cannot stand this situation and are usually quite problems in jobs of this type and then normally his fate ends in dismissal for not knowing how to comply orders.
Administrative dependencies
Also, it is designated with the term of dependency to that office that depends on another that has a greater entity or importance.
Many companies u organizations of the state deploy tasks of national scope and even international in some cases, then, in order to cover their work in a whole territory, or abroad, they need to establish dependencies, which as we said are smaller offices that depend on a major or headquarters and in which the same procedures are operated. They are also often referred to as affiliates.
Unit or service area in a house
Meanwhile, to each of the rooms in which a house or apartment is divided is designated by the generic term of dependencies. Meanwhile it is commonly called as a service unit, to that room where the maid, the housekeeper or the butler who works and lives in a house is housed. They are generally designed in the area adjacent to the kitchen and, in addition to the bedroom, they have a bathroom in which the staff can wash.
Dependence on the OTHER
Likewise, by dependency, it calls that situation in which a person, for some reason, be it physical, mental, mental, economic or cultural cannot fend for itself in life, needing others, that is, the high degree of disability and the dysfunctionality that the person presents is of such a degree that it does or does have to resort to help, intervention, help and care from third parties.
For example, in the case of a old man, it is recurrent that given the arrival of a certain advanced age in which the inevitable cognitive and motor impairments occur, a person needs constant help and systematic of another to be able to use the most everyday issues such as feeding, fulfilling their needs, dressing, moving from one place to another, among others issues.
In this case we would be facing a physical and mental dependence. The physical dependencies also usually require the use of special instruments that help to person to move more independently, such is the case of wheelchairs, canes, crutches, among others.
Meanwhile, the other type of dependencies that we mention can occur, is the economic one, which generally manifests those that do not possess, for some reason, the ability to sustain themselves or produce capital to sustain themselves and therefore depend on a third. Older people, some women, and some nations are often financially dependent on others.
This type of dependency is one of the most common and it is also one of the most conflictive they arise when it breaks or ceases to exist and this is so because it simply leaves the person without the material resources necessary to continue living.
Drug addiction
On the other hand, the word dependency usually has a special presence in the context of addictions and their treatment. There is talk of dependence on alcohol, drugs such as cocaine, marijuana, among others, pills, when a person cannot stop consuming them despite being able to do so by all means possible.
When dependence on any of these substances reaches a point of total inability to leave them and also begins to generate problems of health and behavior in addicted people will require the intervention of some treatment that definitively ends with that dependence.