"A personal or systems concept? An investigation of meaningful work"
by Lips-Wiersma, Marjolein (2014)
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, staff & students of Kobe University. First of all, I would like to say thank you very much for coming tonight. It’s wonderful to see you all here and I would really like to say thank you very much to the Kobe University for hosting me. I feel very privileged for being at this beautiful university, which I know has a very good reputation. So, it’s a real honor to be here tonight. Also, I want to thank Kanbe-san, your Ph.D student, for bringing the work on meaning to Japan. When you develop something in one country and find it is useful in another country that is really special. So, thank you very much for making it useful to Japan. Also, of course, thank you to Associate Professor Krahnke-san for making the connections between all of us in all the different countries in which we have lived and are living. Thank you very much for that. It’s much appreciated. Also, of course, to Professor Fujimoto for really making this happen in the material way as well as being here and taking an interest, thank you very much. Last of course but not least to Professor Kanai for also hosting me here and all the work you’ve done. As academics we never develop our theories alone. We always stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before us and so I am very grateful to all of you for making this possible. Today, I am going to talk to you about meaningful work. I am going to talk to you a little bit about my past research which is basically what Kanbe-san has used and developed, and then I am going to take a larger sociological perspective on it in terms of “what does this mean for the world”?, “how do we create meaningful work and why is this important for the world at large”? ”How do we rethink our work so that it positively affects our well-being as individuals but also creates a better world”? I want to ambitiously address both of those topics tonight. We will see how far we get.
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