• Meaningful Work

References for Theme: Meaningful Work

• Albrecht, Simon L
• "Work Engagement and the Positive Power of Meaningful Work" (2013)

• Allan, Blake A; Autin, Kelsey L; Duffy, Ryan D
• "Examining Social Class and Work Meaning Within the Psychology of Working Framework" (2014)

• "Self-Determination and Meaningful Work: Exploring Socioeconomic Constraints" (2016)

• Allan, Blake A; Batz-Barbarich, Cassondra; Sterling, Haley M; Tay, Louis
• "Outcomes of meaningful work: A meta‐analysis" (2019)

• Allan, Blake A; Douglass, Richard P; Duffy, Ryan D; McCarty, Ryan J
• "Meaningful Work as a Moderator of the Relation Between Work Stress and Meaning in Life" (2016)

• Allan, Blake A; Duffy, Ryan D; Douglass, Richard
• "Meaning in Life and Work: A Developmental Perspective" (2015)

• Althorpe, Caleb
• "Meaningful work, nonperfectionism, and reciprocity" (n.d.)

• Althorpe, Caleb; Department of Philosophy, Florida State University
• "What Is Meaningful Work? in advance" (2022)

• Arneson, Richard J
• "Meaningful Work and Market Socialism" (1987)

• "Meaningful Work and Market Socialism Revisited" (2009)

  (p.140) Intervening in the market processes to bring about greater satisfaction of the particular preference for meaningful work unfairly privileges certain preferences (and the people to whom they happen to be important) over other preferences (and people), and this is morally wrong. The key point is that there are a great many goods other than meaningful work that people might reasonably pursue via their economic activity. There is no good perfectionist case that meaningful work trumps these other goods, and no good paternalist case that overruling people's own judgements to pursue some mix of goods other than meaningful work would advance...

• "Meaningful Work and Market Socialism Revisited" (2009)

  (p.144) In some range of these cases, a welfarist egalitarian might be able to block the complaint of the frustrated fans of meaningful work from having a claim to extra resources in response to their frustration, on the ground that it is the fault or voluntary choice of the fans that has placed them in this predicament. But in other cases, this excuse compatible with welfarism for declining to intervene will not be available (see Arneson 2000; 2001; 2007). Suppose these people have come to have a need for meaningful work through prudent and responsible conduct of life, so one cannot...

• "Meaningful Work and Market Socialism Revisited" (2009)

• Arnold, Denis Gordon; Harris, Jared D
• Kantian Business Ethics: Critical Perspectives (2012)

• Arnold, Kara A; Turner, Nick; Barling, Julian; Kelloway, E Kevin; McKee, Margaret C
• "Transformational Leadership and Psychological Well-being: the Mediating Role of Meaningful Work" (2007)

• Arvey, Richard D; Harpaz, Itzhak; Liao, Hui
• "Work centrality and post-award work behavior of lottery winners" (2004)

  Our findings indicated that the average amount won among those who chose to continue working was relatively high ($2.59 million), suggesting a relatively high monetary threshold for discontinuing work, and even among these high winners, a sizable number still continued working. For instance, a 64-year-old bus driver who won $20 million dollars stated (in the open-ended section of the questionnaire) that the “lottery is just a bonus that came my way, it has not or will not affect my work habits and goals in life.” (p. 415-6)

• Asik-Dizdar, Ozen; Esen, Ayla
• "Sensemaking at Work: Meaningful Work Experience for Individuals and Organizations" (2016)

• Bailey, Catherine; Madden, Adrian
• "What Makes Work Meaningful - or Meaningless?" (2016)

• "What makes work meaningful—Or meaningless" (2016)

  (p.14) Finding your work meaningful is an experience that reaches beyond the workplace and into the realms of the individual’s wider personal life. It can be a very profound, moving and even uncomfortable experience. It arises rarely and often in unexpected ways; it gives people pause for thought not just concerning work, but what life itself is all about. In experiencing our work as meaningful, we cease to be workers or employees and become human beings, reaching out in a bond of common humanity to others. For organizations seeking to “manage meaningfulness” the ethical and moral responsibility is very great, since...

• "What makes work meaningful—Or meaningless" (2016)

• "Why Meaningful Work Matters" (2017)

• "“We’re not scum, we’re human”: Agential responses in the face of meaningless work" (2019)

  (p.1) Meaningful work is a topic of significant interest at present in the management field, particularly in light of concerns over job quality and the availability of decent work (Bailey, Yeoman, Madden, Thompson, & Kerridge, 2018). Among recent debates, a growing body of literature has begun to shed light on the processes by which work is rendered meaningful to the individual worker (Mitra & Buzzanell, 2016; Rosso, Dekas, & Wrzesniewski, 2010). Central to these are a sense of unity with others, the perception that one’s work is of service to others or a transcendent cause, self-expression, and the development of one’s...

• "“We’re not scum, we’re human”: Agential responses in the face of meaningless work" (2019)

  (p.10) Our research reveals how meaningless work experiences arise through the relational processes of powerlessness, disconnection, devaluation and self-doubt. In dealing with these, we have shown that individuals deploy a complex and interconnected range of agential responses. Not all responses are geared towards the reinstatement of meaningfulness; rather, in some instances, individuals are concerned with coping with the experience of meaninglessness which some informants explicitly state to be an inevitable, yet episodic feature of their work (Bailey & Madden, 2016). Our research moves understandings of meaningful/meaningless work beyond the self-oriented mechanisms more commonly used to explain these, towards a more relational...

• "“We’re not scum, we’re human”: Agential responses in the face of meaningless work" (2019)

  (p.2) Work always has a meaning for the individual worker which, as Budd (2011) has argued, can range at the extreme from being a curse, a disutility or, conversely, a source of freedom. However, not all work is meaningful, and meaningful work is not the same as the “meaning of” work. Meaningful work is conditional on its connection to something beyond the immediate tasks and roles, to something that is deemed, voluntarily, to be worthwhile in terms of overall life purpose (Bailey & Madden, 2017; Dik, Duffy, & Eldridge, 2009). Meaningful work is therefore work that goes “beyond the self” in...

• "“We’re not scum, we’re human”: Agential responses in the face of meaningless work" (2019)

  (p.3) The affordances of work for the experience of meaningfulness are bound up in the social and ontological significance of the tasks we perform and the viewpoints of those in our netdom towards them (Mei, 2006). The implication is that work in and of itself has little or no inherent value as meaningful or meaningless, but rather the evaluation of these depends in large part on the perspective of the individual (Kenny, Whittle, & Willmott, 2011), whose viewpoint is formed within the context of the multiple, contested perspectives of netdom participants. One question that arises from this notion is who, specifically,...

• "“We’re not scum, we’re human”: Agential responses in the face of meaningless work" (2019)

• Bailey, Catherine; Madden, Adrian; Alfes, Kerstin; Shantz, Amanda; Soane, Emma
• "The Mismanaged Soul: Existential Labor and the Erosion of Meaningful Work" (2017)

• Bailey, Catherine; Yeoman, Ruth; Madden, Adrian; Thompson, Marc; Kerridge, Gary
• "A Review of the Empirical Literature on Meaningful Work: Progress and Research Agenda" (2019)

• Baldry, Christopher; Bain, P; Taylor, P; Hyman, J; Scholarios, D; Marks, A; Watson, A; Gilbert, Kay; Bunzel, Dirk; Gall, Gregor
• The Meaning of Work in the New Economy (2007)

• Bankins, Sarah; Formosa, Paul
• "Ethical AI at work: The social contract for artificial intelligence and its implications for the workplace psychological contract" (2021)

• "The Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) For Meaningful Work" (2023)

• Bassi, Marta; Bacher, Gertraud; Negri, Luca; Delle Fave, Antonella
• "The Contribution of Job Happiness and Job Meaning to the Well-being of Workers From Thriving and Failing Companies" (2013)

• Beadle, Ron
• "Work, Meaning, and Virtue" (2019)

• Beadle, Ron; Knight, Kelvin
• "Virtue and Meaningful Work" (2012)

  (p.434)  As one of the principal domains in which experience is organized and self-under standing emerges (Gini 2001, Michaelson 2008), work is critical for agents' ongoing "search for meaning" (Frankl 1959). The question of whether and how work that is also paid employment can be experienced as meaningful in itself is debated within both social psychology and ethics, but largely in isolation from each other. Enquiries in social psychology are thereby denied the resources that might be provided by ethical enquiries for the critique of its findings, whilst ethics, as Aristotelians have long argued (Anscombe 1958), is hopelessly abstract if uninformed by psychology. To illustrate this contention, assume for...

• "Virtue and Meaningful Work" (2012)

• Bechky, Beth A
• "Sharing Meaning Across Occupational Communities: The Transformation of Understanding on a Production Floor" (2003)

• Berg, Justin M; Dutton, Jane E
• "Job Crafting and Meaningful Work" (2013)

• Berg, Justin M; Dutton, Jane E; Wrzesniewski, Amy
• "Job crafting and meaningful work" (2013)

• Both-Nwabuwe, Jitske M C; Lips-Wiersma, Marjolein; Dijkstra, Maria T M; Beersma, Bianca
• "Understanding the autonomy-meaningful work relationship in nursing: A theoretical framework" (2020)

• Bowie, Norman E
• "A Kantian Theory of Meaningful Work" (1998)

• "Dignity and Meaningful Work" (2019)

• Breen, K
• "In Defence of Meaningful Work as a Public Policy Concern" (2016)

• Breen, Keith
• "In Defence of Meaningful Work as a Public Policy Concern" (2016)

• "In Defence of Meaningful Work as a Public Policy Concern" (2016)

• Brief, Arthur P; Nord, Walter R
• Meanings of Occupational Work: a Collection of Essays (1990)

• Broadfoot, Kirsten J; Carlone, David; Medved, Caryn E; Aakhus, Mark; Gabor, Elena; Taylor, Karen
• "Meaning/ful Work and Organizational Communication: Questioning Boundaries, Positionalities, and Engagements" (2008)

• Bunderson, J Stuart; Thompson, Jeffery A
• "The Call of the Wild: Zookeepers, Callings, and the Double-edged Sword of Deeply Meaningful Work" (2009)

• Carton, Andrew M
• "I’m Not Mopping the Floors, I’m Putting a Man on the Moon: How Nasa Leaders Enhanced the Meaningfulness of Work by Changing the Meaning of Work" (2018)

• Cartwright, Susan; Holmes, Nicola
• "The Meaning of Work: The Challenge of Regaining Employee Engagement and Reducing Cynicism" (2006)

• Celentano, Denise
• "Labor automation for fair cooperation: Why and how machines should provide meaningful work for all" (2023)

• Chalofsky, Neal
• "An Emerging Construct for Meaningful Work" (2003)

• Chalofsky, Neal E
• Meaningful Workplaces: Reframing How and Where we Work (2010)

• Chalofsky, Neal; Cavallaro, Liz
• "A Good Living Versus A Good Life: Meaning, Purpose, and HRD" (2013)

• Chalofsky, Neal; Cavallero, Elizabeth
• "To Have Lived Well: Well-being and Meaningful Work" (2019)

• Chalofsky, Neal; Krishna, Vijay
• "Meaningfulness, Commitment, and Engagement:The Intersection of a Deeper Level of Intrinsic Motivation" (2009)

• Chan, Thomas Miranda; Nakamura, Jeanne
• "A Generativity Track to Life Meaning in Retirement: Ego-Integrity Returns on Past Academic Mentoring Investments" (2016)

• Ciulla, Joanne B
• "Worthy Work and Bowie's Kantian Theory of Meaningful Work" (2012)

• Crawford, Matthew B
• Shop class as soulcraft: An inquiry into the value of work (2009)

• Danaher, John
• "Will Life Be Worth Living in a World Without Work? Technological Unemployment and the Meaning of Life" (2017)

• Demirtas, Ozgur; Hannah, Sean T; Gok, Kubilay; Arslan, Aykut; Capar, Nejat
• "The Moderated Influence of Ethical Leadership, via Meaningful Work, on Followers’ Engagement, Organizational Identification, and Envy" (2017)

• Dempsey, Sarah E; Sanders, Matthew L
• "Meaningful Work? Nonprofit Marketization and Work/ Life Imbalance in Popular Autobiographies of Social Entrepreneurship" (2010)

• DesJardins, Joseph R
• "Meaningful Work" (2012)

• Dik, Bryan J; Duffy, Ryan D; Eldridge, Brandy M
• "Calling and Vocation in Career Counseling: Recommendations for Promoting Meaningful Work" (2009)

• Dur, Robert; Lent, Max
• "Socially useless jobs" (2019)

• Elster, Jon
• "Self-Realization in Work and Politics: The Marxist Conception of the Good Life" (1986)

• Fairlie, Paul
• "Meaningful Work, Employee Engagement, and Other Key Employee Outcomes: Implications for Human Resource Development" (2011)

• Formosa, Paul; Ryan, Malcolm
• "Making moral machines: why we need artificial moral agents" (2021)

• Foster, John Bellamy
• "Monthly Review | The Meaning of Work in a Sustainable Society" (2017)

• Fouché, Elmari; Rothmann, Sebastiaan Snr; Van der Vyver, Corné
• "Antecedents and Outcomes of Meaningful Work among School Teachers" (2017)

• Furåker, Bengt; Håkansson, Kristina
• Work Orientations: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Findings (2019)

• Gallie, Duncan
• "Direct Participation and Meaningful Work: The Implications of Task Discretion and Organizational Participation" (2019)

• Geldenhuys, Madelyn; Laba, Karolina; Venter, Cornelia M
• "Meaningful Work, Work Engagement and Organisational Commitment" (2014)

• Graeber, David
• "On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs: A work rant" (2013)

  (p.2) productive jobs have, just as predicted, been largely automated away […]. But rather than allowing a massive reduction of working hours to free the world’s population to pursue their own projects, pleasures, visions, and ideas, we have seen the ballooning of not even so much of the ‘service’ sector as of the administrative sector, up to and including the creation of whole new industries like financial services or telemarketing, or the unprecedented expansion of sectors like corporate law, academic and health administration, human resources, and public relations. And these numbers do not even reflect on all those people whose job...

• "On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs: A work rant" (2013)

  (p.5) This is a profound psychological violence here. How can one even begin to speak of dignity in labour when one secretly feels one’s job should not exist? How can it not create a sense of deep rage and resentment.

• "On the phenomenon of bullshit jobs: A work rant" (2013)

• "Are you in a BS job? In academe, you’re hardly alone" (2018)

• Harpaz, Itzhak
• "Expressing a wish to continue or stop working as related to the meaning of work" (2002)

  Kaplan (1985) reports that in his study of 576 lottery winners in the USA, only 11% of them ceased working. Similarly, in a recent study, Arvey, Harpaz, and Hui (2001) disclosed that more than 86% of an American sample that won an average of US$3.39 million (sd US$5.08 million) in the lottery, continued working. Hence, these findings are supportive evidence that the hypothetical ‘lottery question’ may in fact be regarded as an accurate indicative of actual behavioural intention in the work place” (p 179-80)

• Harpaz, Itzhak; Fu, Xuanning
• "Work Centrality in Germany, Israel, Japan, and the United States" (1997)

• "The Structure of the Meaning of Work: A Relative Stability Amidst Change" (2002)

• Harpaz, Itzhak; Snir, Raphael
• Heavy Work Investment: Its Nature, Sources, Outcomes, and Future Directions (2014)

• Hedenus, Anna
• "Who wants to work less? Significance of socio-economic status and work conditions for work commitment among Swedish lottery winners" (2012)

• Heine, Steven J; Proulx, Travis; Vohs, Kathleen D
• "The meaning maintenance model: on the coherence of social motivations" (2006)

• Hirschi, Andreas
• "Callings and Work Engagement: Moderated Mediation Model of Work Meaningfulness, Occupational Identity, and Occupational Self-efficacy" (2012)

• Hodson, Randy
• Dignity at Work (2001)

• Hoole, Crystal; Bonnema, Jackie
• "Work Engagement and Meaningful Work Across Generational Cohorts" (2015)

• Isaksen, Jesper
• "Constructing Meaning Despite the Drudgery of Repetitive Work" (2000)

• Jaeggi, Rahel
• "Pathologies of Work" (2017)

• Johnson, Matthew J; Jiang, Lixin
• "Reaping the Benefits of Meaningful Work: The Mediating Versus Moderating Role of Work Engagement" (2017)

• Kim, Tae Wan; Scheller-Wolf, Alan
• "Technological unemployment, meaning in life, purpose of business, and the future of stakeholders" (2019)

  (p.322) Many participants in recent public discussions about the coming workforce transformation focus only on the economic sustenance of displaced workers in our envisioned future society; there is a consensus on the need for a proper (re)distributive scheme to ensure societal stability. This will be some form of a basic income guarantee, usually defined as “an income paid by a political community to all its members on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement” (Van Parijs 2004, p. 8). In a similar manner, a “negative income tax” (people whose income is below some amount receive cash from the government...

• "Technological unemployment, meaning in life, purpose of business, and the future of stakeholders" (2019)

• Kisselburgh, Lorraine G; Berkelaar, Brenda L; Buzzanell, Patrice M
• "Discourse, Gender, and the Meaning of Work Rearticulating Science, Technology, and Engineering Careers Through Communicative Lenses" (2009)

• Kuhn, Timothy; Golden, Annis G; Jorgenson, Jane; Buzzanell, Patrice M; Berkelaar, Brenda L; Kisselburgh, Lorraine G; Kleinman, Sharon; Cruz, Disraelly
• "Cultural Discourses and Discursive Resources for Meaning/ful Work: Constructing and Disrupting Identities in Contemporary Capitalism" (2008)

• Lee, Michelle Chin Chin; Idris, Mohd Awang; Delfabbro, Paul H
• "The Linkages Between Hierarchical Culture and Empowering Leadership and Their Effects on Employees’ Work Engagement: Work Meaningfulness as a Mediator" (2017)

• Lepisto, Douglas A; Pratt, Michael G
• "Meaningful Work as Realization and Justification: Toward a Dual Conceptualization" (2017)

• Leunissen, Joost M; Sedikides, Constantine; Wildschut, Tim; Cohen, Taya R
• "Organizational Nostalgia Lowers Turnover Intentions by Increasing Work Meaning: The Moderating Role of Burnout" (2018)

• Lips-Wiersma, Marjolein; Morris, Lani
• "Discriminating between ‘Meaningful Work’ and the ‘Management of Meaning’" (2009)

• "Discriminating between ‘meaningful work’and the ‘management of meaning’" (2009)

• The Map of Meaningful Work (2e): A Practical Guide to Sustaining our Humanity (2017)

• Lips-Wiersma, Marjolein; Wright, Sarah
• "Measuring the Meaning of Meaningful Work: Development and Validation of the Comprehensive Meaningful Work Scale (CMWS)" (2012)

• Lips-Wiersma, Marjolein; Wright, Sarah; Dik, Bryan
• "Meaningful Work: Differences among Blue-, Pink-, and White-collar Occupations" (2016)

• Lips‐Wiersma, Marjolein
• "The Influence of Spiritual “Meaning‐making” on Career Behavior" (2002)

• M.O.W. International Research Team
• The Meaning of Working (1987)

• Martin, Elizabeth Ann; Hess, Jennifer; Siegel, Paul M
• Some Effects of Gender on the Meaning of "Work": An Empirical Examination (1995)

• May, Douglas R; Chen, Jiatian; Schwoerer, Catherine E; Deeg, Matthew D
• "Fostering the Human Spirit: A Positive Ethical Framework for Experiencing Meaningfulness at Work" (2019)

• May, Douglas R; Gilson, Richard L; Harter, Lynn M
• "The Psychological Conditions of Meaningfulness, Safety and Availability and the Engagement of the Human Spirit at Work" (2004)

• May, Douglas R; Li, Cuifang; Mencl, Jennifer; Huang, Ching-Chu
• "The Ethics of Meaningful Work: Types and Magnitude of Job-related Harm and the Ethical Decision-making Process" (2014)

• McGranahan, Lucas
• "Meaningful Labour, Employee Ownership, and Workplace Democracy: A Comment on Weidel" (2020)

  (p.7) Nussbaum and Weidel are right that human beings need not just work but quality work. My point has been that the structure of work determines its quality. Formal structures of firm ownership and control pervasively affected what countless human beings can be and do, with ripple effects throughout families and societies. They condition the very possibility of the kind of cooperation and mutual recognition that constitutes meaningfulness in the sphere of labour. Absent an enquiry into these structures, we default to the neoliberal assumption that an economy dominated by autocratic firms owned by absentee investors is optimal and that development consists in finding the right...

• "Meaningful Labour, Employee Ownership, and Workplace Democracy: A Comment on Weidel" (2020)

• Mei, Todd
• "The poetics of meaningful work: An analogy to speech acts" (2019)

• Mei, Todd S
• "Work and the Meaning of Being" (2019)

• Michaelson, Christopher
• "Meaningful Work and Moral Worth" (2009)

• "Whose Responsibility is Meaningful Work?" (2011)

• "Do We Have to Do Meaningful Work?" (2019)

• Michaelson, Christopher; Pratt, Michael G; Grant, Adam M; Dunn, Craig P
• "Meaningful Work: Connecting Business Ethics and Organization Studies" (2014)

• Mitra, Rahul; Buzzanell, Patrice M
• "Communicative Tensions of Meaningful Work: The Case of Sustainability Practitioners" (2017)

• Moriarty, Jeffrey
• "Rawls, Self-Respect, and the Opportunity for Meaningful Work" (2009)

• Morse, Nancy C; Weiss, Robert S
• "The Function and Meaning of Work and the Job" (1955)

• Nilsson, Kerstin
• "Why work beyond 65? Discourse on the Decision to Continue Working or Retire Early" (2012)

• Oelberger, Carrie R
• "The dark side of deeply meaningful work: Work‐relationship turmoil and the moderating role of occupational value homophily" (2019)

• Ola, Manpreet
• "Impact of Eudaimonic Well Being on Depression, Anxiety, Stress and Meaning at Work in Male and Female Doctors" (2016)

• Overell, Stephen
• Inwardness: The Rise of Meaningful Work (2008)

• Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work
• Oxford Handbook of Positive Psychology and Work (2010)

• Parmer, W Jared
• "Meaningful Work and Achievement in Increasingly Automated Workplaces" (2023)

• Parry, Jane
• "The Changing Meaning of Work: Restructuring in the Former Coalmining Communities of the South Wales Valleys" (2003)

• Pavlish, Carol L; Hunt, Roberta J; Sato, Hui-Wen; Brown-Saltzman, Katherine
• "Exploring Work Orientations and Cultural Accounts of Work: Toward a Research Agenda for Examining the Role of Culture in Meaningful Work" (2019)

• Pavlish, Carol; Hunt, Roberta
• "An Exploratory Study about Meaningful Work in Acute Care Nursing" (2012)

• Perez, Coralie; Coutrot, Thomas
• Redonner du sens au travail: Une aspiration révolutionnaire (2022)

• Pratt, Michael; Ashforth, Blake
• "Fostering Meaningfulness in Working and at Work" (2003)

• Pratt, Michael; Pradies, Camille; Lepisto, Doug A
• "Doing Well, Doing Good and Doing with: Organizational Practices for Effectively Cultivating Meaningful Work" (2013)

• Raingruber, Bonnie; Wolf, Terri
• "Nurse Perspectives Regarding the Meaningfulness of Oncology Nursing Practice" (2015)

• Rodell, Jessica B
• "Finding Meaning through Volunteering: Why Do Employees Volunteer and What Does It Mean for Their Jobs?" (2013)

• Roessler, Beate
• "Meaningful Work: Arguments from Autonomy" (2012)

• Rosso, Brent D; Dekas, Kathryn H; Wrzesniewski, Amy
• "On the Meaning of Work: A Theoretical Integration and Review" (2010)

• Rothmann, S; Hamukang’andu, L
• "Callings, Work Role Fit, Psychological Meaningfulness and Work Engagement among Teachers in Zambia" (2013)

• Schnell, Tatjana
• "Individual Differences in Meaning-making: Considering the Variety of Sources of Meaning, Their Density and Diversity" (2011)

• Schnell, Tatjana; Hoffmann, Carmen
• "ME-Work: Development and Validation of a Modular Meaning in Work Inventory" (2020)

• Schnell, Tatjana; Hoof, Matthias
• "Meaningful Commitment: Finding Meaning in Volunteer Work" (2012)

• Schnell, Tatjana; Höge, Thomas; Pollet, Edith
• "Predicting Meaning in Work: Theory, Data, Implications" (2013)

• Schnell, Tatjana; Höge, Thomas; Weber, Wolfgang G
• "“Belonging” and its Relationship to the Experience of Meaningful Work" (2019)

• Schwartz, Adina
• "Meaningful Work" (1982)

  (p.364) In the opening pages of The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith describes how pins are made in a factory: "One man draws out the wire, another straights it, a third cuts it, a fourth points it,"' and so on to eighteen distinct operations. Some workers may perform two or three of these tasks; many repeatedly execute only one operation. In contemporary industrial societies, many people work at analogues of Smith's jobs: jobs in which persons are hired to perform series of set actions such as assembly line work, keypunching, or being a clerk on an automated checkout line.2 These routine...

• "Meaningful Work" (1982)

• Schwartz, Barry
• Why We Work (2015)

• Scott, James C
• Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play (2014)

• Shamir, Boas
• "Meaning, Self and Motivation in Organizations" (1991)

• Sharabi, Moshe; Harpaz, Itzhak
• "Gender and the relative centrality of major life domains: changes over the course of time" (2011)

• Shea-Van Fossen, Rita J; Vredenburgh, Donald J
• "Exploring Differences in Work's Meaning: An Investigation of Individual Attributes Associated with Work Orientations" (2014)

• Shuck, Brad; Rose, Kevin
• "Reframing Employee Engagement Within the Context of Meaning and Purpose: Implications for HRD" (2013)

• Simpson, Alexander; Slutskaya, Natasha; Hughes, Jason; Simpson, Ruth
• "The Use of Ethnography to Explore Meanings That Refuse Collectors Attach to Their Work" (2014)

• Smids, Jilles; Nyholm, Sven; Berkers, Hannah
• "Robots in the Workplace: a Threat to—or Opportunity for—Meaningful Work?" (2020)

• Soane, Emma; Shantz, Amanda; Alfes, Kerstin; Truss, Catherine; Rees, Chris; Gatenby, Mark
• "The Association of Meaningfulness, Well-being, and Engagement with Absenteeism: A Moderated Mediation Model" (2013)

• Spencer, David A
• "Developing an Understanding of Meaningful Work in Economics: The Case for a Heterodox Economics of Work" (2015)

• Steger, Michael F
• "Creating Meaning and Purpose in Work" (2017)

• "Meaning in Life and in Work" (2019)

• Steger, Michael F; Dik, Bryan J
• "Work as Meaning: Individual and Organizational Benefits of Engaging in Meaningful Work" (2009)

  The earliest accounts of the meaning of work reach back to religious teachings about the purpose of human existence. This heritage provides a rich theoretical grounding for understanding the characteristics of meaningful work. The word ‘‘vocation’’ reflects this religious heritage, coming from the Latin word vocare, ‘‘to call.’’ For most of Western religious history, vocation referred to the belief that people were called by God to engage in religious vocation. This perspective maintained a hierarchical separation between the idealized, sacred work of monastic life and the more base, secular work of the common people. However, Augustine, Aquinas, and Benedict discussed...

• "Work as Meaning: Individual and Organizational Benefits of Engaging in Meaningful Work" (2009)

  The earliest accounts of the meaning of work reach back to religious teachings about the purpose of human existence. This heritage provides a rich theoretical grounding for understanding the characteristics of meaningful work. The word ‘‘vocation’’ reflects this religious heritage, coming from the Latin word vocare, ‘‘to call.’’ For most of Western religious history, vocation referred to the belief that people were called by God to engage in religious vocation. This perspective maintained a hierarchical separation between the idealized, sacred work of monastic life and the more base, secular work of the common people. However, Augustine, Aquinas, and Benedict discussed...

• "Work as Meaning" (2010)

• Steger, Michael F; Dik, Bryan J; Duffy, Ryan D
• "Measuring Meaningful Work: The Work and Meaning Inventory (WAMI)" (2012)

• Steger, Michael F; Littman-Ovadia, Hadassah; Miller, Michal; Menger, Lauren; Rothmann, Sebastiaan
• "Engaging in Work Even When It Is Meaningless: Positive Affective Disposition and Meaningful Work Interact in Relation to Work Engagement" (2013)

• Tausky, C
• "The Meanings of Work" (1995)

• Tausky, Curt
• "Meanings of Work among Blue Collar Men" (1969)

• The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Positivity and Strengths-Based Approaches at Work
• The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Positivity and Strengths-Based Approaches at Work (2017)

• Thory, Kathryn
• "Developing Meaningfulness at Work Through Emotional Intelligence Training" (2016)

• Tims, Maria; Derks, Daantje; Bakker, Arnold B
• "Job Crafting and Its Relationships with Person–job Fit and Meaningfulness: A Three-wave Study" (2016)

• Tummers, Lars G; Knies, Eva
• "Leadership and Meaningful Work in the Public Sector" (2013)

• Tyssedal, Jens Jørund
• "Work is Meaningful if There are Good Reasons to do it: A Revisionary Conceptual Analysis of ‘Meaningful Work’" (2022)

• Van Zyl, Llewellyn E; Deacon, Elmari; Rothmann, Sebastiaan
• "Towards Happiness: Experiences of Work-role Fit, Meaningfulness and Work Engagement of Industrial/Organisational Psychologists in South Africa" (2010)

• Vecchio, Robert P
• "The Function and Meaning of Work and the Job: Morse and Weiss (1955) Revisited" (1980)

  Anecdotal support exists for the behavioural manifestation of this predisposition. For example, one report concerns several London factory workers who won substantial sums of money from football pools. With wiseinvestment, the sums of their individual winnings would have provided sufficient income for these men to live comfortably for the remainder of their lives. Yet each of the men returned to work after a brief vacation. Perhaps even more amazing in these cases is the fact that these men held jobs that could be reasonably described as dull, routine, and repetitive” (p. 362)

• Veltman, Andrea
• "Is Meaningful Work Available to All People?" (2015)

• Meaningful Work (2016)

• Vidwans, Sagar S; Raghvendra, Parinita
• "A Study of Meaningful Work, Hope and Meaning in Life in Young Professional Artists" (2016)

• Walsh, Adrian J
• "Meaningful Work as a Distributive Good" (1994)

• Wang, Zhen; Xu, Haoying
• "When and for whom ethical leadership is more effective in eliciting work meaningfulness and positive attitudes: The moderating roles of core self-evaluation and perceived organizational support" (2019)

• Ward, Sarah J; King, Laura A
• "Work and the Good Life: How Work Contributes to Meaning in Life" (2017)

• Weidel, Timothy
• "Moving Towards a Capability for Meaningful Labor" (2018)

  (p.74) Despite her careful explication of Marx’s sense of a truly human life grounded in species-being, Nussbaum has neglected to take up the element of Marx’s conception of species-being that runs as an undercurrent through all of the aspects discussed above: the activity of labor. For Marx, the fully human person is actively shaping her world and her consciousness by laboring and producing objects that satisfy her needs. Without the possibility of a productive outlet (and that productive outlet being of a quality that allows one to utilize practical reasoning), a person is living a life that is for all intents...

• "Moving Towards a Capability for Meaningful Labor" (2018)

  (p.80) A central characteristic of meaning for meaningful labor is creation, as distinguished from passive consumption. This does not create an equivalency with actions in general,as there are actions that may not involve labor in any real sense (such as interpersonal relationships).9 The object generated by meaningful labor may be considered more ethereal than substantive (such as a song, or perhaps meeting a physical need of a care charge), but it is produced rather than consumed. Admittedly this capability as I have proposed it entails a broad categorization of what counts as “labor,” but this is an advantage, not a liability. The benefit lies in the fact...

• "Moving Towards a Capability for Meaningful Labor" (2018)

  (p.86) In order to best combat the harms caused by a lack of meaningful labor, Nussbaum’s capabilities approach cannot focus solely on providing broad opportunities to seek employment. It must be amended to include a capability for meaningful labor, so that each individual person may engage with her environment and community in ways that help her to actively shape herself into a more fully human person.

• "Moving Towards a Capability for Meaningful Labor" (2018)

• Wolfe, Alan
• "The Moral Meaning of Work" (1997)

• Wong, Ipkin Anthony; Wan, Yim King Penny; Gao, Jennifer Hong
• "How to Attract and Retain Generation Y Employees? An Exploration of Career Choice and the Meaning of Work" (2017)

• Wrzesniewski, Amy
• "Finding positive meaning in work" (2003)

• Wrzesniewski, Amy; Dutton, Jane E; Debebe, Gelaye
• "INTERPERSONAL SENSEMAKING AND THE MEANING OF WORK" (2003)

• Wrzesniewski, Amy; LoBuglio, Nicholas; Dutton, Jane E; Berg, Justin M
• "Job Crafting and Cultivating Positive Meaning and Identity in Work" (2013)

• Wulff, Kristin; Finnestrand, Hanne
• "Creating meaningful work in the age of AI: explainable AI, explainability, and why it matters to organizational designers" (2023)

• Yeoman, Ruth
• "Meaningful work and workplace democracy" (2012)

  (p.10) I aim to show that to engage in the conceptual evaluation of meaningful work is not simply an exercise in remote abstraction, but directs us toward the pragmatic political possibility of ensuring that all work possesses the structure for meaningfulness. Furthermore, not only can the value of meaningfulness in the concept of meaningful work be described, but social institutions can be arranged according to normative principles conducive to enabling all persons to attribute meaning content to their lives because of the work they do. Following Kovacs (1986), I take work to be ‘a basic mode of being in the world’,...

• "Meaningful work and workplace democracy" (2012)

• "Conceptualising Meaningful Work as a Fundamental Human Need" (2014)

• Meaningful Work and Workplace Democracy: A Philosophy of Work and a Politics of Meaningfulness (2014)

• "A Philosophy of Work and a Politics of Meaningfulness" (2015)

• Yeoman, Ruth; Bailey, Catherine; Madden, Adrian; Thompson, Marc
• The Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work (2019)

• Young, Iris Marion
• "Autonomy, Welfare Reform and Meaningful Work" (2003)