Meaningful Work

Ciulla, Joanne B.

doi:10.1002/9781118785317.weom020145

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“…It is also a source of personal satisfaction (Tablan, 2015). According to Ciulla (2015), meaningful work refers to work that is worthwhile, significant and satisfying and that is conducive to personal growth, self-efficacy, self-esteem, belongingness and well-being. Yeoman (2014) defines meaningful work from the human needs perspective, which emphasises the role of freedom, autonomy and dignity.…”

Section: Good Organisations and Meaningful Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feeling Good and Being Inspired on Campus

Riivari¹,

Malin²,

Jääskelä³

et al. 2019

Business Ethics and Care in Organizations

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Theories related to good and caring organisations have gained interest amongst researchers. In particular, the concept of meaningful work has been under discussion recently in academia.This study contributes to knowledge of the concept of meaningful work by examining it from the perspective of good and caring organisations in the higher education context. Our focus in this chapter is on the positive opportunities individual lecturers have to make their own work meaningful and to promote their students' experiences of meaningfulness. The empirical findings are based on the analysis of qualitative data collected from a management course with special attention to relational features, such as dialogue, collaboration and communication, that have been found to be crucial to meaningful work and good organisations.

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Section: Good Organisations and Meaningful Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feeling Good and Being Inspired on Campus

Riivari¹,

Malin²,

Jääskelä³

et al. 2019

Business Ethics and Care in Organizations

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“…According to Ciulla (2015), meaningful work describes work that is worthwhile, significant, satisfying and conducive to personal growth, self-efficacy, self-esteem, belongingness and well-being. Yeoman (2014) defines meaningful work from the perspective of human needs, emphasizing the role of freedom, autonomy and dignity.…”

Section: Meaningful Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

University as a workplace: searching for meaningful work

Riivari

Malin

Jääskelä

et al. 2018

Teaching in Higher Education

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Work in academia is changing, and research suggests that not all the changes are desirable.Higher education is developing in a direction heavily criticised, especially in relation to the concepts of neoliberal and academic capitalism. In this article, we explore meaningful work in a university context. Our focus lies on individual lecturers' positive opportunities to make work meaningful and the university a better place to work for both students and faculty. We examine meaningful work as a relational phenomenon: how meaningfulness is constructed through features such as dialogue, expertise, interaction and sharing of ideas. Our empirical findings are based on analysis of qualitative and quantitative data collected in a business school management course deliberately developed to promote cooperation, interaction and shared learning as central tenets of meaningful work. Both faculty members' and students' perspectives on meaningful work are discussed.

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“…Another may be the feeling that one wishes to 'give back' after having been the recipient of a social service or simply good fortune oneself (Ruskin, Seymour and Webster, 2016). Others may feel that in becoming a sustainability entrepreneur they are fulfilling their destiny or calling (Hall and Chandler, 2005;Bunderson and Thompson, 2009).…”

Section: Other-oriented Motivesmentioning

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Sustainability startups and where to find them

Tiba¹

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The scholarly literature has so far paid limited attention to responsibility by commercial entrepreneurs. This paper compares responsible entrepreneurship (RE) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) scholarship in order to identify future fields of research. For this purpose, we assess the strengths and weaknesses of extant RE scholarship through the lens of CSR. We have reviewed 11,260 papers via Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) for our work. We find that existing responsible entrepreneurship literature places disproportionate emphasis on how firms can benefit society instead of on how contributions to sustainable development can benefit a firm. Furthermore, the responsible entrepreneurship literature pays limited attention to employee wellbeing, customer preference as well as civil society as a stakeholder. Also, environmental issues and their balancing with financial and social issues remain relatively under-researched. Overall, we hope that scholarly works inspired by this study may ultimately help to ensure responsible behaviour of start-ups.

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Meaningful Work

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

Feeling Good and Being Inspired on Campus

Feeling Good and Being Inspired on Campus

University as a workplace: searching for meaningful work

Sustainability startups and where to find them

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