HR
M. Catalina Enestrom
IESE Business School, Spain
Ryan Vogel
Fox School of Business, Temple U., United States
In light of the wide-ranging benefits of meaning-making in the workplace, and employees’ desire to experience meaningful work, it is important that researchers understand the different ways that people experience meaning in their work and the factors that can promote meaning in work. While prior research has provided initial insights, a large percentage of employees still do not find their work to be meaningful. This symposium assembles some of the latest research that investigates work meaningfulness, providing possible solutions for how to overcome the current lack of meaning in work. In doing so, the contributions of this symposium include: (1) Proposing work meaning as being empirically distinct from work meaningfulness and testing a model of work meaning relevant for the modern workplace; (2) Reconceptualizing the work orientations literature to suggest job, career, and calling as three separate dimensions of how employees experience their work; (3) Suggesting moderators that can allow employees to experience an often negative work situation (i.e., work absurdity) as meaningful; and (4) Providing self-oriented and other- oriented mechanisms that explain how beneficiary contact promotes work meaningfulness.
Author: M. Catalina Enestrom – IESE Business School
Author: Anneloes M. L Raes – IESE Business School
Author: Felipe Moreno – -
Author: Samuel Mortimer – Saïd Business School U. of Oxford
Author: Katherine Klein – U. of Pennsylvania
Author: Felipe Moreno – -
Author: Ryan M. Vogel – Fox School of Business, Temple U.
Author: Anneloes M. L Raes – IESE Business School
Author: Evgenia Lysova – Vrije U. Amsterdam
Author: Nishat Babu – Loughborough Business School, Loughborough U., UK
Author: Lakshmi Chandrasekaran – Marsh & McLennan Companies