Measuring the Meaning of Meaningful Work

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Fostering meaningful work in organizations: A multi-level review and integration (2019, background): “The authors suggest that the experiences of meaningful work involve tensions between the need to meet the needs of the self and the need to meet the needs of others; and the need for being as well as the need for doing (Lips-Wiersma & Morris, 2009; Lips-Wiersma & Wright, 2012).”
A Review of the Empirical Literature on Meaningful Work: Progress and Research Agenda (2018, background): “In a similar vein, research has also suggested that finding meaningfulness in work may be effortful, challenging or difficult (e.g., Bailey & Madden, 2016; Lips-Wiersma & Wright, 2012).”
Unravelling the antecedents of loneliness in the workplace (2020, background): “For example, giving to others is a component of meaningful work (Lips-Wiersma and Wright, 2012) and may in a eudaimonic sense compensate for unfulfilled relationships at work; for example, aid work.”
The mismanaged soul: Existential labor and the erosion of meaningful work (2017, unknown): “…connection either with co-workers, clients or the public has been advocated in order to meet people’s need for belonging and selfesteem (Grant, 2007; Lips-Wiersma & Wright, 2012; Pratt et al., 2013), together with encouraging high levels of person-job fit (Pratt & Ashforth, 2003; Scroggins, 2008;…”