On the meaning of work: A theoretical integration and review

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Values at Work: The Impact of Personal Values in Organisations (2019, background): “Work orientations reflect the way in which people think about work (Rosso et al., 2010).”
When Job Performance is All Relative: How Family Motivation Energizes Effort and Compensates for Intrinsic Motivation (2017, background): “Even though family motivation is unlikely to make tedious work itself more interesting, it gives meaning to work such that employees see work as a way of supporting and sustaining those who are most important to them (Rosso et al., 2010).”
The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages (2018, neutral): “There is little evidence about compensating differentials associated with meaningful work, though there is research on wages and job satisfaction among workers at non-profit firms (e.g., Preston, 1989; Leete, 2001; Benz, 2005; Rosso et al., 2010).”
Beyond intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: A meta-analysis on self-determination theory’s multidimensional conceptualization of work motivation (2021, positive): “Second, the importance of identified regulation for employee outcomes is in line with, and contributes to the reviving of, research on the meaning of work (Allan et al., 2019; Rosso et al., 2010).”