Work as Meaning: Individual and Organizational Benefits of Engaging in Meaningful Work

By M. Steger, Bryan J. Dik. 2009

158 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Demography, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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In Demography

1. Ryan D. Duffy
2. Bryan J. Dik
3. B. Allan
4. M. Steger
5. T. Beehr
6. Minseop Kim
7. Evgenia I. Lysova
8. Andrew Marty

In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Ryan D. Duffy
2. B. Allan
3. T. Beehr
4. Minseop Kim
5. Bryan J. Dik
6. M. Steger
7. Andrew Marty
8. Evgenia I. Lysova

Citations in the corpus

• Meaningful Work, Job Resources, and Employee Engagement (2021, background): “In effect, meaningfulness provides the psychological bridge that connects an employee’s experience of their work and their level of engagement [10].”
• Organization-Based Self-Esteem and Meaningful Work Mediate Effects of Empowering Leadership on Employee Behaviors and Well-Being (2018, background): “Several studies argued that deriving meaning from work experiences is related to overall positive experiences such as life satisfaction (e.g., Myers & Diener, 1995; Steger & Dik, 2010; Steger et al., 2012).”
• The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages (2018, background): “Meaningful work is “underrepresented in current models and measures of work characteristics” (Fairlie, 2011) but has received attention among organizational psychologists and sociologists (e.g., Smyer and Pitt-Catsouphes, 2007; Matz-Costa et al., 2017; Steger and Dik, 2012; Steger et al., 2012).”
• Thriving on demand: Challenging work results in employee flourishing through appraisals and resources. (2020, unknown): “Some studies argued that meaningful work is related to overall positive experience and judgement about one’s life (Judge & Watanabe, 1994; Steger & Dik, 2010; Steger, Dik, & Duffy, 2012).”
• Fostering meaningful work in organizations: A multi-level review and integration (2019, background): “…opposes their efforts to build the individual-level factors autonomy, motivation, or volition, as well as their expression of personal strengths or embrace of purposeful goal strivings through work (cf. Allan et al., 2016; Barrick et al., 2013; Fouché et al., 2017; Littman-Ovadia & Steger, 2010).”