“I’m Not Mopping the Floors, I’m Putting a Man on the Moon”: How NASA Leaders Enhanced the Meaningfulness of Work by Changing the Meaning of Work

By Andrew M. Carton. 2018

231 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management

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In Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

1. Ryan D. Duffy
2. B. Allan
3. Bryan J. Dik
4. M. Steger
5. Catherine Bailey
6. A. Madden
7. Evgenia I. Lysova
8. Abbie J. Shipp

In Strategy and Management

1. Karen J. Jansen
2. M. Thompson
3. Catherine Bailey
4. Abbie J. Shipp
5. B. Allan

Citations in the corpus

• A Review of the Empirical Literature on Meaningful Work: Progress and Research Agenda (2018, background): “Wiersma & Wright, 2012; Mather, 2008), thereby aligning with debates in the HRD field (Chalofsky, 2010). In one qualitative study conducted in the healthcare sector, Pavlish and Hunt (2012), for instance, found meaningful work to be linked with feelings of accomplishment, growth, happiness and bless”
• The “Other” Time: A Review of the Subjective Experience of Time in Organizations (2020, background): “or with enduring values and ultimate aspirations (Carton, 2018), both of which highlight the importance of retrospection and anticipation—key subjective time concepts.”
• Fostering meaningful work in organizations: A multi-level review and integration (2019, background): “Carton (2017) explained that employees' work meaning might have changed through the process of John F. Kennedy coaxing NASA's ultimate aspirations and that this meaning was a precursor to employees' meaningful work, which points to the value of leaders acting as “architects”.”