INTERPERSONAL SENSEMAKING AND THE MEANING OF WORK

By Amy Wrzesniewski, Jane E. Dutton, Gelaye Debebe. 2003

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Job Crafting and Cultivating Positive Meaning and Identity in Work (2013, background): “For example, Wrzesniewski, Dutton, and Debebe (2003) describe the relational crafting undertaken by hospital cleaners who choose to interact with, care for, and provide comfort to patients and their families, even though this work is not part of their jobs.”
Discouraging Bullying: The Role of Ethical Leadership and its Effects on the Work Environment (2010, background): “For example, the literature on job crafting argued that leaders indeed have an important influence on how jobs are designed (Wrzesniewski et al., 2003).”
Weekly job crafting and leisure crafting: Implications for meaning‐making and work engagement (2017, background): “Employees often use cues, input, or information from others at work in order to craft a new or altered meaning about their work (Wrzesniewski et al., 2003).”
The Crafting of Jobs and Individual Differences (2008, background): “And, as Wrzesniewski et al. (2003) point out, this may be only part of the picture as nearly every person engaged in work is interacting with other people (e.g., customers, subordinates, co-workers) and the relationships help to form the social fabric, context, and content of the job.”
The significance of task significance: Job performance effects, relational mechanisms, and boundary conditions. (2008, background): “Scholars have begun to challenge this conclusion as premature, calling attention to the dearth of knowledge about the role of job characteristics and social cues in shaping employees’ experiences of interpersonal relationships (Humphrey et al., 2007; Latham & Pinder, 2005; Morgeson & Humphrey, 2006;”