What makes work meaningful - or meaningless?

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A Review of the Empirical Literature on Meaningful Work: Progress and Research Agenda (2018, background): “Similarly, Bailey and Madden (2016) found that employees’ perception of their work tasks as pointless contributed to a sense of meaninglessness.”
Fostering meaningful work in organizations: A multi-level review and integration (2019, background): “T career-related outcomes, few reviews have specifically addressed this issue (for exceptions, see Bailey, Madden, Alfes, Shantz, & Soane, 2017; Pratt & Ashforth, 2003; Pratt et al., 2013).”
A Normative Meaning of Meaningful Work (2019, background): “Such work is often considered to be “self-transcendent” (e.g., Bailey and Madden 2016) or to be “greater than oneself” (e.g., Rosso et al.”
The Effect of Fairness, Responsible Leadership and Worthy Work on Multiple Dimensions of Meaningful Work (2018, background): “Because empowerment, self-determination, and control have been found to significantly enhance MFW (Bailey and Madden 2016a, b, c) and these are supported by shared leadership (Yun et al.”