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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"meaningful work"”.
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Understanding the predictors and outcomes of meaningful work
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Towards Meaningful Work: A Preliminary Understanding of Career Paralysis
… to make a career change toward something more meaningful but, for several reasons, being unable to actually make a change. The goal of this research was to develop a preliminary working model of career paralysis through an in-depth exploration of peopleâ s in-situ experience of the phenomenon. …
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Intrinsic Reward and Temporal Disruption: When workers leave their meaningful work
Many workers pursue opportunities for their intrinsic rewards as well as their extrinsic rewards. Intrinsic rewards like meaningfulness – having a positive impact on others – is also a strong commitment device. Even in the face of low pay or unsafe working conditions, workers can justify staying …
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A meaningful work in a strained context - exploring midwives' work situation and professional role
Midwives report a challenging work situation globally with a work force shortage, which is a large challenge for health-care organisations and can influence midwives’ professional role. The overall aim of this thesis was to explore midwives’ work situation and professional role in relation to …
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Beyond profits: A multi-chapter computational analysis of corporate purpose, meaningful work, and societal outcomes
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Meaningful Circular Economy Jobs: Does Circular Economy Awareness Enable the Experience of More Meaningful Work?
… of jobs in the CE with a specific focus on meaningfulness. The research questions explore the key factors contributing to job meaningfulness in CE roles, the impact of heightened awareness of the CE on workers' perceived meaningfulness, and the mechanisms through which such awareness affects …
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Banking on Meaningful Work: How Organizations and Recipients Shape the Meaning of Helping Others Through Work
Despite a growing interest in meaningful work, current models have largely ignored the role of helping others in the construction of meaningful work, tending to focus instead on the role of personal dispositions, relationships, and the characteristics of job tasks. This is an important oversight …
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Development and validation of an instrument to measure the concept of occupational intimacy in relation to physician job satisfaction
… Intimacy: nurturing environment, love of work and meaningful work. A convenience sample of 380 physicians who actively practiced in the state of Colorado participated in this study. Development and testing of the concept Occupational Intimacy provided evidence to support the validity and …
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Using recognition to foster employee engagement at Rimbey Family and Community Support Services
… emerged: the need for a sense of belonging, meaningful work, feeling valued, and individualized recognition. The following conclusions arose from the inquiry: individualized recognition can enhance a sense of belonging, meaningful work resulted in feeling valued, and trusting relationships …
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Architecture: the making
… it significance, meaning. To make Building a meaningful work there needs to be an inherent structure, order, to the work. This order must be revealed and strengthened through <b>harmony</b>, <b>articulation</b>, and <b>rhythm</b>.
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Social Economy and Developmental Disabilities: An Employment Option that Promotes a Form of Authentic Work and Fosters Social Inclusion
… that are community-based provide typical workplace and geographical inclusion but tend not to support social inclusion and "belonging". This study explored the innovative employment alternative of social businesses and considered this form of employment for persons with a developmental …
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Essays in Applied Labor and Health Economics
… examines how the conditions and organization of work affect workers’ well-being and behavior, drawing on evidence from administrative and survey data within the Italian context. It focuses on two main dimensions of job quality: physical security and workers’ perceptions of the meaning of work. …
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Planning for the Margins: Mapping Conceptual Implications of Profound Intellectual Disability and Informality through Slovo Park, Johannesburg
… and global crises brought on by climate change, meaningful work and livable wages, generative AI, and future pandemics. This thesis focuses on the challenges of urban planning for and with people with profound and intellectual disabilities in informal and impoverished Global South contexts as an …
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Why Emirati Women Leave and What It Takes for Them to Stay: An Inquiry into Motivation, Culture, and Belonging in the UAE’s Private Sector
… explores the lived experiences of Emirati women working in the private sector in the United Arab Emirates, with a focus on understanding how these experiences shape perceptions of long-term career sustainability. Despite national efforts to increase private-sector participation among Emirati …
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WORKING HARD OR HARDLY WORKING? THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG WORK MEANINGFULNESS, HEAVY WORK INVESTMENT, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING
<p>Heavy Work Investment (HWI), the extent to which individuals invest energy and effort into doing their work, has recently been studied in regards to job-related outcomes and work-life conflict. However, research is negligible on the influence HWI (i.e., workaholism and work engagement) may have …
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Cooperating As Peers: Labor Justice Between Distributive and Relational Equality
Despite its relevance, work is underrepresented in debates about social justice. In this way, political philosophy remains distant from real people s lives, and cannot address objectionable forms of work. The thesis contributes to fill in this gap, addressing the problem of labor justice with …
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Teaching Along the Way: an Ethnographic Study of Faculty Growth and Sensemaking on the Camino De Santiago
… ethnographic methods included six years of field work in Spain, participant observation as faculty program director, and in-depth interviews with faculty leaders. The findings show that participants engaged in sensemaking through three theoretical constructs. The construct of family addresses …
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Introducing a relational approach to the study of emotions in project teams: The case of a public–non-profit partnership programme
… this study unravels the ‘actuality’ of programme work at both collective and individual levels. At the collective level, the results from the thematic analysis of data highlight emotions during the ever-changing flux of events as the team ceaselessly engage in sense-making with the hope to …
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Entrance=Eingang
… traditional architectural elements into a meaningful work of contemporary architecture without negatively effecting the genius loci. It is essential for architecture to have meaning that is evident so that people can identify with architecture. People can identify more easily with …
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TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AS NARRATIVE AND MORAL PRACTICE. CULTIVATING RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION IN AI-DRIVEN START-UPS
… and teams. Then, the analysis leads to frameworks in which responsibility is cultivated as a collective practice and conflicting responsibilities are addressed through dialogical and practical means, thereby aligning innovation with personal fulfilment and meaningful work. Within this …
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