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 given research that suggests that work is a major avenue through which people can improve the lives of others, and that individuals value the opportunity to help others though work. The purpose of this research, therefore, is to build and elaborate theory concerning the relationships between meaningful work and helping others.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Business Adminstration

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Cardador, Maria Teresa

Contributors dc:contributor

• Pratt, Michael

• Business Administration, Management
• Psychology, Industrial
• Sociology, Organizational

Identifier

(UMI)AAI3362744

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/72300