Work meaningfulness and effort [PDF]
Journal of Behavioral and Experimental EconomicsSelf-determination theory posits that individuals are motivated at work when their inherent psychological needs for competence, autonomy, and relatedness are satisfied. Drawing on this theory, this paper presents a new conceptual model explaining how work meaningfulness influences effort at work.
Femke Cnossen, Milena Nikolova
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Linkages Between Transformational Leadership, Work Meaningfulness and Work Engagement: A Multilevel Cross-Sectional Study [PDF]
Psychology Research and Behavior Management, 2022 Fanxing Meng,1 Yongsheng Xu,1 Yiliang Liu,2 Guozan Zhang,3 Yunze Tong,4 Rong Lin1 1Zhejiang Police College, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, People’s Republic of China; 2College of Economics and Management, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, People ...
Meng F +5 more
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Care for Joy: Evaluation of a Humor Intervention and Its Effects on Stress, Flow Experience, Work Enjoyment, and Meaningfulness of Work [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 The media increasingly speak of a care crisis. Systematic support is needed to prepare nursing apprentices for the high demands of their profession and to reduce the number of nurses who finally quit. Particularly in stressful jobs like nursing, humor as
Marek Bartzik +8 more
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A Moderated Mediation Model of Self-Concept Clarity, Transformational Leadership, Perceived Work Meaningfulness, and Work Motivation [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of self-concept clarity in predicting employees’ perceived work meaningfulness. We proposed a moderated mediation model in which perceived work meaningfulness could mediate the relationship between ...
Sunyoung Oh, Sang-Choong Roh
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Meaningfulness in the Work of Language Professionals [PDF]
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2022 This qualitative study explores the changes that a specific group of knowledge workers – language professionals in Finland – have undergone in their work and how they perceive the meaningfulness of their work as a result.
Jenni Virtaluoto, Satu Selkälä
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Distributed Leadership and New Generation Employees’ Proactive Behavior: Roles of Idiosyncratic Deals and Meaningfulness of Work [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 New generation employees have become the main force of the organization, and their proactive behavior directly affects the organization’s future development. How to effectively stimulate the proactive behavior of new generation employees has become a hot
Shuhui Xu +5 more
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Psychological context of work meaningfulness [PDF]
Psychology and its Contexts, 2014 There is a significant shift of approach to the management of organizations and workers in recent decades. This shift in management philosophy is characterized by converting from traditional, conventional (rather bureaucratic) management models to rather
Karel Paulík +4 more
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“It was clear to me that nothing else would make me happy” – a qualitative, type-building interview study on meaningfulness and motivation in medical studies at two medical faculties [PDF]
GMS Journal for Medical EducationObjective: The aim of this study was to qualitatively describe the relationships between the experience of meaningfulness, crises of meaning and the motivation of medical students.
Felix Albrecht +5 more
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Automation of Routine Work: A Case Study of Employees' Experiences of Work Meaningfulness [PDF]
, 2021 The idea of automation replacing humans in the workplace has been given considerable attention, while less attention has been afforded to how people develop a meaningful work life with automation of routine work.
Kjeld Hansen +6 more
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Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, 2021 PurposeRobots have a history of replacing human labor in undesirable, dirty, dull and dangerous tasks. With robots now emerging in academic and human-centered work, this paper aims to investigate psychological implications of robotizing desirable and socially rewarding work.Design/methodology/approachTesting the holistic stress model, this study ...
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