A systematic review of meaningful work unifying 20 years of theoretical and substantive contributions (2000–2020)

KL Tan, AKS Sim, SSN Yap, S Vithayaporn… - Journal of Advances in …, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose Meaningful work is gaining importance in the core domains of human resources
research. However, there is confusion regarding what constitutes meaningful work and its …

Proactive personality and career adaptability of Chinese female pre-service teachers in primary schools: the role of calling

Y Wen, F Liu, L Pang, H Chen - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Career adaptability has attracted extensive attention from international scholars as one of
the important factors predicting the future sustainability of individuals. Proactive personality …

How does empowering leadership motivate employee innovative behavior: A job characteristics perspective

Y Guo, Y Peng, Y Zhu - Current Psychology, 2023 - Springer
Drawing on self-determination theory and job characteristics theory, this study proposed a
theoretical hypothesis model to explore the mediating and moderating mechanisms of …

Called to serve: Exploring the relationship between career calling, career plateaus, and organizational commitment in the US military

MS DiRenzo, J Tosti-Kharas… - Journal of Career …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Experiencing career as a calling has implications for an individual's career trajectory; yet,
little is known about whether calling relates to career plateaus, which have the potential to …

Meaningful work, work and life satisfaction: Spanish adaptation of Work and Meaning Inventory Scale

I Duarte-Lores, G Rolo-González, E Suárez… - Current …, 2023 - Springer
Meaningful work is the subjective experience that work has meaning and is understood as
an avenue for personal development, from a eudaimonic point of view. The aim of this study …

The effect of corporate social responsibility on employee advocacy behaviors: a perspective of conservation of resources

Z Liu, Y Guo, J Liao, Y Li, X Wang - Chinese Management Studies, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose Despite past studies revealed the positive effect of corporate social responsibility
(CSR) on consumer advocacy behavior, little research has paid attention to employee …

Why do people work? An empirical test of hybrid work orientations

L Pitacho, PJ da Palma, P Correia, MP Lopes - Social Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The present study analyzed whether one's work orientation can be organized into work
orientation profiles beyond the three pure orientations of job, career, and calling. We tested …

Entrepreneurial role models and college students' entrepreneurial calling: A moderated mediation model

D **, X Liu, F Zhang, Z Wen - Frontiers in psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction College entrepreneurship education should not only cultivate a group of college
students who have strong willingness to start a business immediately after graduation, but …

Distributed leadership and new generation employees' proactive behavior: roles of idiosyncratic deals and meaningfulness of work

S Xu, H Zhang, Y Dai, J Ma, L Lyu - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Calling and job involvement: the role of prosocial motivation in the performance of mission-driven organization

HC Chen, IH Chen, CTS Ng - The Journal of General Psychology, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Previous studies suggested that individuals with prosocial motivation have better job
performance in mission-driven organizations. However, the mediating mechanisms …