Meaningful work is a topic of importance in core domains of human resource development
(HRD) such as employee engagement, motivation, and personal development. However …

Purpose Virtually all contemporary scientific papers studying careers emphasize its
changing nature. Indeed, careers have been changing during recent decades, for example …

Using job characteristics theory as a framework, we calculated meta‐analytic effect sizes
between meaningful work and various outcomes and tested a mediated model of …

Background: Depression, anxiety and stress are common problems for modern workers.
Although having meaningful work, or work that is significant, facilitates personal growth, and …

The present study investigated relations between basic psychological need satisfaction
(autonomy, relatedness, and competence), autonomous motivation, and work meaning. With …

The aim of the current research was to examine whether manipulating task significance
increased the meaningfulness of work among students (Study 1), an online sample of …

Purpose Grounding our research in the conservation of resources (COR) theory and the job
demands-resources (JD-R) theory, this study addresses the research gap of examining the …

The job characteristics model (JCM) predicts that task significance and work meaningfulness
are related to greater job performance and that meaningfulness mediates the relation …

Job boredom is a common experience at work; however, it has been neglected in research
and practice compared to other well-being states. Based on the person-job fit theory, this …

The goals of this study were to examine the relations between underemployment,
meaningful work, and well-being and evaluate whether the relation between …