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The Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work

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The Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work examines the concept, practices and effects of meaningful work in organizations and beyond. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume reflects diverse scholarly contributions to understanding meaningful work from philosophy, political theory, psychology, sociology, organizational studies, and economics. In philosophy and political theory, treatments of meaningful work have been influenced by debates concerning the tensions between work as unavoidable and necessary, and work as a source of self-realization and human flourishing. This tension has come into renewed focus as work is reshaped by technology, globalization, and new forms of organization. In management studies, much empirical work has focused on meaningful work from the perspective of positive psychology, but more recent research has considered meaningful work as a complex phenomenon, socially constructed from interactive processes between individuals, and between individuals, organizations, and society. This Handbook examines meaningful work in the context of moral and pragmatic concerns such as human flourishing, dignity, alienation, freedom, and organizational ethics. The collection illuminates the relationship of meaningful work to organizational constructs of identity, belonging, callings, self-transcendence, culture, and occupations. Representing some of the most up to date academic research, the editors aim to inspire and equip researchers by identifying new directions and methods with which to deepen scholarly inquiry into a topic of growing importance.

Author Biography:

Ruth Yeoman is a Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, where she leads a range of research projects applying meaningfulness and mutuality to work, organizations, and systems. Projects include 'The Meaningful City' and 'Values to Shared Value Creation in Sustainable Supply Chains'. For the Big Innovation Centre in London she led a collaboration including the Bank of England and the Office of National Statistics, investigating intangible assets and national wealth creation. Forthcoming publications include Ethical Organising: Meaningfulness and Mutuality in Organisational Design, to be published by Routledge in their Business Ethics series. Katie Bailey is Professor of Work and Employment at King's Business School, King's College London. She has a PhD from London Business School and has held appointments there and at the Universities of Sussex, Kent, and Kingston. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on meaningful work, temporality, employee engagement, and strategic human resource management, and she has published widely on these topics in leading scholarly and practitioner journals. Publications include the second edition of Strategic Human Resource Management, published by Oxford University Press. Adrian Madden is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the University of Greenwich Business Faculty, where he is also Director of the Leadership & Organisational Behaviour research group. He has worked at the Universities of Sussex and Kent and previously worked in central government policy. Adrian's main research interests are meaningful work, time and organisations, and entrepreneurialism in the informal economy. Marc Thompson is a Senior Fellow in Strategy and Organisation, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and Official Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. His research interests have covered workplace change, high performance work systems, performance pay, meaningful work, and strategic renewal and innovation. He held posts in Sussex University and the London School of Economics before joining Oxford. He teaches in various degree and custom executive programmes, and is academic director of the Executive Masters, Consulting and Coaching for Change programme HEC/ University of Oxford.
Release date NZ
January 15th, 2019
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Adrian Madden
  • Edited by Catherine Bailey
  • Edited by Marc Thompson
  • Edited by Ruth Yeoman
Pages
534
Dimensions
171x246x37
ISBN-13
9780198788232
Product ID
28770284

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