Browsing by Subject "työn merkityksellisyys"
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(2020)Work meaningfulness has been under increasing interest in the field of organizational psychology during the last years. Stronger experience of work meaningfulness have been found to correlate for example with job satisfaction, work engagement and workplace commitment. Due to these benefits, the organizations have also started to realize the importance of ensuring the meaningfulness of work for employees. However, the scholars lack mutual agreement of ways of increasing work meaningfulness. The goal of this thesis is to provide further knowledge of these means by integrating existing theoretical and empirical literature. This thesis was conducted as a review. The main sources of the thesis were recent review articles and empirical studies. Furthermore, this thesis investigates large number of theoretical papers on work meaningfulness. The primary database of references used in this review was Google Scholar. Research findings suggest that employee work meaningfulness can be improved in multiple ways. Based on the review, organizational ways of increasing meaningfulness are possible on the areas of job design, social environment and organizational practices. In particular, the studies demonstrate the importance of job crafting and task significance. Moreover, organizational culture and climate seem to correlate with experienced meaningfulness. All in all, based on this thesis, the importance of a holistic approach to work meaningfulness can be emphasized. Finally, the review highlights the importance of conducting more research based on meaningful work, especially with empirical and longitudinal settings. This additional research would greatly help organizational scholars to put the accumulated knowledge into practice.
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(2018)The purpose of this research is to provide qualitative information about what makes work meaningful to millenials. At the moment, there is a lot discussion about meaningful work and millenials’ perceptions about it. Therefore, it is important to understand how millennials understand meaningful work and that is what I aim to describe in this study. As a theoretical background I use Marjolein Lips-Wiersma and Sarah Wrights’ (2012) framework about the construction of meaningful work. In addition, I will present former research connected to millenials’ perceptions of meaningful work and researchers’ propositions on how to develop meaningfulness of work. This study has been conducted by interviewing three students. All of them studied in University of Helsinki and at the time of interviews they were 20-24 years old. All of the interviews were recorded and transcribed in order to ensure accurate and truthful description of results. The analysis was conducted with the help of content analysis: first by identifying relevant parts from interviews and then by grouping findings based to its theme. The analysis revealed that interviewed millennials had different approaches to meaningfulness of work. Other interviewees approached meaningfulness of work through work’s purpose and goals. However, one of the interviewees viewed works’ goal only as one component among others that are constructing meaningfulness of work. Millenials saw good working atmosphere, opportunity to develop oneself and working for common advantage as elements that construct the experience of meaningful work. The results of this study describe millenials’ perceptions about meaningful work and their expectations about their future jobs. This information can be utilized in practice for example in work design, leadership and recruiting.
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