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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.