What Makes Work Meaningful—Or Meaningless (Bailey / Madden article, 2016)
Bailey, C., & Madden, A. (2016). What Makes Work Meaningful—Or Meaningless. MIT Sloan Management Review . https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/what-makes-work-meaningful-or-meaningless/ meaningful work = highly desirable work .. more often that not.. more than money what's the point of doing this job? quality of leadership received virtually no mention when people described meaningful moments at work .... but poor management was the top destroyer of meaningfulness 5 qualities sought for meaningfulness Self-Transcendent when it mattered to others more than just to themselves; talking about the impact that one's work has on others, neighbours, community Poignant nurses who described moments of profound meaningfulness when they were able to use their professional skills and knowledge to ease the passing of patients at the end of their lives when someone had triumphed in difficult circumstances or had solved a complex, intractable problem. Episodic having moments when you