Pub Date : 2019-01-10DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198788232.013.22
H. Hofmeister
This chapter argues that the definition of work, and its meaningfulness potential, broaden when using a gender perspective. The historical legacy of gender differentiation in work results in blindness to activities that are “work” and to gender inequality within kinds of work. An inclusive definition of “work” would be activities or thoughts that affirm life and growth, imagine or create the future, or abate or delay death and decay. At least nineteen types of work are identified: formal paid work; informal paid work; crowdwork; unpaid on-call or overtime work; networking; volunteering; political advocacy; informal helping; caregiving; emotion work; kinkeeping work; housework; consumer work; archival work; hired work on the self; aesthetic work; self-branding; self-care; and slavery. A gender-sensitive definition of meaningful work would be activities that are consciously experienced as aligned with deeply held values, taking into consideration that values and gender norms that can influence values are socially constructed.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-10DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198788232.013.3
K. Breen
One value invoked in arguments for taking meaningful work seriously as an ethical aspiration, and for rearranging our working practices to accommodate this aspiration, is that of individual freedom. This appeal typically takes three forms. The first, drawing from an Aristotelian ideal of human flourishing, appeals to freedom conceived as self-realization. The second centers on freedom understood in the sense of personal autonomy or self-determination. The third appeals to freedom conceived as non-domination, which is deemed a precondition for enjoying self-realization and self-determination in work. These freedom-based claims for institutionalizing and maintaining meaningful work are compelling both in normative and empirical terms. Moreover, they are in no way undermined by counterclaims to the effect that meaningful work is not an appropriate public policy concern or that the ideals of self-realization and autonomy can be harnessed to legitimize exploitative work arrangements.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-10DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198788232.013.14
C. Pavlish, R. Hunt, Hui‐wen Sato, K. Brown-Saltzman
This chapter is a reflective examination of the experience of meaningfulness in nursing, which reveals the meaning of care work, as well as what makes caring work meaningful. Through a series of provocative narratives, the authors expose deeply personal explorations of meaningful moments in caring work, challenging basic assumptions about the link between meaningfulness in work and happiness, and the importance of “opportunity structures” for worker and patient interaction. Meaningfulness is eroded where work becomes overly centered on tasks rather than relationships, as well as struggles over the value and primacy of patient care over patient medicalization and bureaucracy. Resonating with Frankl’s claim that people find meaning through suffering, the authors discuss the power of meaningful work in helping nurses to find their vocation and a meaningful life.
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Pub Date : 2019-01-10DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198788232.013.9
N. Chalofsky, E. Cavallero
This chapter draws on Aristotelian thinking to differentiate between hedonic and eudaimonic understandings of well-being. A sense of purpose and meaning are fundamental to the more profound experience of eudaimonic well-being, which is associated with authenticity and living in accordance with one’s “true self.” A framework for well-being and meaningfulness is proposed which highlights the interactive effects between the two. Fundamental to both is a sense of self, the work performed by individuals, and the workplace itself. Framing eudaimonic well-being as a fundamental, overarching aim of living, the chapter argues that our work is a significant and influential factor in how we live, and the search for meaningful work is an inherent part of our pursuit of the life well lived.
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Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDHB/9780198788232.013.8
A. Madden
Self-transcendence is a concept often evoked in different approaches to meaningful work, but which lacks clarity. This chapter considers how the subjective experience of meaningful work, centering on significance and purpose, gives rise to the idea of meaningfulness as the realization of human potential, by connecting the inner and the outer life along spiritual and social dimensions. It points to a conceptualization of self-transcendence that places greater emphasis on the intersubjective nature of meaningfulness. This raises questions such as: if meaningfulness is self-transcendent, where and how is meaning created? If transcendence denotes “beyondness” of the here and now, what does this mean in terms of the nature of work tasks and roles? If self-transcendence is an ineffable, transitory state, what might this mean for research into meaningful work? A shift in the emphasis of future research is necessary if we are to understand the self-transcendent nature of experienced meaningfulness.
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