Why is meaningful work important in the workplace, and what can you do to make work more meaningful for your employees? How does it tie into employee engagement, and who is more likely to find meaning in their work? And what are the key factors for creating meaningful work?
When people find meaning in their work, this leads to positive business outcomes in performance, profits, satisfaction and more.
We cover the four key features of meaning, in work and in life, and how success – or failure – plays into a person’s satisfaction levels, plus the workplace contributors to wellbeing.
Learn more about why meaningful work really matters.
Employee engagement is known to drive quality and quantity of work, and is an excellent predictor of outcomes at work, but how does it relate to meaning at work?
Through our research, we uncovered the relationship between meaningful work and employee engagement.
What factors influence people to find their work meaningful and how much does our nature – or genetics – determine this?
We look at the characteristics of people who naturally find their work more meaningful, across personality and cognitive abilities.
What does the research show about meaningful work, and the factors that affect it?
We looked at an extremely wide range of industry sectors, and we measured a range of psychometric and psychological characteristics. Let’s take a look at the results of this study.
The research shows that there are many things that organisations can do to increase levels of meaning, including values matching, facilitative leadership and role clarity.
We share some practical ideas about how to help people find meaning at work, on an individual level, but also through leadership.