Meaningful Work: Connecting Business Ethics and Organization Studies
Meaningful Work: Connecting Business Ethics and Organization Studies
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DOI：
10.1007/s10551-013-1675-5
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发表时间：
2014-04-01
影响因子：
6.1
通讯作者：
Dunn, Craig P.
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作者：
Michaelson, Christopher;Pratt, Michael G.;Dunn, Craig P.
在人类寻求意义的过程中，工作占据着中心位置。大多数成年人醒着的大部分时间都花在工作上，这通常是目标，责任感和身份的主要来源。鉴于这些对员工及其组织的好处，组织学者越来越有兴趣了解有助于有意义工作的因素，如工作设计，人际关系，组织使命和文化。在另一条调查路线中，经济伦理学的学者们将有意义的工作作为一个涉及他人和我们自己管理的道德问题进行了研究，探索是否存在我们拥有道德权利的有意义的工作的可定义特征，以及是否存在我们自己和他人履行这些权利的道德义务。在这篇文章中，我们研究了这两个学科的性质，原因和有意义的工作的后果的当代发展;我们探索这些学科之间的联系;我们提供的结论和研究机会，关于执行和提供有意义的工作的伦理和组织的角度的接口。
In the human quest for meaning, work occupies a central position. Most adults spend the majority of their waking hours at work, which often serves as a primary source of purpose, belongingness, and identity. In light of these benefits to employees and their organizations, organizational scholars are increasingly interested in understanding the factors that contribute to meaningful work, such as the design of jobs, interpersonal relationships, and organizational missions and cultures. In a separate line of inquiry, scholars of business ethics have examined meaningful work as a moral issue concerning the management of others and ourselves, exploring whether there are definable characteristics of meaningful work to which we have moral rights, and whether there are moral duties to ourselves and others to fulfill those rights. In this article, we examine contemporary developments in both disciplines about the nature, causes, and consequences of meaningful work; we explore linkages between these disciplines; and we offer conclusions and research opportunities regarding the interface of ethical and organizational perspectives on performing and providing meaningful work.