This handbook examines the concept, practices, and effects of meaningful work in organisations and beyond. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, it reflects diverse scholarly contributions from philosophy, political theory, psychology, sociology, organisational studies, and economics.

Part I: The Philosophy of Meaningful Work 1: Joanne B Ciulla: The Moral Conditions of Work 2: Norman E. Bowie: Dignity and Meaningful Work 3: Keith Breen: Meaningful Work and Freedom: Self-Realization, Autonomy, and Non-Domination in Work 4: Ron Beadle: Work, Meaning, and Virtue 5: Todd S. Mei: Work and the Meaning of Being 6: Neal Chalofsky and Elizabeth Cavallaro: To Have Lived Well: Well-Being and Meaningful Work Part II: Processes of Meaningfulness 7: Christopher Michaelson: Do We Have to Do Meaningful Work? 8: Nancy Harding: Identity and Meaningful/Meaningless Work 9: Adrian Madden and Catherine Bailey: Self-Transcendence and Meaningful Work 10: Tatjana Schnell, Thomas Höge, and Wolfgang G. Weber: 'Belonging' and Its Relationship to the Experience of Meaningful Work 11: Laura Boova, Michael G. Pratt, and Douglas A. Lepisto: Exploring Work Orientations and Cultural Accounts of Work: Towards a Research Agenda for Examining the Role of Culture in Meaningful Work 12: Michael F. Steger: Meaning in Life and In Work Part III: The Experience of Meaningful Work 13: Ruth Simpson, Natasha Slutskaya, and Jason Hughes: Meanings and Dirty Work: A Study of Refuse Collectors and Street Cleaners 14: Carol L. Pavlish, Roberta J. Hunt, Hui-wen Sato, and Katherine Brown-Saltzman: Finding Meaning in the Work of Caring 15: Rebecca Taylor and Silke Roth: Exploring Meaningful Work in the Third Sector 16: Ryan D. Duffy, Jessica England, and Bryan J. Dik: Callings 17: Brad Shuck: Does My Engagement Matter?: Exploring the Relationship Between Employee Engagement and Meaningful Work in Theory and Practice 18: Heather Hofmeister: Work Through a Gender Lens: More Work and More Sources of Meaningfulness 19: Dennis Tourish: Leadership and Meaningful Work Part IV: Contexts and Boundaries of Meaningful Work 20: Douglas R. May, Jiatian (JT) Chen, Catherine E. Schwoerer, and Matthew D. Degg: Fostering the Human Spirit: A Positive Ethical Framework for Experiencing Meaningfulness at Work 21: Duncan Gallie: Direct Participation and Meaningful Work: The Implications of Task Discretion and Orgnizational Participation 22: Matthew Hall: Accounting for Meaningful Work 23: Evgenia I. Lysova: Meaningful Work and Family: How Does the Pursuit of Meaningful Work Impact One's Family? 24: Marjolein Lips-Wiersma: Does Corporate Social Responsibility Enhance Meaningful Work? A Multi-Perspective Theoretical Framework 25: Sebastiaan Rothmann, Laura Anne Weiss, and Johannes Jacobus Redelinghuys: Cultural, National and Individual Diversity and their Relationship to the Experience of Meaningful Work 26: Marc Thompson: Bringing Political Economy Back-in: A Comparative Institutionalist Perspective on Meaningful Work 27: Ruth Yeoman: The Meaningful City: Towards a Theory of Public Meaningfulness, City Institutions and Civic Work

Interdisciplinary approach to meaningful work, demonstrating the range and depth of scholarly thinking from theoretical and empirical disciplines Examines the application of meaningfulness to work, organizations, and systems Provides inspiration for new organizational practices and applications of meaningfulness which will be of interest to both academics and practitioners Up to date and authoritative research, providing an overview of the topic and identifying new directions for research

Ruth Yeoman is a Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, where she leads a range of research projects applying meaningfulness and mutuality to work, organizations, and systems. Projects include 'The Meaningful City' and 'Values to Shared Value Creation in Sustainable Supply Chains'. For the Big Innovation Centre in London she led a collaboration including the Bank of England and the Office of National Statistics, investigating intangible assets and national wealth creation. Forthcoming publications include Ethical Organising: Meaningfulness and Mutuality in Organisational Design, to be published by Routledge in their Business Ethics series. Katie Bailey is Professor of Work and Employment at King's Business School, King's College London. She has a PhD from London Business School and has held appointments there and at the Universities of Sussex, Kent, and Kingston. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on meaningful work, temporality, employee engagement, and strategic human resource management, and she has published widely on these topics in leading scholarly and practitioner journals. Publications include the second edition of Strategic Human Resource Management, published by Oxford University Press. Adrian Madden is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the University of Greenwich Business Faculty, where he is also Director of the Leadership & Organisational Behaviour research group. He has worked at the Universities of Sussex and Kent and previously worked in central government policy. Adrian's main research interests are meaningful work, time and organisations, and entrepreneurialism in the informal economy. Marc Thompson is a Senior Fellow in Strategy and Organisation, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and Official Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. His research interests have covered workplace change, high performance work systems, performance pay, meaningful work, and strategic renewal and innovation. He held posts in Sussex University and the London School of Economics before joining Oxford. He teaches in various degree and custom executive programmes, and is academic director of the Executive Masters, Consulting and Coaching for Change programme HEC/ University of Oxford.

Interdisciplinary approach to meaningful work, demonstrating the range and depth of scholarly thinking from theoretical and empirical disciplines Examines the application of meaningfulness to work, organizations, and systems Provides inspiration for new organizational practices and applications of meaningfulness which will be of interest to both academics and practitioners Up to date and authoritative research, providing an overview of the topic and identifying new directions for research