Creating meaning at work in a context of dirty work

Construire le sens au travail dans un contexte de sale boulot

Emmanuel Coetard (), Amaury Grimand () and Laëtitia Pihel ()
Additional contact information
Emmanuel Coetard: LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - Nantes Univ - IAE Nantes - Nantes Université - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Sociétés - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université, IRG - Institut de Recherche en Gestion - UPEC UP12 - Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 - Université Gustave Eiffel
Amaury Grimand: LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - Nantes Univ - IAE Nantes - Nantes Université - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Sociétés - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université
Laëtitia Pihel: LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - Nantes Univ - IAE Nantes - Nantes Université - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Sociétés - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université, TEPP - Travail, Emploi et Politiques Publiques - UPEM - Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

Post-Print from HAL

Abstract: Drawing on the framework of job crafting, this article examines how individuals working in a ‘dirty work' context construct their relationship with their work in order to create meaning and reshape the narrative of what they do and who they are. The research, carried out within an industrial cleaning company, combines semi-structured interviews and phases of participant observation made possible by one of the authors working as a cleaner. The results highlight particularly active job crafting processes through which cleaners strive to restore meaning to their work and to free themselves from the stigma to which they are exposed.

Keywords: Job crafting; Meaning of/at work; Dirty work; Sale boulot; Sens du/au travail (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-04-29
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Published in Revue Française de Gestion, 2025, 2 (321), pp.119-140. ⟨10.1684/rfg.2025.74⟩

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05067814

DOI: 10.1684/rfg.2025.74

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Post-Print from HAL
Bibliographic data for series maintained by CCSD ().