Voicing Meaningfulness at Work

Marjolein Lips-Wiersma and Lani Morris

Chapter 39 in Handbook of Spirituality and Business, 2011, pp 324-333 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract “To be human is to search for a meaningful life.” It’s all very well to say this, but how do we attend to meaningful living? How do we stay in charge of our ability to make a conscious choice to live a meaningful life? How do we recognize when life is not meaningful, and then, what can we do about it? How can we share our search for meaning with others while retaining our unique identity? These questions have urgency because they relate to so many experiences and decisions in our working lives. In this chapter we describe a framework (Lips-Wiersma and Morris, 2009) that has been used in ten years of action research and has been peer-reviewed by our academic colleagues. We have found that using this framework enables people to have conversations about what is deeply meaningful in the workplace.

Keywords: Business Ethic; Meaningful Life; Meaningful Work; Workplace Spirituality; Conscious Choice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230321458_39

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