Meaningful Workplaces: Reframing How and Where We Work

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The Elements of Meaningful Work

 

INTRINSIC MOTIVATION and personal and professional growth are two aspects of individual and organizational behavior that are more critical today than when first proposed and advocated by the legendary motivation theorists Maslow, Hersberg, and Aldefer. In our desire to assist workers and organizations to be more productive, we have forgotten our roots as human resource and organization development professionals, as well as managers and leaders. There are two reasons this is important:

1. In our rush to get to performance (the end goal), we keep neglecting the importance of the means to the end.

2. Traditional paradigms around issues such as organizational structure, management style, and employee benefits ...