What Is a Meaningful Workplace?
The Great Place to Work Institute, originators of the 100 Best Companies to Work for list, defines a great place to work as a place where employees “trust the people they work for, have pride in what they do, and enjoy the people they work with”—and that a great workplace is measured by the quality of the three interconnected relationships existing there:
1. The relationship between employees and management
2. The relationship between employees and their jobs and company
3. The relationship between employees and other employees (2009 Great Place to Work Institute website, www.greatplacetowork.com/great/index.php)
This all sounds like common sense, but as Jeffrey Pfeffer (1998) has pointed out in his book ...
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