List of Contributors (2024)

Catherine Bailey

(née Truss) is Professor of Work and Employment at King’s Business School, King’s College London and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. She has previously held posts at the Universities of Sussex, Kent, and Kingston, and at London Business School, where she completed her PhD. Her research focuses on meaningful work, temporality, employee engagement, and strategic human resource management.

Ron Beadle

is Professor of Organization and Business Ethics at Northumbria University and Visiting Professor at the National Centre for Circus Arts. His research attempts to defend, apply, and extend Alasdair Macintyre’s moral philosophy in the context of organizations, and specifically the traveling circus. Ron has published in Business Ethics Quarterly, Organization Studies, the Journal of Business Ethics, and the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly among others.

Laura Boova

is an organizational consultant at McKinsey & Company. She works with clients across a variety of industries to improve organizational design to maximize efficiency as well as to address multiple drivers of organizational health such as organizational culture, employee engagement, and leadership. Laura has an MS in Organization Studies from Boston College and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame.

Norman E. Bowie

is Professor Emeritus at the University of Minnesota. He is past president of the Society for Business Ethics and former Executive Director of the American Philosophical Association. In 2009 the Society for Business Ethics honored him with an award for scholarly achievement. His primary research interest is business ethics, where he is best known for his application of Kant’s moral philosophy to ethical issues in business.

Keith Breen

is a political theorist lecturing at Queen’s University, Belfast. His general research areas are contemporary political and social theory, the current focus of his research being questions of political ethics and philosophies of work and economic organization. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and is the author of Under Weber’s Shadow: Modernity, Subjectivity and Politics in Habermas, Arendt and MacIntyre (2012). He is also co-editor of After the Nation? Critical Reflections on Nationalism and Postnationalism (2010), Philosophy and Political Engagement: Reflection in the Public Sphere (2016), and Freedom and Domination: Exploring Republican Freedom (2018).

Katherine Brown-Saltzman

is co-director and co-founder of UCLA Health Ethics Center. Her clinical practice originated in pediatric oncology and end-of-life care. Her research centers on timely assessment of and interdisciplinary interventions in clinical ethics issues. As the president and co-founder of Ethics of Caring, she established an annual National Nursing Ethics Conference. Katherine develops innovative programs, including Circle of Caring celebrating over twenty-five years of engaging clinicians in an experiential self-care program, Writing the Wrongs, an intervention for healing moral distress, and a clinical ethics fellowship. Katherine now writes poetry, allowing her to transform the suffering and grief she witnesses in the world.

Elizabeth Cavallaro

is Assistant Professor, Leader Development, at the US Naval War College (USNWC), College of Leadership and Ethics, in Newport, RI. She is a Certified Professional Coach, credentialed by the International Coach Federation, and is certified in a wide variety of assessment and facilitation tools. Her research interests include a range of topics, such as employee well-being, eudaimonia, mental complexity, and human development.

Neal Chalofsky

is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Human and Organizational Learning Department at the George Washington University, Washington, DC. His research and teaching focuses on meaningful work, workplaces with a values-based organizational culture, and increasing capacity for learning in adults. He is the author of Meaningful Workplaces: Reframing How and Where we Work.

Jiatian (JT) Chen

is an Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management at California State University, Bakersfield. The work of this chapter was completed while he was a PhD student at the University of Kansas. His current research includes career calling, meaningfulness at work, and organizational climates. For leisure, he enjoys running and traveling.

Joanne B. Ciulla

is Professor of Leadership Ethics and Director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers University. A BA, MA, and PhD in philosophy, she has published extensively on leadership ethics, business ethics, and philosophy of work. Some of her books include Ethics, The Heart of Leadership, Honest Work: A Business Ethics Reader, and The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work. She has also served as president of both the International Society for Business, Economics, and Ethics, and the Society for Business Ethics.

Matthew D. Deeg

is a PhD student in management at the University of Kansas, with an emphasis on organizational behavior. His research interests include positive organizational scholarship, the work/non-work interface, and the influence of multiple roles on human functioning and flourishing. He enjoys reading, refereeing soccer, cooking, and the company of his cats in his leisure time.

Bryan J. Dik, PhD,

is Professor of Psychology at Colorado State University and also co-founder and Chief Science Officer of jobZology. His undergraduate degree is from Calvin College and his PhD in Counseling Psychology is from the University of Minnesota. His primary areas of research include meaning and purpose in the workplace, calling and vocation in career development, and the intersection of faith and work.

Ryan D. Duffy

is an Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Florida. He graduated with a BA in Human Development and Philosophy from Boston College and an MA and PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Maryland. His primary areas of research are in vocational psychology and positive psychology, and specifically studies work as a calling and the psychology of working.

Jessica W. England

is a third year PhD student in the counseling psychology program at the University of Florida. She graduated with a BA in Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a MS in Counseling Psychology from Loyola University Maryland. Her primary areas of research are in vocational psychology, and she is currently studying the psychology of working.

Duncan Gallie

CBE FBA is an Emeritus Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford and Professor of Sociology in the University of Oxford. His research has involved comparative European studies of the quality of employment and of unemployment. Most recently, he has published on issues of inequality in work conditions, job insecurity, and participation at work. He has advised the French government as a member of an expert group on psychosocial risks at work. He was a member of the advisory committee of a recent OECD initiative to provide guidelines to national governments for monitoring the quality of work.

Matthew Hall

is Professor of Accounting at Monash University. His research interests relate to management accounting and performance measurement, with a specific focus on measuring value in difficult-to-measure contexts, such as in mutuals and cooperatives, nonprofits, and social enterprises. His work has been published in a variety of leading international journals in the accounting, management, and nonprofit fields. Prior to returning to Australia in 2016, Matthew worked for ten years at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nancy Harding

is Professor of Human Resource Management at University of Bath School of Management, UK, and director of its Future of Work research center. Nancy’s research is focused on working lives, which she studies from a broadly critical management studies perspective. She is interested in moving beyond traditional critical approaches that explore exploitation and control and resistance, and argues that we need to develop a language that allows us to be critical of the sheer tedium to which many people are subject while at work, and the effect of hierarchy (e.g. management/staff; leader/follower) on identities.

Heather Hofmeister

is full Professor for Sociology with a specialty in Sociology of Work at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, and is co-director of the Center for Leadership and Behavior in Organizations. After receiving her PhD from Cornell University, USA and before Frankfurt, she worked at Ithaca College, Bielefeld and Bamberg Universities, and accepted a professorship and vice-rector position at the RWTH Aachen University. She specializes in gender and life course research with special foci on science and leadership, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. She is also a CTI-trained Co-active coach.

Thomas Höge

works as a senior scientist at the Institute of Psychology, University of Innsbruck (Austria). He studied psychology and sociology at the University of Frankfurt/Main (Germany) and received his PhD from the Technical University of Munich (Germany). His research activities include psychological aspects of workplace flexibilization and subjectification of work, occupational health and well-being, and organizational democracy.

Jason Hughes

is Professor and Head of Media, Communication and Sociology at the University of Leicester, UK. His research interests include problematized consumption; drugs, addiction, and health; emotions, work, and identity; figurational sociology and sociological theory; methods and methodology; moral panics and regulation. Recent authored and co-authored books have focused on the sociology of Norbert Elias, visual methods, and archival research.

Roberta J. Hunt

is Professor Emeritus from St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN. Her clinical background focused on maternal child health and public health. She has published research, articles on program evaluation, and two textbooks, one published in five editions. Roberta’s passion has been to help nurses understand, appreciate, and address disparity in healthcare.

Douglas A. Lepisto

is an assistant professor in the Department of Management at the Haworth College of Business at Western Michigan University. His research explores social and cultural processes that generate meaningfulness, trust, and identity in organizations and occupations. He received his PhD in Organizational Studies from Boston College.

Marjolein Lips-Wiersma

has studied meaningful work for the past two decades. This research, while initially concentrating on individual career journeys, is increasingly focused on how to live a good life in response to eroding communities, increasing inequalities, and environmental degradation, and the role of paid work in this. She is Professor of Ethics and Sustainability and has published in journals such as Journal of Organizational Behavior, Leadership Quarterly, and the Journal of Business Ethics. She is also co-director of the Map of Meaning International, which aims to help people do work worth doing in organizations worth having.

Evgenia I. Lysova

is Assistant Professor of Careers and Organizational Behavior at the department of Management and Organisation at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is director of the VU Center for Meaningful Work. Her research primarily concerns calling, meaningful work, and careers. In addressing these research interests, she focuses on understanding how to create conditions that enable individuals to thrive in their careers and organizations and therefore to make meaningful contributions to their organizations and society as a whole. Her research has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Vocational Behavior and Career Development International.

Adrian Madden

is an Associate Professor at the University of Greenwich Business School where he is also Director of the Leadership & Organizational Behaviour Research Centre. Adrian’s other research interests include time and temporality in organizations; gender and the informal economy; and workplace mediation. He is a member of the editorial board of Work, Employment & Society.

Douglas R. May

received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and is a professor and the Bob Billings Director of the Center for Positive Ethics in Business at the University of Kansas. His research interests include positive organizational scholarship topics and ethical decision-making. Most recently, he has been exploring the meaningfulness experienced in client–regulatory interactions, the ethics surrounding meaningful work, and the ethical determinants and outcomes of job crafting. In his leisure time, he enjoys his cats, native plant gardening, and visiting botanical gardens.

Todd S. Mei

is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Kent (UK). His area of specialization is philosophical hermeneutics (Heidegger and Ricoeur), with interests in the philosophy of work, economics, and ethics. His current project focuses on understanding the production of meaning in work by way of an analogy to speech acts. He has two monographs: Heidegger, Work, and Being (Continuum 2009) and Land and the Given Economy (Northwestern University Press 2017).

Christopher Michaelson’s

first experiences of meaningful and meaningless work took place in the New York office of the Big Four firm where he began his career advising clients about business ethics. He is now Associate Professor and David A. and Barbara Koch (pronounced “coach”) Distinguished Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility at the University of St. Thomas, on the Business & Society faculty at New York University, and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network on Arts and Culture. His recent research examines meaningful work and capitalism using texts and methods from the humanities.

Carol L. Pavlish

is currently an Associate Professor in the University of California Los Angeles, School of Nursing and Professor Emerita at St. Catherine University in the United States. She was elected as a Fellow into the American Academy of Nursing. Her clinical background includes critical care and oncology nursing. She has published several research studies on preventing ethical conflicts and moral distress in clinical practice. Carol has also conducted research on gender-based violence and women’s health and human rights in South Sudan, Rwanda, and Uganda for the American Refugee Committee.

Michael G. Pratt

is the O’Connor Family Professor in the Management and Organization Department at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. His interests include how individuals connect with the work that they do, as well as to the organizations, professions, occupations, and other collectives in which they find themselves. He earned his PhD in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan.

Johannes Jacobus Redelinghuys

is a postdoctoral research fellow at Optentia Research Focus Area at the North-West University in South Africa. He holds a PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. His research interests include flourishing at work, meaningful work, person–environment fit, intention to leave, and performance.

Silke Roth

is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Southampton in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology. Her research interests include humanitarianism, development, social movement, and gender studies. Her book The Paradoxes of Aid Work: Passionate Professionals (Routledge 2015) analyzes the biographies and careers of people working in aid. Her articles have appeared in journals including Gender & Society, Interface, Journal of Risk Research, Social Politics, Third World Quarterly, and Sociological Research Online. In addition, she has published various edited volumes and book chapters. She belongs to the editorial board of Sociology.

Sebastiaan (Ian) Rothmann

is a Professor in Industrial Psychology and Director of the Optentia Research Focus Area at the North-West University in South Africa. Ian’s research interest is the assessment and development of human potential and flourishing in institutions in multicultural contexts. He is author or co-author of 197 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters in handbooks.

Hui-Wen Sato

is a pediatric critical care nurse at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, California, US. She has also conducted research in long-term care facilities seeking to improve quality of care and quality of life for residents by demonstrating the need for greater staffing. She is passionate about bringing to light the inner heart experiences of nurses, and speaks regularly at various nursing conferences. Her writing has been published in the American Journal of Nursing (AJN), and she is a regular contributor to AJN’s blog, “Off the Charts.” In September 2017, she gave a TEDxTalk entitled “How Grief Can Enable Nurses to Endure.”

Tatjana Schnell

is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and Adjunct Professor at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo (Norway). She studied Psychology, Theology, and Religious Studies in Göttingen (Germany), London (UK), Heidelberg (Germany), and Cambridge (UK) and received her PhD from Trier University (Germany). Her research is in existential psychology, with a focus on the conceptualization and measurement of meaning in life and the nexus of meaning and health, well-being, worldview, work and civic engagement. She is co-editor of the Journal of Happiness Studies and member of several editorial boards.

Catherine E. Schwoerer

received her PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An Associate Professor in the School of Business at the University of Kansas, her research interests include careers, learning, and well-being. She teaches organizational behavior, training, research methods, and business sustainability. Enthusiasms beyond academic life include cats, bees, and books.

Brad Shuck

is Associate Professor and Program Director of the Health Professions Education and Human Resources and Organizational Development programs in the School of Medicine and College of Education and Human Development at the University of Louisville. His primary areas of research include the application, meaning, and measurement of employee engagement, emerging areas of positive psychology, and leader development. Shuck is a Commonwealth Scholar, a member of the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels, and holds faculty affiliate status with the Department of Counseling and Human Development (UofL).

Ruth Simpson

is Professor of Management at Brunel Business School. Her research interests include gender and organizations; inequality and ‘dirty work’; and gender and careers. She has authored, co-authored, and co-edited several books including Gendering Emotions in Organizations (2007); Men in Caring Occupations: Doing Gender Differently (2009); Emotions and Transmigration (2011); Dirty Work: Concepts and Identities (2012); and The Oxford Handbook of Gender in Organizations (2014). She has had several editorial roles and has published in leading journals including Human Relations, Organization, Work Employment & Society, The Academy of Management (Learning and Education), Management Learning, and Gender, Work & Organization.

Natasha slu*tskaya

is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex’s School of Business, Management and Economics. Her research interests can be divided into two broad areas: stigma management (with a focus on ‘dirty work’ occupations) and equality, diversity, and inclusion at work (with a focus on social class). Natasha has published a co-edited book (Dirty Work: Concepts and Identities) and a co-authored book (Class, Gender and Occupation: Working Class Men doing Dirty Work) with Palgrave. Other publications include articles in Work, Employment & Society, Organization, and Gender, Work & Organization.

Michael F. Steger, PhD

is Professor of Psychology, and the Founding Director of the Center for Meaning and Purpose at Colorado State University. He conducts research and provides keynotes, lectures, workshops, and consulting around the world on the topics of meaning and purpose, leadership, psychological strengths, meaningful work, and creating a happy workplace.

Rebecca Taylor

is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Southampton in the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology. Her research interests are in work and organizations, and in particular conceptual debates about the nature of work, blurred boundaries between paid and unpaid work, and between work in different sectors and fields. She also has expertise in qualitative research methodologies and research ethics. She has published widely in journals such as Work Employment & Society, Policy and Politics, Sociological Review, and International Journal of Social Research Methodology.

Marc Thompson

is a Senior Fellow in Strategy and Organisation, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and Official Fellow, Green Templeton College, Oxford. He has a DSc from Helsinki University and MSc (Econ.) from the London School of Economics. His research interests include workplace change, high performance work systems, reward systems, the digital transformation of work, meaningful work, and strategic renewal and innovation. He held posts in Sussex University and the LSE before joining Oxford as a Research Fellow. He is Academic Director of the Executive Masters, Consulting and Coaching for Change program at HEC/Oxford.

Dennis Tourish

is Professor of Leadership and Organization Studies at the University of Sussex. He is the editor of the journal Leadership. He is also the author of The Dark Side of Leadership: A Critical Perspective, published in 2013, and is currently working on a new book entitled How Management Research Lost its Way, due to be published in 2019. He is currently conducting research into research fraud and malpractice in management studies, economics, and psychology.

Wolfgang G. Weber

is full Professor of Applied Psychology, Institute of Psychology at the University of Innsbruck (Austria). He is a co-founding member of the Organisational Participation in Europe network (OPEN) and of the journal Psychology of Everyday Activity. His research activities include publications about employee participation and democracy in organizations, socio-moral work climate, socialization of prosocial and civic behavior, humanization of work, and the development of work analysis instruments. He has also published on phenomena of social alienation based on concepts of Critical Theory and cultural-historical Activity Theory.

Laura Anne Weiss

works as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Optentia Research Focus Area at the North-West University in South Africa. She received her PhD degree in Positive Psychology on the topic of improving well-being in vulnerable groups at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. Her research interests are developing and evaluating positive psychology interventions, in line with self-determination theory, with the final goal to improve well-being in vulnerable groups.

Ruth Yeoman

is a Fellow of Kellogg College, University of Oxford. Her current research portfolio includes Ownership, Leadership, and Meaningful Work (British Academy/Leverhulme), Values to Shared Value Creation in Sustainable Supply Chains (John Fell), and the Meaningful City (Hermes Investment Management and the University of Tampere). She writes on the importance of meaningful work and researches the ethics and practice of mutuality in co-owned and conventionally owned enterprises. Her book, Meaningful Work and Workplace Democracy: A Philosophy of Work and a Politics of Meaningfulness (2014), was published by Palgrave. She is a member of the HM Treasury Council of Economic Advisers, an adviser for the Fabian Society’s Changing Work Centre, and a Fellow of the UK’s Big Innovation Centre. She is currently writing a monograph for the Routledge Business Ethics series called Ethical Organizing: Meaningfulness and Mutuality in Organization/System Design, to be published in 2019.

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