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Voicing Meaningfulness at Work

In: Handbook of Spirituality and Business

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  • Marjolein Lips-Wiersma
  • Lani Morris

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“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.

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  • Marjolein Lips-Wiersma & Lani Morris, 2011. "Voicing Meaningfulness at Work," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Luk Bouckaert & Laszlo Zsolnai (ed.), Handbook of Spirituality and Business, chapter 39, pages 324-333, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-32145-8_39
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230321458_39
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