Surviving bench stress: Meaningful work as a personal resource in the expanded job demands-resources model

Meng, Liang; Du, Juan; Lin, Xinyue

doi:10.1007/s12144-022-02956-9

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“…Specifically, virtue of organization and virtue of colleagues are consistent with the virtue stimuli proposed by Keltner and Haidt (2003). Perceived meaningfulness also shares similarities with the virtue stimuli, because people engaging in meaningful work often display human goodness or other strength of character (Meng et al, 2022). Ability and achievement of organization, ability and achievement of colleagues, dedication of colleagues and personal growth and achievement are all consistent with Keltner and Haidt's (2003) ability stimuli; beauty of workplace and charisma of colleagues align with Keltner and Haidt's (2003) beauty stimuli.…”

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Understanding awe elicitors in the workplace: a qualitative inquiry

Meng

2022

JMP

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PurposeDespite its practical importance, the emotion of awe has received scant research attention in the organizational literature. To facilitate future scholarship on this important topic, the authors explore and compare the elicitors of awe at work in three countries representing two culture clusters, including the USA and Canada (the Anglo cluster) and China (the Confucian Asia cluster).Design/methodology/approachThe authors gathered responses from 163 working adults from the USA and Canada and 126 working adults from China using open-response survey, and analyzed each response following the guidance of grounded theory.FindingsAcross cultures, there are 10 common elicitors of awe, including virtue of organization, ability and achievement of organization, beauty of workplace, virtue of colleagues, ability and achievement of colleagues, dedication of colleagues, charisma of colleagues, status and power of colleagues, personal growth and achievement and perceived meaningfulness. Looking within cultures, the authors found two awe elicitors that are specific to China: status and power of organization, and work content.Practical implicationsOrganizations and supervisors wishing to induce the emotion of awe would be well-advised to pay attention to the design of their workplace, as well as their attitudes and behaviors toward employees, customers and the general public.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the emotion literature, organizational literature and cross-cultural literature by demonstrating elicitors of awe in the workplace across the Anglo cluster and the Confucian Asia cluster.

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Understanding awe elicitors in the workplace: a qualitative inquiry

Meng

2022

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“…Buffering roles of meaningful work in counseling trainees have not been addressed thus far to our best knowledge. Nevertheless, our findings are aligned with some studies that identified personal resources as buffering moderators in the relationship between risk factors and outcomes (e.g., Cheung et al., 2019; Mehta & Sharma, 2021), given that meaningful work is considered a crucial personal resource (Benitez et al., 2023; Meng et al., 2023). Our findings showed that the higher the meaningful work of counseling trainees, the weaker the negative relationship between their academic burnout and career choice satisfaction.…”

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Counseling trainees’ academic burnout, meaningful work, and career choice satisfaction: A resilience framework

Um,

Seon

2024

The Career Development Quart

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This study focused on examining counseling trainees’ perceptions of meaningful work as a resilience factor against decreased career choice satisfaction, which is related to burnout experience. As a result of latent moderated structural equation modeling, academic burnout and meaningful work were significantly related to career choice satisfaction. Furthermore, meaningful work significantly buffered the negative relationship between academic burnout and career choice satisfaction. Our findings suggest that meaningful work plays both compensatory and protective roles against the negative effect of academic burnout on career choice satisfaction. We provided implications for counselor training and preparation.

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“…While meaning in life was frequently discussed in social psychology and psychiatry literatures, it rarely caught the research attention of organizational psychology scholars. As was explicitly indicated in the COR theory, to most individuals a sense of purpose and meaning in life is among the commonly valued resources (Hobfoll et al, 2018; Meng et al, 2022). In this study, we found that helplessness at work brought by the critical incidents employees were faced with in work settings may spill over to the life domain and negatively influence their meaning in life, which illustrates the importance of examining meaning in life in future work–life conflict/balance studies.…”

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How can employees break free from helplessness in critical work incidents?

Meng¹,

Lin²,

Du³

et al. 2022

International Journal of Stress Management

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Critical incidents, defined as traumatic time-limited events, often happen unexpectedly, and have largely impacted employees in many ways. In this study, we apply the conservation of resources theory as our overarching framework to examine whether and when employees involved in a critical work incident would experience helplessness at work, which may consequently spill over into the life domain and negatively impact their well-being. Taking the COVID-19 as a typical example of critical incidents, we collected multiwave data from 765 Chinese doctors. The results showed that perceived COVID-19 event strength is positively related to doctors' helplessness at work, which further negatively impacts their presence of meaning in life. Besides, meaningful work exacerbates the effect of perceived COVID-19 event strength on doctors' helplessness, while social support and psychological detachment reduce the negative impact of helplessness on their presence of meaning in life. Our study calls attention to protection of the mental health and psychological well-being of employees faced with critical incidents at work and their psychological recovery, and sheds light on the effectiveness of social support and psychological detachment as resource replenishing mechanisms, while cautions against further emphasizing work meaningfulness to employees confronted with a highly novel, disruptive, and critical work event.

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Surviving bench stress: Meaningful work as a personal resource in the expanded job demands-resources model

Cited by 14 publications

References 48 publications

Understanding awe elicitors in the workplace: a qualitative inquiry

Understanding awe elicitors in the workplace: a qualitative inquiry

Counseling trainees’ academic burnout, meaningful work, and career choice satisfaction: A resilience framework

How can employees break free from helplessness in critical work incidents?

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