University as a workplace: searching for meaningful work

Riivari, Elina; Malin, Virpi; Jääskelä, Päivikki; Lukkari, Teija

doi:10.1080/13562517.2018.1563061

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“…A mixed-methods study of a large Finnish multidisciplinary research university found contributing factors to meaningful work in the university context included sharing knowledge, collegial viewpoints, and learning (Riivari et al, 2020). However, there are workload and workplace tensions in the university context, impacting scholarly success and well-being.…”

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Well-Being Literacy in the Academic Landscape: Trioethnographic Inquiry Into Scholarly Writing

Narelle Lemon,

Jacqui Francis,

Lisa M. Baker

2024

Brock Education Journal

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Writing well and being well as academic writers is rarely spoken about, often hidden, and at times evaded. We believe that developing, maintaining, and growing well-being literacy not only engages the act but also allows awareness, reflection, and metacognitive thinking that enable mindful writing for well-being. Well-being literacy, the capacity to understand and employ well-being language for personal, collective, and global well-being, intrigues us. It encompasses nurturing, sustaining, and safeguarding well-being for individuals, groups, and systems to thrive. As scholars delving into well-being literacy, we, a diverse collective from across higher education career trajectories, investigate its role in scholarly writing and our academic realities. Our focus lies in unraveling the paradoxes inherent in higher education, particularly as researchers and writers. In this paper, we examine our own stories as a trioethnography and the impact of our writing practices on our own professional and personal lives. By doing so, we reveal the place of vulnerability, relationships, and meaning in who we are and are becoming as academic scholars. Guiding principles are shared with peers and colleagues in how they might cultivate writing practices while valuing and embodying well-being in the higher education space.

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Section: Meaningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Well-Being Literacy in the Academic Landscape: Trioethnographic Inquiry Into Scholarly Writing

Narelle Lemon,

Jacqui Francis,

Lisa M. Baker

2024

Brock Education Journal

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“…In this context, organizations enhance the requirement of employees’ proactive behavior. Managers expect employees to break the work limits, and independently identify, analyze, and solve problems, to help organizations resist external risks and maintain a competitive advantage ( Riivari et al, 2020 ; Xu et al, 2021 ). Promoting proactive employee behavior emerges as a key solution to navigating the uncertainties and rapidly changing demands of modern work environments, enhancing job satisfaction and mitigating negative outcomes ( ALGaraawi and Rashid, 2023 ).…”

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Influence of mentoring on the proactive behavior of new employees: moderated mediation effect of agreeableness

Yang,

Wang,

Choi

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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ObjectiveIn recent years, faced with a complex economic development environment and the evolving dynamics of the Chinese workplace, talent has become a precious resource that is invaluable yet scarce for every enterprise. As Generation Z employees have gradually entered the labor market, they contribute new perspectives and energies to various enterprises and pose unique challenges. The traditional step-by-step approach no longer meets the needs of today’s businesses. Companies require more proactive talents to drive superior performance. Individuals with proactive behavior can effectively plan their career paths and are better equipped to fulfill core organizational tasks. Therefore, it is crucial for organizations to effectively mitigate the perceived negative impacts of proactive behavior, encouraging individuals to exhibit more positive proactive actions.MethodsBased on the proactive motivation model, this study investigates the effects of mentoring, balanced psychological contract, proactive behavior, and agreeableness on the proactive behaviors of new employees. The research surveyed 417 new employees from Guangdong Province, China, who had graduated within the last three years, with a gender distribution of 49.4% male and 50.6% female.ResultsStructural Equation Modeling was used for data analysis, and the following results were obtained: First, mentoring positively affected the balanced psychological contract and new employees’ proactive behavior. Second, mentoring positively affected the new employees’ proactive behavior through the balanced psychological contract. Third, agreeableness played a moderating role in the relationship between mentoring and new employees’ proactive behavior, and in the relationship between mentoring and the balanced psychological contracts. Finally, the positive indirect effect of mentoring through the balanced psychological contract on new employees’ proactive behavior is positively moderated by agreeableness.ConclusionThe results of this study offer new insights into mentoring research for new employees and provide practical guidance for fostering the balanced psychological contract and proactive behavior among new employees. This research enriches the existing literature on mentoring for new employees by demonstrating the integral roles of agreeableness and a balanced psychological contract in fostering proactive behavior, offering valuable insights for organizational practices aimed at enhancing employee proactivity.

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“…In this vein, organizations enhance the requirement of employees’ proactive behavior. Managers expect employees to break the work limits, and independently identify, analyze, and solve problems, to help organizations resist external risks and maintain a competitive advantage ( Riivari et al, 2020 ). However, with the economic development of society and changes in work methods, the traditional authoritative style of leadership can no longer adapt to the psychological characteristics of new generation employees, who use new work concepts, techniques, and social rules ( Fang et al, 2019 ).…”

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Distributed Leadership and New Generation Employees’ Proactive Behavior: Roles of Idiosyncratic Deals and Meaningfulness of Work

Zhang

Dai

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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New generation employees have become the main force of the organization, and their proactive behavior directly affects the organization’s future development. How to effectively stimulate the proactive behavior of new generation employees has become a hot topic in the field of organizational management. Based on the integrated perspective of social exchange and self-enhancement, we constructed a multistep mediation model to explore the influence mechanism of distributed leadership on the proactive behavior of new generation employees. We designed a three-stage research method of supervisor-employee pairing to collect data from 26 supervisors and 304 new generation employees in a new energy vehicle company in East China. Results indicated that (a) distributed leadership is positively related to proactive behavior of new generation employees; (b) idiosyncratic deals and meaningfulness of work mediated the linkage between distributed leadership and new generation employees’ proactive behavior; (c) idiosyncratic deals and meaningfulness of work play a multistep mediation role between distributed leadership and new generation employees’ proactive behavior. These findings have theoretical implications for the proactive behavior literature and managerial implications for practitioners.

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University as a workplace: searching for meaningful work

Cited by 9 publications

References 43 publications

Well-Being Literacy in the Academic Landscape: Trioethnographic Inquiry Into Scholarly Writing

Well-Being Literacy in the Academic Landscape: Trioethnographic Inquiry Into Scholarly Writing

Influence of mentoring on the proactive behavior of new employees: moderated mediation effect of agreeableness

Distributed Leadership and New Generation Employees’ Proactive Behavior: Roles of Idiosyncratic Deals and Meaningfulness of Work

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