IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/sprchp/978-3-031-35494-6_10.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Inside Job: Exploring Meaningful Work Through Creative-Spiritual Agency

In: The Palgrave Handbook of Fulfillment, Wellness, and Personal Growth at Work

Author

Listed:
  • Jeannel E. King

    (Saybrook University)

Abstract

This chapter explores the possibilities of creative-spiritual agency (CSA) as a pathway for individuals to find meaning in their work, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapter begins by setting the context for meaningful work and examining two models developed by Western researchers to understand it. The author introduces CSA as a new cross-disciplinary construct for organizational change research and discusses its potential to help individuals find meaning in their work. The theoretical and definitional underpinnings of CSA are explored, followed by examples of CSA in action and suggestions for cultivating and applying CSA at work. The chapter concludes with possibilities for future study and an invitation to collaborate. In a world where the pandemic has disrupted traditional models of work and forced individuals to reconsider their priorities, the exploration of CSA offers a new perspective on what it means to have meaningful work and how individuals can achieve it.

Suggested Citation

  • Jeannel E. King, 2023. "Inside Job: Exploring Meaningful Work Through Creative-Spiritual Agency," Springer Books, in: Joan Marques (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Fulfillment, Wellness, and Personal Growth at Work, chapter 0, pages 183-208, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-35494-6_10
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35494-6_10
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-35494-6_10. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.