The Oxford Handbook of Meaningful Work
Edited by Ruth Yeoman, Catherine Bailey, Adrian Madden, and Marc Thompson
Author Information
Ruth Yeoman, Fellow, University of Oxford,Catherine Bailey, Professor of Work and Employment, King's College London,Adrian Madden, Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour, University of Greenwich,Marc Thompson, Senior Fellow, University of Oxford
Ruth Yeoman is a Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, where she leads a range of research projects applying meaningfulness and mutuality to work, organizations, and systems. Projects include 'The Meaningful City' and 'Values to Shared Value Creation in Sustainable Supply Chains'. For the Big Innovation Centre in London she led a collaboration including the Bank of England and the Office of National Statistics, investigating intangible assets and national wealth creation. Forthcoming publications include Ethical Organising: Meaningfulness and Mutuality in Organisational Design, to be published by Routledge in their Business Ethics series.
Katie Bailey is Professor of Work and Employment at King's Business School, King's College London. She has a PhD from London Business School and has held appointments there and at the Universities of Sussex, Kent, and Kingston. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Her research focuses on meaningful work, temporality, employee engagement, and strategic human resource management, and she has published widely on these topics in leading scholarly and practitioner journals. Publications include the second edition of Strategic Human Resource Management, published by Oxford University Press.
Adrian Madden is an Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at the University of Greenwich Business Faculty, where he is also Director of the Leadership & Organisational Behaviour research group. He has worked at the Universities of Sussex and Kent and previously worked in central government policy. Adrian's main research interests are meaningful work, time and organisations, and entrepreneurialism in the informal economy.
Marc Thompson is a Senior Fellow in Strategy and Organisation, Said Business School, University of Oxford, and Official Fellow, Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. His research interests have covered workplace change, high performance work systems, performance pay, meaningful work, and strategic renewal and innovation. He held posts in Sussex University and the London School of Economics before joining Oxford. He teaches in various degree and custom executive programmes, and is academic director of the Executive Masters, Consulting and Coaching for Change programme HEC/ University of Oxford.
Contributors:
Catherine Bailey, King's College, London
Ron Beadle, Northumbria University
Laura Boova, McKinsey & Company
Norman E. Bowie, University of Minnesota
Keith Breen, Queen's University
Katherine Brown-Saltzman, UCLA Health Ethics Center
Elizabeth Cavallaro, U.S. Naval War College
Neal Chalofsky, George Washington University
Jiatian (JT) Chen, California State University
Joanne B. Ciulla, Rutgers University
Matthew D. Deeg, The University of Kansas
Bryan J. Dik, Colorado State University
Ryan D. Duffy, University of Florida
Jessica England, University of Florida
Duncan Gallie, University of Oxford
Matthew Hall, Monash University
Nancy Harding, University of Bath
Heather Hofmeister, Goethe University Frankfurt
Thomas Hoge, University of Innsbruck
Jason Hughes, University of Leicester
Roberta J. Hunt, St Catherine University
Douglas A. Lepisto, Western Michigan University
Marjolein Lips-Wiersma, Auckland University of Technology
Evgenia I. Lysova, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Adrian Madden, University of Greenwich
Douglas R. May, The University of Kansas
Todd S. Mei, University of Kent
Christopher Michaelson, University of St. Thomas
Carol L. Pavlish, University of California Los Angeles
Michael G. Pratt, Boston College
Johannes Jacobus Redelinghuys, North-West University
Silke Roth, University of Southampton
Sebastiaan Rothmann, North-West University
Hui-Wen Sato, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Tatjana Schnell, University of Innsbruck
Catherine E. Schwoerer, The University of Kansas
Brad Shuck, University of Louisville
Ruth Simpson, Brunel Business School
Natasha Slutskaya, University of Sussex
Michael F. Steger, Colorado State University
Rebecca Taylor, University of Southampton
Marc Thompson, University of Oxford
Dennis Tourish, University of Sussex
Wolfgang G. Weber, University of Innsbruck
Laura Anne Weiss, North-West University
Ruth Yeoman, University of Oxford