Positive Work Practices. Opportunities and Challenges in Designing Meaningful Work-related Technology
This addresses the challenge of enhancing meaning in the workplace for workers, but it is incremental as it builds on existing research in meaningful work.
The paper tackles the problem of designing work-related technology to increase meaningful work, proposing a wellbeing-driven approach and demonstrating positive results through two case studies.
Work is a rich source of meaning. However, beyond organizational changes, most approaches in the research field of Meaningful Work neglected the power of work-related technology to increase meaning. Using two cases as examples, this paper proposes a wellbeing-driven approach to the design of work-related technology. Despite the positive results of our cases, we argue that the use of technology as a means of increasing meaning in the workplace is still in its infancy.