Purpose – This aim of the paper is to explore regenerative work supporting employees' personal development and, thus, sustainable coping capacity in the post‐bureaucratic transition. Design/methodology/approach – A comprehensive literature review was carried out to build a theoretical...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to conceptualize employees' sustainable work abilities, or their long‐term adaptive and proactive abilities to work, farewell at work, and contribute through working. Sustainable work is defined as to promote the development in personal resources leading to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to increase understanding of the ways workers can actively make their own work experiences more meaningful. Design/methodology/approach – The data consist of 29 interviews with people from three professions. The authors analyzed the interviews by coding...

This new edition tackles all the latest developments and integrates practical perspectives with rigorous research to shed light on a vital aspect of working life. Focusing on developing the human and social resources within an organization, this book provides the basis for designing and...

A work system may be said to exhibit social sustainability if it utilizes its human, social, economic, and ecological resources with responsibility. This entails using these resources in a non-exploitive way, regenerating them, and paying due attention to the needs and ambitions of its...

What the world needs now is sustainable work systems / Peter Docherty, Mari Kira and A.B. (Rami) Shani -- Organizational visions of sustainability / Keith Cox -- The interface journey to sustainability : identity dynamics within cultural incrementalism / Mona Amodeo -- Sustainability in...