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...

By combining a positivistic and an interpretive approach, this research investigates the learning opportunities that contemporary industrial work processes and workplaces offer for employees individually and collectively. The research explores how employees can become trained through their work...