Add to ORKGScholars have identified benefits of viewing work as a calling, but little research has explored the notion that peopleare frequently unable to work in occupations that answer their callings. To develop propositions on how individuals experience and pursue unanswered callings, we conducted a qualitative study based on interviews with 31 employees across a variety of occupations. We distinguish between two types of unanswered callings—missed callings and additional callings—and propose that individuals pursue these unanswered callings by employing five different techniques to craft their jobs (task emphasizing, job expanding, and role reframing) and their leisure time (vicarious experiencing and hobby participating). We also propose that ind...
Two groups of people are particularly inclined to mention a calling when talking about their work mo...
Scholarly interest in callings is growing, but our understanding of how and when callings relate to ...
There are different conceptualizations of work. Work can be seen as unpleasant but necessary to make...
There is a limited body of research that illuminates the various positive life-, health-, and work-r...
Recent research on calling has pointed to the important distinction between having and living a call...
Recent research on calling has pointed to the important distinction between having and living a call...
How people talk about their work and careers matters. Desiring meaningful work, people increasingly ...
Career calling is a pervasive, purposeful, transcendent, and passion-driven approach to a job that i...
With this article, we open a special issue of the Journal of Vocational Behavior on “Calling and Car...
Career calling is a positive construct that describes how much individuals see their work as a meani...
The purpose of this study was to examine the cognitive, affective, and behavioral outcomes of callin...
My dissertation consists of two essays that focus on the construct of work calling. In Essay 1, I in...
The recent decade has seen a growing interest in the concept of career calling that can be broadly u...
People are increasingly in search for meaning in their work and private life. They want to increase ...
Employees increasingly search for jobs in which they can pursue their preferences and interests – mo...
Two groups of people are particularly inclined to mention a calling when talking about their work mo...
Scholarly interest in callings is growing, but our understanding of how and when callings relate to ...
There are different conceptualizations of work. Work can be seen as unpleasant but necessary to make...
There is a limited body of research that illuminates the various positive life-, health-, and work-r...
Recent research on calling has pointed to the important distinction between having and living a call...
Recent research on calling has pointed to the important distinction between having and living a call...
How people talk about their work and careers matters. Desiring meaningful work, people increasingly ...
Career calling is a pervasive, purposeful, transcendent, and passion-driven approach to a job that i...
With this article, we open a special issue of the Journal of Vocational Behavior on “Calling and Car...
Career calling is a positive construct that describes how much individuals see their work as a meani...
The purpose of this study was to examine the cognitive, affective, and behavioral outcomes of callin...
My dissertation consists of two essays that focus on the construct of work calling. In Essay 1, I in...
The recent decade has seen a growing interest in the concept of career calling that can be broadly u...
People are increasingly in search for meaning in their work and private life. They want to increase ...
Employees increasingly search for jobs in which they can pursue their preferences and interests – mo...
Two groups of people are particularly inclined to mention a calling when talking about their work mo...
Scholarly interest in callings is growing, but our understanding of how and when callings relate to ...
There are different conceptualizations of work. Work can be seen as unpleasant but necessary to make...